About Ernesto

Research Interest

• Climate change impacts on marine ecosystems. Future distribution of marine biodiversity, time-series analysis, marine heatwave events, global ocean circulation changes.

• Conservation and management of marine ecosystems. Marine ecology, connectivity of marine populations, marine protected areas.

• Ocean health. Marine litter impacts on marine ecosystems.

Professional Appointments

• 2023- : Researcher. Marine Ecosystem Functioning. AZTI (San Sebastian, Spain).

• 2019-2022: Postdoc researcher. Climate change impacts on ocean circulation. Scripps Institution of Oceanography (San Diego, USA), Oregon State University (Corvallis, USA) and AZTI (San Sebastian, Spain).  

• 2018: Project officer. Marine litter impacts on coastal ecosystems of SE Bay of Biscay. Surfrider Foundation Europe (Biarritz, France).

• 2012-2017: Research assistant. Climate change impacts on marine biodiversity. AZTI (San Sebastian, Spain).  

• 2011-2012: Research assistant. Ecosystem health and water quality in the Basque Coast. University of the Basque Country (Bilbao, Spain). 

• 2010: Research assistant. Ecosystem modeling of the North Sea. Hamburg Oceanography Institute - KLIMA Campus (Hamburg, Germany).  

• 2008: Research assistant. Satellite oceanography: Harmful algal blooms in the Baltic Sea. Finnish Institute of Marine Research (Helsinki, Finland).

1) Villarino, E, Lanzen, A, Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, N, Mendibil, I, Borja, A, Muxika, I, Irigoien, I, Garmendia, JM and Chust, G. Contrasting diversity patterns using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures deployed in pelagic vs. benthic environments. 2024. Continental Shelf Research

2) Chust, G, Villarino, E, McLean, M, Mieszkowska, N, Benedetti-Cecchi, L, Bulleri, F, Ravaglioli, C, Borja, A, Muxika, I, Fernandes-Salvador, JA, Ibaibarriaga, L, Uriarte, A, Revilla, M, Villate, F, Iriarte, A, Uriarte, I, Zervoudaki, S, Carstensen, J, Somerfield, PJ, Queirós, AM, McEvoy, AJ, Auber, A, Hidalgo, M, Coll, M, Garrabou, J, Gómez-Gras, D, Linares, C, Ramírez, F, Margarit, F, Lepage, M, Dambrine, C, Lobry, J, Peck, MA, de la Barra, P, van Leeuwen, A, Rilov, G, Yeruham, E, Brind’Amour, A and Lindegren, M. Cross-basin and cross-taxa patterns of marine community tropicalization and deborealization in warming European seas. 2024. Nature Communications

3) Canals, O, Corell, J, Villarino, E, Chust, G, Aylagas, E, Mendibil, I, Craig, TM, Gonzalez-Gordillo, JI, Irigoien, X and Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, N. Global mesozooplankton communities show lower connectivity in deep oceanic layers. 2024. Molecular Ecology

4) Villarino, E, Watson, JR, Chust, G, Woodill, AJ, Klempay, B, Jönsson, B, Gasol, JM, Logares, R, Massana, Giner, CR, Salazar, G, Alvarez-Salgado, XA, Catala, TS, Duarte, CM, Agusti, S, Mauro, F, Irigoien, X and Barton, AD. Global beta diversity patterns of microbial communities in the surface and deep ocean. 2022. Global Ecology and Biogeography

5) Chust, G, González, M, Fontán, A, Revilla, M, Alvarez, P, Santos, M, Cotano, U, Chifflet, M, Borja, A, Muxika, I, Sagarminaga, Y, Caballero, A, de Santiago, I, Epelde, I, Liria, P, Ibaibarriaga, L, Garnier, R, Franco, F, Villarino, E, Irigoien, X, Fernandes, JA, Uriarte, A, Esteban, X, Orue-Echevarria, D, Figueira, T and Uriarte, A. Climate regime shifts and biodiversity redistribution in the Bay of Biscay. 2021. Science of The Total Environment

6) Pearman, J.K, Chust, G, Aylagas, E, Villarino, E, Watson, JR, Chenuil, A, Borja, A, Cahill, AE, Carugati, L, Danovaro, R, David, R, Irigoien, X, Mendibil, I, Moncheva, S, Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, N, Uyarra, MC and Carvalho, S. Pan-regional marine benthic cryptobiome biodiversity patterns revealed by metabarcoding Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures. 2020. Molecular Ecology

7) Villarino, E, Irigoien, X. Villate, F, Iriate, A, Uriarte, I. Zervoudaki, S, Carstensen, J, O’Brien, TD and Chust, G. Response of copepods communities to ocean warming in three time-series across the North Atlantic and Mediterranean Sea. 2020. Marine Ecology Progress Series

8) Villarino, E, Watson, JR, Jönsson, B, Gasol, JM, Salazar, G, Acinas, S, Estrada, M, Massana, R, Logares, R, Giner, C, Pernice, M, Olivar, MP, Citores, L, Corell, J, Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, N, Acuña, J, Molina-Ramirez, A, Gonzalez-Gordillo, JI, Cozar, A, Marti, E, Cuesta, J, Agusti, S, Fraile-Nuez, E, Duarte, CM, Irigoien, X and Chust, G. Large-scale ocean connectivity and planktonic body size. 2018. Nature Communications

9) Goldsmit, J, Archambault, P, Chust, G, Villarino, E, Liu, G, Lukovich, J, Barber, D and Howland, K. Projecting present and future habitat suitability of ship-mediated aquatic invasive species in the Canadian Arctic. 2017. Biological Invasions

10) Payne, MR, Hobday, AJ, MacKenzie, BR, Tommasi, D, Dempsey, DP, Ji, R, Liu, G, Matei, D, Miesner, AK, Mills, KE, Strand, KO and Villarino, E. Lessons from the first generation of marine ecological forecasts. 2017. Frontiers in Marine Science

11) Chust, G, Vogt, M, Benedetti, F, Nakov, T, Villéger, S, Aubert, A, Vallina, SM, Righetti, D, Not, F, Biard, T, Bittner, L, Benoiston, A, Guidi, L, Villarino, E, Gaborit, C, Cornils, A, Buttay, L, Irisson, JO, Chiarello, M, Lima, AV, Blanco-Bercial, L, Basconi, L, Guilhaumon, F and Ayata, S. Mare incognitum: A glimpse into future plankton diversity and ecology research. 2017. Frontiers in Marine Science

12) Chust, G, Villarino*, E, Chenuil, A, Irigoien, X, Bizsel, N, Bode, A, Broms, G, Claus, S, Fernández de Puelles, ML, Fonda-Umani, S, Hoarau, G, Mazzocchi, MG, Mozetič, P, Vandepitte, L, Veríssimo, H, Zervoudaki, S and Borja, A. Dispersal similarly shapes population genetics and community patterns in the marine realm. 2016. Scientific Reports *shared first authorship.

13) Lezama-Ochoa, N, Murua, H, Chust, G, Van Loon, E, Ruiz, J, Hall, M, Chavance, P, Delgado de Molina, A and Villarino, E. Present and future potential habitat distribution of Carcharhinus falciformis and Canthidermis maculata by-catch species in the tropical tuna purse-seine fishery under climate change. 2016. Frontiers in Marine Science

14) Villarino, E, Chust, G, Licandro, P, Butenschön, M, Ibaibarriaga, L, Larrañaga, A and Irigoien, X. Modelling the future biogeography of North Atlantic zooplankton communities in response to climate change. 2015. Marine Ecology Progress Series