PAPA, Rey Donne S.

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Rey Donne S. Papa (born October 17, 1981) finished his B.Sc., M.Sc. (cum Laude) and Ph.D. (cum Laude) degrees at the University of Santo Tomas (UST). He holds the rank of Professor from the same university and teaches Zoology, Freshwater Biology, and Ecology courses to graduate and undergraduate students. In 2011, he established the UST Zooplankton, Ecology, Systematics, and Limnology (ZESL) research group. His laboratory houses the UST Zooplankton Reference Collection – the first and so far only existing organized repository of freshwater zooplankton in the Philippines. He has authored / co-authored more than 75 publications, mostly in freshwater zooplankton ecology and systematics and tropical limnology. These outputs were supported by projects with funding from the US National Academy of Science and USAID, the German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD), the International Society of Limnology (Tonolli Award), the Commission on Higher Education, the Department of Science and Technology, the National Academy of Science and Technology, and the National Research Council of the Philippines. He has also been recognized by the National Academy of Science and Technology as an Outstanding Young Scientist in Biological Sciences (2021). From 2017 to 2019, he served as Chair of the UST Department of Biological Sciences before being appointed Dean of the UST College of Science – a post he has held since January 2020. He is likewise actively involved in professional and scientific organizations such as the National Research Council of the Philippines, the Association of Systematic Biologists of the Philippines, the World Association of Copepodologists, the Philippine Society for Freshwater Science, and the International Society of Limnology. In 2016, he was one of the lead organizers of the first-ever Philippine Symposium on Freshwater Biodiversity and Ecosystems (PSFBE) held at the University of Santo Tomas. Since 2018, he has been serving as the Vice President of the Philippine Society for Freshwater Science, established as an offshoot of the first PSFBE, and has been the National Ambassador of the Philippines to the International Society of Limnology since 2020.

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rspapa@ust.edu.ph

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Academic Qualifications

Degrees

Doctor of Philosophy in Biological Sciences, University of Santo Tomas – Manila, Philippines, 2011
Master of Science in Biology, University of Santo Tomas – Manila, Philippines, 2005
Bachelor of Science in Biology, University of Santo Tomas – Manila, Philippines, 2002

Research Highlights

Ecology and systematics of freshwater zooplankton and limnology, including studies on invasive copepods, long-term limnological research, palaeolimnology, freshwater biodiversity and aquaculture impacts.
Maintains the UST Zooplankton Reference Collection – the first and so far only organized repository of zooplankton in the country

Research Interests

Freshwater Zooplankton Ecology and Systematics
Limnology

Courses Handled

Major Recognitions

Professional Activities

Courses Handled

Advanced Ecology
Freshwater Biology
General Ecology
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Major Recognitions

2021 Outstanding Young Scientist Award in Biological Sciences – National Academy of Science and Technology
2017 Gawad San Alberto Magno (Outstanding Researcher – Science and Technology Category), Dangal ng UST Awards
2014-2016 Principal Investigator -PEER Science Grant by the U.S. National Academy of Science and USAID
2013 NCR Qualifier – CHED Republica Awards
2010 German Academic Exchange Service (DAAD) Research Fellowship (February – July 2010)
2008 Tonolli Fund Postgraduate Fellowship, International Society of Limnology

Professional Activities

Project Leader, UST – Accelerated Science and Technology Human Resource Development Program – National Science Consortium, 2023-present
Member, Editorial Board, National Research Council of the Philippines (NRCP) Research Journal, 2023-2025
Editor-in-Chief, 2016-2022; Member, Editorial Board, 2023-present, The Antoninus Journal (UST Graduate School)
Member of Pool of Experts for Biodiversity Science, National Commission for Culture and the Arts (NCCA), 2022-present
Chair of the Research Council of the Protected Areas Management Office, Taal Volcano Protected Landscape (PAMO-TVPL), 2021-present
Dean, University of Santo Tomas College of Science, 2020-Present
National Representative for the Philippines, International Society of Limnology (SIL), 2020-present
Vice President, Philippine Society for Freshwater Science, 2018-present
Member, Editorial Board, The Philippine Journal of Fisheries, 2015-present
Member, Editorial Board, Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology, 2013-present
President, Association of Systematic Biologists of the Philippines, 2018-2020
Program Lead, Natural Sciences Cluster, UST Graduate School, 2017-2023
Chair, Department of Biological Sciences, University of Santo Tomas, 2017-2020
Vice-President, Association of Systematic Biologists of the Philippines, 2016-2018
Business Manager, Association of Systematic Biologists of the Philippines, 2014-2016
External Expert, development of Laguna de Bay Ecosystem Health Card for Laguna Lake Development Authority (LLDA) and Partnership in Environmental Management for the Seas of East Asia (PEMSEA), 2013-2016
Reviewer for Acta Manilana, The Philippine BIOTA, Hydrobiologia, Philippine Agricultural Scientist, Philippine Science Letters, Crustaceana, Journal of Crustacean Biology, Philippine Journal of Science, Tropical Ecology, The Philippine Scientist, Inland Waters, Fundamental and Applied Limnology, Environment, Development and Sustainability

Selected Publications

Peralta EM, Batucan L, De Jesus IB, Triño EM, Uehara Y, Ishida T, Kobayashi Y, Ko C-Y, Iwata T, Borja AS, Briones JCA, Papa RDS, Magbanua FS, Okuda N (2020) Nutrient loadings and deforestation decrease benthic macroinvertebrate diversity in an urbanised tropical stream system. Limnologica 80: 125744 ISSN: 0075-9511 (Clarivate / Scopus)
De Leon JR, Guinto SKP, Tordesillas DT, Papa RDS. 2020. Depth and productivity as predictive parameters for the widespread invasion of Arctodiaptomus dorsalis (Marsh, 1907) (Copepoda: Calanoida) in tropical lakes in the Philippines. Journal of Crustacean Biology 1–8. ISSN 0278-0372 EISSN 1937-240X (Clarivate / Scopus)
Corre PS, Abadilla MRCS, Arnaldo MNL, Irlanda MTS, Mariano AZP, Dogma IJD, Papa RDS. 2020. Vorticella and Colacium as epibionts of copepods in Pasig River, Philippines. Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology 14(1) Online ISSN: 2508-0342 (Clarivate / Scopus)
Rizo EZC, Liu P, Niu H, Yang Y, Lin Q, Papa RDS, Dumont HJ, Han B-P. 2020. Zooplankton in a continuous waterscape: environmental and spatial factors shaping spring zooplankton community structure in a large canyon reservoir at the tropic of cancer. Hydrobiologia 847(17): 3621-3625 (Clarivate / Scopus)
Gordola KMC, Boctuanon FAU, Diolata RAA, Pedro MBD, Gutierrez TAD, Papa RDS, Papa DMD (2020). Evaluation of Phage Delivery Systems on Induced Motile Aeromonas Septicemia in Oreochromis niloticus. PHAGE: Therapy, Applications and Research ISSN: 2641-6530 Online ISSN: 2641-6549
Papa RDS & Dela Cruz-Papa DMA. 2020. Philippine Mycology’s central DOGMA. Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology 14(1): xxx-xxx DOI 10.26757/pjsb2019a13011 Online ISSN: 2508-0342 (Clarivate / Scopus)
Mendoza-Pascual MU, Itoh M, Aguilar JI, Padilla KSAR, Papa RDS, Okuda N. 2021. Controlling factors of methane dynamics in tropical lakes of different depths. Journal of Geophysical Research – Biogeosciences (Clarivate / Scopus)
Baludo, MJ, Papa RDS and Magbanua FS. 2021. Limnology of Lake Wood: Ancestral Lake of the Subanen Tribe. Philippine Journal of Science. 150 (5): 1231-1243. ISSN 0031-7683. (Clarivate / Scopus)
De Leon J, Tordesillas D, Biag IJ, Cusi SH, Tan JA, Mijares E, Aguilar J, RDS Papa (2022). Philippine seven tropical maar lakes are ideal habitats for the invasive Arctodiaptomus dorsalis Marsh, 1907 (Copepoda, Calanoida). Philippine Journal of Science. 151 (1): 281-290. ISSN 0031-7683. (Clarivate / Scopus)
De Leon JG, Fujibayashi M, Petilla FM, Yumul BI, Mendoza-Pascual MU, Papa RDS, Okuda N (2022). Identification of aquatic consumer trophic pathways in four volcanic tropical lakes using fatty acid biomarkers. Journal of Limnology 81: 2017 eISSN 1723-8633 (Scopus)
Briddon CL, Metcalfe S, Taylor D, Bannister W, Cunanan M, Santos-Borja A, Papa RDS, McGowan S. 2023. Changing water quality and thermocline depth along an aquaculture gradient in six tropical crater lakes. Hydrobiologia 850: 283-299 (Clarivate / Scopus)
Zhang X, Huang Q, Liu P, Sun C, Papa RDS, Sanoamuang L, Dumont HJ, Han BP (2023). Geography, ecology, and history synergistically shape across-range genetic variation in a calanoid copepod endemic to the north-eastern Oriental. Evolution XX (XX) 1-15.
Bannister W, McGowan S, Santos-Borja AC, Quak J, Fong L, Mendoza M, Papa RDS, Taylor D. (2019) Potential anthropogenic regime shifts in three freshwater lakes in Tropical East Asia. Freshwater Biology 64 (4), 708–722 DOI:10.1111/fwb.13256 (Online ISSN:1365-2427)
Li H, Guinto SKP, Papa RDS, Han BP, Magbanua FS, Rizo EZC, Dumont HJ, Lin QQ. (2019) On Filipinodiaptomus Lai, Mamaril Sr., & Fernando, 1979 (Calanoida: Diaptomidae): Re-description and re-allocation of the Philippine endemic Diaptomus vexillifer Brehm, 1933. Crustaceana 92(5): 513-536 ISSN: 0011-216x
Peralta EM, Belen AE, Buenaventura GR, Cantre FG, Espiritu KGR, De Vera JNA, Perez CP, Tan AKV, De Jesus IBB, Palomares P, Briones JCA, Ikeya T, Magbanua FS, Papa RDS, Okuda N (2019). Stream benthic macroinvertebrate assemblages reveal the importance of a recently established freshwater-protected area in a tropical watershed. Pacific Science 73(3): 305-320 ISSN 0030-8870 E-ISSN 1534-6188
Mendoza MU, Briones JCA, Itoh M, Padilla KSA, Aguilar JF, Okuda N, Papa RDS (2019). Small maar lakes of Luzon Island: their Limnological Status and Implications on the Management of Tropical Lakes – A Review. Philippine Journal of Science 143 (3): 565-576 ISSN 0031-7683.
Lopez MLD and Papa RDS (2019). Diversity and distribution of copepods (Class: Maxillopoda, Subclass: Copepoda) in groundwater habitats across Southeast Asia. Marine and Freshwater Research ISSN 1323-1650 E-ISSN 1448-6059
Rizo EZ, Xu S, Tang Q, Papa RDS, Dumont HJ, Qian SS, Han BP (2019). A global analysis of Cladoceran body size and its variation linking to habitat, distribution, and taxonomy. Zoological Journal of the Linnaean Society ISSN 0024-4082 EISSN 1096-3642
Mendoza MU, Dur G, Rosana MR, Santos MD, Mutia MTM, Kawit NS, Ite MO, Villanueva LS, Anneville O, Souissi S, Papa RDS (2019). Water quality and weather trends preceding fish kill occurrences in Lake Taal (Luzon Is., Philippines) and recommendations on its long-term monitoring. Philippine Science Letters 12(2): 147-156 ISSN 2094-2818
Tordesillas DT, Paredes PMF, Villaruel KPE, Queneri CAAM, Ban S, Papa RDS. (2018). Effects of food concentration on the reproductive capability of the invasive freshwater calanoid copepod Arctodiaptomus dorsalis (Marsh, 1907) from the Philippines. Journal of Crustacean Biology 38(1): 101-106
Dela Paz ESP and Papa RDS (2018). New locality records for Mesocyclops Sars, 1914 and Thermocyclops Kiefer, 1927 in Luzon and Mindanao Islands in the University of Santo Tomas – Zooplankton Reference Collection (UST-ZRC). Philippine Science Letters 11(1): 3-9 ISSN 2094-2818
Guinto SKP, Walter TC, Papa RDS. (2018). Redescription of a Philippine endemic freshwater calanoid copepod Pseudodiaptomus brehmi Kiefer, 1938 (Copepoda, Calanoida, Pseudodiaptmidae). Crustaceana 91 (7): 831-845 ISSN: 0011-216x DOI 10.1163/15685403-00003797
Dela Paz ESP, Lopez MLD, David CIHA, Dela Cruz DRA, Viernes GAA, Wong JF, Papa RDS (2018). Freshwater microcrustaceans (Cladocera: Anomopoda and Ctenopoda; Copepoda: Cyclopoida and Calanoida) in the highly urbanized Metropolitan Manila area (Luzon Is., Philippines). Checklist 14(5) 751-762
Guinto SKP, Lacaba JVJB, Cuballes JKV, Ignacio AA, Rizo EZC, Dumont HJ, Han BP, Papa RDS (2018). New record of Phyllodiaptomus (Ctenodiaptomus) praedictus sulawensis Alekseev & Vaillant, 2013 (Hexanauplia, Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae) in the Philippines (Luzon Island). Philippine Journal of Systematic Biology 12(2): 13-23. (Print ISSN: 1908-6865; Online ISSN: 2508-0342)
Lopez MLD, Pascual JAF, Dela Paz ESP, Rizo EZC, Tordesillas DT, Guinto SK, Dumont HJ, Mamaril AC, Papa RDS (2017). Annotated checklist and insular distribution of freshwater microcrustaceans (Copepoda: Calanoida & Cyclopoida; Cladocera: Anomopoda and Ctenopoda) in the Philippines. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 65: 623-654 (ISSN 2345-7600 (electronic) ISSN 0217-2445 (print))
Lopez MLD, Magbanua FS, Mamaril AC Sr., Papa RDS. (2017). Variations in microcrustacean (Crustacea: Cladocera, Copepoda) assemblages from selected groundwater-dependent ecosystems in the greater Luzon and Mindoro Island faunal regions (Philippines): insights to tropical groundwater ecology. Inland Waters
Rizo EZC, Gu Y, Papa RDS, Dumont HJ, Han B-P (2017). Identifying functional groups and ecological roles of tropical and subtropical freshwater Cladocera in Asia. Hydrobiologia
Tordesillas DT, Abaya NKP, Dayo MAS, Marquez LEB, Papa RDS and S Ban. 2016. Effect of temperature on life history traits of the invasive calanoid copepod Arctodiaptomus dorsalis (Marsh, 1907) from Lake Taal, Philippines. Plankton and Benthos Research 11 (4): 105-111 ONLINE ISSN: 1882-627X PRINT ISSN: 1880-8247
Dela Paz ESP, Holynska M, Papa RDS. 2016. Mesocyclops and Thermocyclops (Copepoda, Cyclopidae) in the major Visayas islands (Central Philippines). Crustaceana 89(6-7): 787-809 ISSN: 0011-216x
Briones JCA, Papa RDS, Cauyan GA, Mendoza N, Okuda N. 2016. Fish diversity and trophic interactions in Lake Sampaloc (Luzon Is., Philippines). Tropical Ecology 57(3): 567-581 ISSN 0564-3295
Legaspi K, Lau A, Jordan P, Mackay A, McGowan S, McGlynn G, Baldia S, Papa RDS, Taylor D (2015). Establishing the impacts of freshwater aquaculture in tropical Asia: the potential role of palaeolimnology. Geo: Geography and Environment 2 (2): 148-163Online ISSN: 2054-4049
Pascual JAF, Rizo EZC, Han B, Dumont HJ, Papa RDS (2014). Taxonomy and Distribution of Four Cladoceran Families (Branchiopoda: Cladocera: Moinidae, Bosminidae, Chydoridae and Sididae) in Philippine Inland Waters. Raffles Bulletin of Zoology 62: 771-794
Papa, RDS and M Holynska (2013). An overview of the limnetic Cyclopidae (Crustacea, Copepoda) in the Philippines, with emphasis on Mesocyclops. Journal of Limnology 72 (s2): 290-312
Briones JC, Cheng-Han T, Nakazawa T, Sakai Y, Papa RDS, CH Hsieh, and N Okuda (2012). Long-term changes in the diet of Gymnogobius isaza from Lake Biwa, Japan: Effects of body size and prey availability. PLoS One 7 (12): e53167
Papa RDS, Li H, Tordesillas D, Han BP, and Dumont H. (2012). Massive Invasion of Arctodiaptomus dorsalis (Copepoda, Calanoida, Diaptomidae) in Philippine Lakes: A Threat to Asian Zooplankton Biodiversity? Biological Invasions 14 (12): 2471-2478

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