Maria Vanessa Baria-Rodriguez, Ph.D. – Assistant Professor, Deputy Director for Bolinao Marine Laboratory

Contact:
vrodriguez@msi.upd.edu.ph

Education:
Ph.D. Marine and Environmental Science, University of the Ryukyus, Okinawa, Japan

Research Interests:
Coral reef ecology, Coral reproduction and recruitment, Coral physiology, Coral restoration

Selected Publications:

• “Cvitanovic, C., Acedera, M.A.M., Samonte, P.C., Baria‐Rodriguez, M.V., Cabaitan, P., Dzung, N.T.P., … & van Putten, I. (2024). Roadmap for improving coral reef restoration practices in Southeast Asia. Ecological Management & Restoration. https://doi.org/10.1111/emr.12615
  (Article in Press)”
• Matorres, D.E., Fabinyi, M., Horigue, V., Novilla, C.T., & Baria-Rodriguez, M.V. (June 2024). Institutional dimensions of coral reef restoration in the Philippines. Environmental Science & Policy, 156, 103734. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envsci.2024.103734
• Baran, C.C., Luciano, R.M.A., Segumalian, C.S., Valino, D.A.M., & Baria-Rodriguez, M.V. (08 May 2023). Genus and size-specific susceptibility of soft corals to 2020 bleaching event in the Philippines. Marine Biology Research, 19(2-3), 1-12. https://doi.org/10.1080/17451000.2023.2198242
• Bonilla, K.G., Guest, J.R., & Baria-Rodriguez, M.V. (2023). Contrasting reproductive strategies between stress-tolerant and competitive coral taxa. Coral Reefs, 42, 717-728. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-023-02380-w
• Chan, Y.K.S., Affendi, Y.A., Ang, P.O., Baria-Rodriguez, M.V., Chen, C.A., Chui, A.P.Y., … & Huang, D. (December 2023). Decadal stability in coral cover could mask hidden changes on reefs in the East Asian Seas. Communications Biology, 6(1), 630. https://doi.org/10.1038/s42003-023-05000-z
• Guest, J., Baria-Rodriguez, M.V., Toh, T. C., dela Cruz, D., Vicentuan, K., Gomez, E., … & Edwards, A. (December 2023). Live slow, die old: larval propagation of slow-growing, stress-tolerant corals for reef restoration. Coral Reefs, 42, 1365-1377. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-023-02440-1
• Lalas, J.A.A., Manzano, G.G., Desabelle, L.A.B., & Baria-Rodriguez, M.V. (2023). Spatial variation in the benthic community structure of a coral reef system in the central Philippines: Highlighting hard coral, octocoral, and sponge assemblages. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 61, 102859. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2023.102859
• Manzano, G., Lalas, J.A., Desabelle, L.A., Prado, M.S., Aliño, P.M., Salvador-Reyes, L., & Baria-Rodriguez, M.V. (2023). Open sea farming protocols for the Philippine blue sponge (33 pp.). University of the Philippines Marine Science Institute.
• Lalas, J.A.A., Lim, R.T.S., Cabasan, J.P., Segumalian, C.S., Luciano, R.M.A., Valino, D.A.M., Jacinto, M.R., Arceo, H.O., & Baria-Rodriguez, M.V. (06 January 2022). Spatial and short-term temporal patterns of octocoral assemblages in the West Philippine Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science, 8, 782977. https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2021.782977
• Baran, C.C., & Baria-Rodriguez, M.V. (June 2021). Sexual reproduction in the soft coral Lobophytum schoedei in Bolinao-Anda Reef Complex, Pangasinan, northwestern Philippines. Invertebrate Biology, 140(2), e12316. https://doi.org/10.1111/ivb.12316
• Bonilla, K.G., Guest, J.R., Dela Cruz, D.W., & Baria-Rodriguez, M.V. (06 June 2021). Onset of sexual maturity of sexually propagated and wild colonies of the massive coral Favites abdita in northwestern Philippines. Invertebrate Reproduction and Development, 65(3), 201-209. https://doi.org/10.1080/07924259.2021.1935334
• Cabasan, J.P., Arceo, H.O., Pata, P., Labrador, K.L., Casauay, R.B., Miller, N., & Baria-Rodriguez, M.V. (November 25, 2021). Combining information on otolith morphometrics and larval connectivity models to infer stock structure of Plectropomus leopardus in the Philippines. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 679, 115-131. https://doi.org/10.3354/meps13874
• Lalas, J.A.A., Benayahu, Y., & Baria-Rodriguez, M.V. (January 2021). Community structure and size-frequency distribution of soft corals in a heavily disturbed reef system in northwestern Philippines. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 162, 111871. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2020.111871
• Valino, D.A.M., Baria-Rodriguez, M.V., Dizon, R.M., & Aliño, P.M. (March 2021). Responses of Buluan Island turbid fringing reefs, southern Philippines to the 2016 thermal anomaly. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 43, 101704. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101704
• Baria-Rodriguez MV, dela Cruz DW, Dizon, RM, Yap HT, Villanueva RD. Performance and cost‐ effectiveness of sexually produced Acropora granulosa juveniles compared with asexually generated coral fragments in restoring degraded reef areas. 2019. Aquatic Conservation: Marine Freshwater Ecosystem. 2019;1–10. (Impact factor: 2.988)
• Benjamin C, Punongbayan A, dela Cruz DW, Villanueva R, Baria MV, Yap HT. Use of Bayesian analysis with individual-based modelling to project outcomes of coral restoration. 2016. Restoration Ecology. In press. (Impact factor: 1.838)
• Baria MV, Kurihara H, Harii S. 2015. Tolerance to elevated temperature and ocean acidification of the larvae of solitary corals Fungia fungites (Linn. 1758) and Lithophyllon repanda (Dana 1846). Zoological Science, 32 (5): 447 – 454. (Impact factor: 0.857)
• Paxton C, Baria MV, Weis VM and Harii S. Effects of elevated temperature on fecundity and reproductive timing in the coral Acropora digitifera. Zygote, doi:10.1017/S0967199415000477. (Impact factor: 1.416, Citation: 1)
• Edwards, A. J., Guest, J. R., Heyward, A. J., Villanueva, R. D., Baria, M. V., Bollozos, I. S., and Golbuu, Y. (2015). Direct seeding of mass-cultured coral larvae is not an effective option for reef rehabilitation. Marine Ecological Progress Series, 525, 105-116. (Impact factor: 2.619, Citation: 3)
• Guest, J. R., Baria, M. V., Gomez, E. D., Heyward, A. J., and Edwards, A. J. (2014). Closing the circle: is it feasible to rehabilitate reefs with sexually propagated corals? Coral Reefs, 33(1), 45-55. (Impact factor: 3.324, Citation: 13)
• dela Cruz, D. W., Villanueva, R. D., and Baria, M. V. B. (2014). Community-based, low-tech method of restoring a lost thicket of Acropora corals. ICES Journal of Marine Science: Journal du Conseil, fst228. (Impact factor: 2.377, Citation: 1)
• Villanueva RD, Baria MVB and dela Cruz DW. 2013. Effects of grazing by herbivorous gastropod (Trochus niloticus) on the survivorship of cultured coral spat. Zoological Studies. 52:44. (Impact factor: 0.776, Citation: 1)
• Baria MVB, dela Cruz DW, Villanueva RD and Guest JR. 2012. Spawning of three-year old Acropora millepora corals reared from larvae in northwestern Philippines. Bulletin of Marine Science 88:1. (Impact factor: 1.306, Citation: 20)
• Villanueva RD, Baria MV and dela Cruz DW. 2012. Growth and survivorship of juvenile coral outplanted to degraded reef areas in Bolinao-Anda Reef Complex, Philippines. Marine Biology Research. (Impact factor: 1.475, Citation: 13)
• Villanueva RD, Baria MVB, dela Cruz DW and Dizon RM. 2011. Diel timing of planulation and larval settlement in the coral Isopora cuneata (Scleractinia: Acroporidae). Hydrobiologia 673: 273-279. (Impact factor: 2.275, Citation: 2)
• Baria MVB, Guest JR, Aliño PM, Edwards AJ, Gomez ED and AJ Heyward. 2010. Caging enhances early survival of the scleractinian coral Acropora tenuis. Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 394: 149-153. (Impact factor: 1.866, Citation: 28)
• Vicentuan KC, Guest JR, Baria MVB, Cabaitan PC, Dizon RM, Villanueva RD, Aliño PM and Gomez ED, Edwards AJ and AJ Heyward. 2007. Multi-species spawning of corals in northwestern Philippines. Coral reefs. DOI 10.1007/s00338-007-0325-8. (Impact factor: 3.324, Citation: 24)