Research Line: Ecology of Marine Ecosystems

Cristian Aldea Venegas is Marine Biologist graduated in the University of Concepción (Chile), where also he attended a Diplom in Analysis and Environmental Management, specifically in center EULA-Chile. Later on, he achieved his doctorate in Biology of the Organisms and Ecosystems in the University of Vigo (Spain).

His research area is the study of molluscs (mainly Gastropods and bivalves) by means of the systematics applied to the search of ecological processes and patterns of diversity and distribution. His doctoral thesis aimed the characterization of molluscs of the Bellingshausen Sea (Antarctica).

PUBLICATIONS

ALDEA, C., J. OLAVE & C. VALDOVINOS (2002) Descripción de la concha de Cumingia mutica Sowerby 1833 (Bivalvia, Semelidae) de la costa chilena. Boletín de la Sociedad de Biología de Concepción, Chile 73: 77-82.

VALDOVINOS, C., C. ALDEA & M. PETRILLO (2003) Diversidad de moluscos intermareales de Chile central. Estudio comparativo entre las islas Mocha y Santa María y la costa de Chile central. En: DELLA CROCE, N. & C. VALDOVINOS (Eds.). I Coastal Islands Beaches Survey. DIPTERIS, Universita di Genova, Italia, pp. 15-22.

ALDEA, C. & C. VALDOVINOS (2005) Moluscos del intermareal rocoso del Centro - Sur de Chile (36º-38º S): Taxonomía y clave de identificación. Gayana 69(2): 364-396.

TRONCOSO, J.S., C. ALDEA, F.J. GARCÍA, P.M. ARNAUD & A. RAMOS (2007) Quantitative analysis of soft bottom Molluscs in Bellingshausen Sea and around Peter I Island. Polar Reseach 26: 126-134.

ALDEA, C., C. OLABARRIA & J.S. TRONCOSO (2008) Bathymetric zonation and diversity gradient of gastropods and bivalves in West Antarctica from the South Shetland Islands to the Bellingshausen Sea. Deep-Sea Research I 55(3): 350-368.

TRONCOSO, J.S. & C. ALDEA (2008) Macrobenthic mollusc assemblages and diversity in West Antarctica from the South Shetland Islands to the Bellingshausen Sea. Polar Biology 31: 1253-1265.

ALDEA, C. & C. VALDOVINOS (2008) Índice bibliográfico sobre biodiversidad acuática de Chile: Moluscos Archaeogastropoda recientes. Ciencia y Tecnología del Mar - CONA 31(1): 105-116.

CARDENAS, J., C. ALDEA & C. VALDOVINOS (2008) Chilean marine Mollusca of the northern Patagonia collected during the Cimar-10 Fjords cruise. Gayana 72(2): 202-240.

VALDOVINOS, C., J. CÁRDENAS, C. ALDEA, M. AZÓCAR, P. PEDREROS & M. HENRÍQUEZ (2008) Biodiversidad marina en el norte de la provincia magallánica (43º49’- 41º32’S): composición y patrones especiales de diversidad de moluscos submareales. Ciencia y Tecnología del Mar - CONA 31(2): 109-121.

ALDEA, C. & J.S. TRONCOSO (2008) Systematics and distribution of shelled mollusks (Gastropoda, Bivalvia and Scaphopoda) from the South Shetland Island to the Bellingshausen Sea, West Antarctica. Iberus 26(2): 43-117.

ALDEA, C., D.G. ZELAYA & J.S. TRONCOSO (2009) Two new trochids of the genus Antimargarita (Gastropoda: Vetigastropoda: Trochidae) from the Bellingshausen Sea and South Shetland Islands, Antarctica. Polar Biology 32: 417-426.

ALDEA, C., C. OLABARRIA & J.S. TRONCOSO (2009) Spatial patterns of benthic diversity in molluscs from West Antarctica. Antarctic Science 21: 341–353.

ALDEA, C. & J.S. TRONCOSO (2010) Remarks on the genus Trophon (s.l.) Montfort, 1810 (Mollusca: Gastropoda: Muricidae) in the Southern Ocean and adjacent areas. Thalassas (3), Special issue: 43-69.

ALDEA, C., G. DIAZ-AGRAS, O. GARCÍA-ÁLVAREZ, J. MOREIRA, M. RODRIGUES, R.R. TATO, V. URGORRI & J.S. TRONCOSO (2010) Deep-sea macrobenthic diversity and assemblages of “A SELVA” (NW Iberian Peninsula): first approach from samples taken aboard R/V Sarmiento de Gamboa. Thalassas 25(3), Special issue: 169-179.

MOREIRA, J., C. ALDEA & J.S. TRONCOSO (2010) Temporal dynamics of gastropod fauna on subtidal sandy sediments of the Ensenada de Baiona (NW Iberian Peninsula). Helgoland Marine Research, DOI 10.1007/s10152-009-0186-3 (Online first)

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