Research/Scholarly/Creative Works

• McAllister TG. and Riva GD. (2023) Does the Ministry of Business, Innovation and Employment’s Endeavour Fund deliver on diversity? Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand 53(2): 244-250. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2022.2071952. (Journal Articles)

• Runghen R., Llopis-Belenguer C., McNeill MR., Dalla Riva GV. and Stouffer DB. (2023) Using network analysis to study and manage human-mediated dispersal of exotic species. Biological Invasions http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-023-03122-3. (Journal Articles)

• Dehling DM., Riva GVD., Hutchinson MC. and Stouffer DB. (2022) Niche Packing and Local Coexistence in a Megadiverse Guild of Frugivorous Birds Are Mediated by Fruit Dependence and Shifts in Interaction Frequencies. American Naturalist 199(6): 855-868. http://dx.doi.org/10.1086/718684. (Journal Articles)

• Etta G., Galeazzi A., Hutchings JR., Smith CSJ., Conti M., Quattrociocchi W. and Riva GVD. (2022) COVID-19 infodemic on Facebook and containment measures in Italy, United Kingdom and New Zealand. PLoS ONE 17(5 May) http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0267022. (Journal Articles)

• Riva GVD., Hendy S., Ross K. and Sporle A. (2022) Building sustainable health data capability in Aotearoa New Zealand: opportunities and challenges highlighted through COVID-19. Journal of the Royal Society of New Zealand http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/03036758.2022.2141806. (Journal Articles)

• Runghen R., Stouffer DB. and Dalla Riva GV. (2022) Exploiting node metadata to predict interactions in bipartite networks using graph embedding and neural networks. Royal Society Open Science 9(8) http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsos.220079. (Journal Articles)

• Sharma S., Giovinazzo F., Hucker A., Farrington K., Lawrence C., Riva GVD. and Cronin A. (2022) Impact of COVID-19 on Organ Donation and Transplantation in the UK. The Physician 7(3): 1-12. http://dx.doi.org/10.38192/1.7.3.7. (Journal Articles)

• Strydom T., Bouskila S., Banville F., Barros C., Caron D., Farrell MJ., Fortin MJ., Hemming V., Mercier B. and Pollock LJ. (2022) Food web reconstruction through phylogenetic transfer of low-rank network representation. Methods in Ecology and Evolution 13(12): 2838-2849. http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13835. (Journal Articles)

• Benden P., Feng A., Owell C. and Dalla Riva GV. (2021) Crime at Sea: A Global Database of Maritime Pirate Attacks (1993–2020). Journal of Open Humanities Data 7(0): 19-19. http://dx.doi.org/10.5334/johd.39. (Journal Articles)

• Giovinazzo F., Avolio AW., Galiandro F., Vitale A., Riva GVD., Biancofiore G., Sharma S., Muiesan P., Agnes S. and Burra P. (2021) Solid organ transplantation during covid-19 pandemic: An international web-based survey on resources' allocation. Transplantation Direct 7(3) http://dx.doi.org/10.1097/TXD.0000000000001115. (Journal Articles)

• Schweinsberg M., Feldman M., Staub N., van den Akker OR., van Aert RCM., van Assen MALM., Liu Y., Althoff T., Heer J. and Kale A. (2021) Same data, different conclusions: Radical dispersion in empirical results when independent analysts operationalize and test the same hypothesis. Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes 165: 228-249. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.obhdp.2021.02.003. (Journal Articles)

• Strydom T., Dalla Riva GV. and Poisot T. (2021) SVD Entropy Reveals the High Complexity of Ecological Networks. Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 9 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fevo.2021.623141. (Journal Articles)

• Vitale A., Svegliati-Baroni G., Ortolani A., Cucco M., Dalla Riva GV., Giannini EG., Piscaglia F., Rapaccini G., Di Marco M. and Caturelli E. (2021) Epidemiological trends and trajectories of MAFLD-associated hepatocellular carcinoma 2002-2033: the ITA.LI.CA database. Gut http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/gutjnl-2021-324915. (Journal Articles)

• 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)

• Mazel F., Mooers AO., Riva GVD. and Pennell MW. (2017) Conserving Phylogenetic Diversity Can Be a Poor Strategy for Conserving Functional Diversity.. Syst Biol 66(6): 1019-1027. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/sysbio/syx054. (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)

Research Groups

Future Research

• Scientific Machine Learning for Dynamical Networks
• Ethics first Data Science
• Analysis and Modelling of Online Communities and Social Networks
• Neural Networks and Universal Differential Equations
• Agent Based Modelling for Population Health Scenarios
• Urban Data Intelligence