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Patrick J Schembri
Patrick J. Schembri holds a BSc in chemistry and biology and an MSc in biology from the University of Malta, a PhD in zoology from the University of Glasgow, Scotland. He is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Biology (Britain) and a Chartered Biologist, and is a Full Professor in the Department of Biology of the University of Malta.
He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand, a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the University of Delaware, USA, and a Durham Research Foundation Visiting Fellow at the University of Durham, England.
His research interests are marine benthic ecology, the impact of environmental change on Mediterranean coastal and marine biodiversity, particularly ‘tropicalization’ and related phenomena, faunistics of the Maltese Islands with particular reference to biogeography, and human impact on Mediterranean island ecosystems.
He was a postdoctoral fellow at the University of Otago, New Zealand, a Fulbright Senior Research Scholar at the University of Delaware, USA, and a Durham Research Foundation Visiting Fellow at the University of Durham, England.
His research interests are marine benthic ecology, the impact of environmental change on Mediterranean coastal and marine biodiversity, particularly ‘tropicalization’ and related phenomena, faunistics of the Maltese Islands with particular reference to biogeography, and human impact on Mediterranean island ecosystems.
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All of these themes are further developed below (and in FRAGSUS Volumes 2 and 3), giving time-depth to the sequences of climatic, environmental and landscape changes throughout the Holocene.