
Awards
Other Memberships/Affiliations
Cuban Society of Botany
Experts Group of the Program of Science and Technology "Sustainable uses of the Cuban biodiversity"
Academy of Sciences of Cuba
Degrees:
1981
Undergraduate Biological Systems and Organisms
Culture of Cyanobacteria in marine media
1996
Master Biological Systems and Organisms
Ecology of seagrasses
2008
Doctorate Biological Systems and Organisms
Marine ecology, taxonomy of seagrasses and seaweeds, environmental problems, anthropogenic impacts
Publications resulting from Research
Suárez, A. M., Martínez-Daranas, B., Alfonso Sánchez, Y., Moreira-González, A. R., & Jover Capote, A. (2023). Lista actualizada de las macroalgas marinas cubanas. Acta Botanica Mexicana 130(e2196). https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.21829/abm130.2023.2196
Torres-Conde, E. G., van Tussenbroek, B. I., Rodríguez-Martínez, R. E., & Martínez-Daranas, B. (2023). Temporal changes in the composition of beached holopelagic Sargassum spp. along the northwestern coast of Cuba. Phycology, 3, 405–412. https://doi.org/https://doi.org/10.3390/phycology3040027
Martínez-Daranas, B., Betanzos-Vega, A., Lopeztegui-Castillo, A., Capetillo-Piñar, N., Castellanos-Iglesias, S., 2021. Influence of several stressful factors on the condition of seagrasses at Sabana–Camagüey Archipelago, Cuba. Regional Studies in Marine Science 47(101939). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101939
Torres-Conde, E.G., Martínez-Daranas, B., Prieto, L., 2021. The Havana littoral, an area of distribution for Physalia physalis in the Atlantic Ocean. Regional Studies in Marine Science 44(101752). https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2021.101752
Castellanos-Iglesias, S., Siret-Martínez, S. L., Di Domenico, M., Martínez-Daranas, B., & Haddad, M. A. (2021). Epiphytic hydroid community as sentinels of seagrass condition and human impacts. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 173, 112939. doi: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2021.112939
Sauvage, T., Wynne, M. J., Draisma, S. G. A., Ortegón-Aznar, I., Mateo-Cid, L. E., Mendoza-González, A. C., Martínez-Daranas, B., Fredericq, S. (2021). Caulerpa wysorii sp. nov., a denuded Caulerpa (Chlorophyta) resembling C. sertularioides when ‘dressed’. Phycologia. https://doi.org/10.1080/00318884.2020.1862563
Suárez, A. M., Martínez-Daranas, B. (2020). Similitud de la ficoflora marina en zonas del Atlántico Occidental Tropical y Subtropical. Caldasia, 42(1), 85-95. https://dx.doi.org/10.15446/caldasia.v42n1.73372
Suárez, A. M., Martínez-Daranas, B., Alfonso, Y. (2015). Macroalgas marinas de Cuba. La Habana: Editorial UH. ISBN: 987-959-7211-44-0 (Book)
Reed, J. K., González-Díaz, P., Voss, J. D., Busutil, L., Diaz, C., Pomponi, S. A., Farrington, S., Cobián-Rojas, D., David, A., Martínez-Daranas, B., Hanisak, M. D., González Mendez, J., Sturm, A. B., González Sánchez, P. M., García Hernández, M. R., Viamontes Fernández, J., Jiang, M., Laverick, J. H., & Zlatarski, V. N. (2023). Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems of Cuba. En: V. N. Zlatarski, J. K. Reed, S. A. Pomponi, S. Brooke, & S. Farrington (Eds.), Coral Reefs of Cuba (pp. 111-125). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36719-9_6 (Book chapter)
Suárez, A. M., & Martínez-Daranas, B. (2023). Macrophytes Associated with Cuban Coral Reefs. En: V. N. Zlatarski, J. K. Reed, S. A. Pomponi, S. Brooke, & S. Farrington (Eds.), Coral Reefs of Cuba (pp. 111-125). Springer Nature Switzerland AG. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-36719-9_6 (Book chapter)
2024 World Seagrass Conference
2025
2024 World Seagrass Conference & 15th lnternational Seagrass Biology Workshop
2025