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Mr Giulio Valentino Dalla Riva

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Department: Mathematics and Statistics

Email: giulio.dallariva@canterbury.ac.nz

Direct Dial: +64 3 3690278

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Languages: English, Italian, French, Spanish

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Fields of Research

  • Data Scientific approaches to Complex Networks
  • Analysis and Modelling of Ecological Networks
  • Modelling of Ecological and Evolutionary phenomena

Researcher Summary

As a data scientist I explore and try to make sense what happens in complex, dynamical networks. I'm interested in ecological networks and the evolutionary processes that modify them in time; in particular I develop mathematical and statistical tools to study the relationship between ecological biodiversity and evolutionary diversity.

I'm also interested in Social Networks, especially online. I try to understand what makes them work in the way they work.

Subject Area: Disciplines

  • Biology: Ecology, Evolution and Behaviour: Evolution; Biodiversity/Conservation
  • Mathematics: Biomathematics
  • Statistics: Applied Statistics

Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

  • Cirtwill AR., Dalla Riva GV., Baker NJ., Ohlsson M., Norström I., Wohlfarth IM., Thia JA. and Stouffer DB. (2020) Related plants tend to share pollinators and herbivores, but strength of phylogenetic signal varies among plant families. New Phytologist 226(3): 909-920. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/nph.16420. (Journal Articles)
  • Cantalapiedra JL., Aze T., Cadotte MW., Dalla Riva GV., Huang D., Mazel F., Pennell MW., Ríos M. and Mooers A. (2019) Conserving evolutionary history does not result in greater diversity over geological time scales. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 286(1904) http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2896. (Journal Articles)
  • Delmas E., Besson M., Brice MH., Burkle LA., Dalla Riva GV., Fortin MJ., Gravel D., Guimarães PR., Hembry DH. and Newman EA. (2019) Analysing ecological networks of species interactions. Biological Reviews 94(1): 16-36. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/brv.12433. (Journal Articles)
  • Mora BB., Dalla Riva GV. and Stouffer DB. (2019) Unmasking structural patterns in incidence matrices: An application to ecological data. Journal of the Royal Society Interface 16(151) http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsif.2018.0747. (Journal Articles)
  • Cirtwill AR., Dalla Riva GV., Gaiarsa MP., Bimler MD., Cagua EF., Coux C. and Dehling DM. (2018) A review of species role concepts in food webs. Food Webs 16 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fooweb.2018.e00093. (Journal Articles)
  • Knorr EM., Dalla Riva GV. and Vakarelov O.. (2018) Anatomy of a new data science course in privacy, ethics, and security. In Proceedings of the 23rd Western Canadian Conference on Computing Education, WCCCE 2018 - Held in cooperation with the ACM Special Interest Group on Computer Science Education (SIGCSE) http://dx.doi.org/10.1145/3209635.3209640. (Conference Contributions - Published)
  • Mazel F., Pennell M., Cadotte M., Diaz S., Dalla Riva GV., Grenyer R., Leprieur F., Mooers A., Mouillot D. and Tucker C. (2018) Testing the phylogenetic gambit: how much functional diversity can we reliably conserve if we prioritize phylogenetic diversity? http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/243923. (Journal Articles)
  • Mazel F., Pennell MW., Cadotte MW., Diaz S., Dalla Riva GV., Grenyer R., Leprieur F., Mooers AO., Mouillot D. and Tucker CM. (2018) Prioritizing phylogenetic diversity captures functional diversity unreliably. Nature Communications 9(1) http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-018-05126-3. (Journal Articles)
  • Delmas E., Besson M., Brice M-H., Burkle L., Dalla Riva G., Fortin M-J., Gravel D., Guimarães P., Hembry D. and Newman E. (2017) Analyzing ecological networks of species interactions. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/112540. (Journal Articles)
  • Mazel F., Mooers A., Dalla Riva GV. and Pennell M. (2017) Conserving Phylogenetic Diversity can be a Poor Strategy for Conserving Functional Diversity. http://dx.doi.org/10.1101/137521. (Journal Articles)
  • Dalla Riva GV. (2016) The Web and the Tree: On the interplay between ecological processes and evolutionary history. Christchurch, New Zealand. University of Canterbury. (Theses / Dissertations)
  • Dalla Riva GV. and Stouffer DB. (2016) Exploring the evolutionary signature of food webs' backbones using functional traits. Oikos 125(4): 446-456. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/oik.02305. (Journal Articles)

Future Research

  • Ethics first Data Science
  • Analysis and Modelling of Online Communities and Social Networks

Key Methodologies

  • Data Science
  • Complex Networks
  • Graph Theory
  • Dynamical Systems
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