A5038524369- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Hand Gesture Recognition Systems
- Marine and fisheries research
- Algal biology and biofuel production
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Human Pose and Action Recognition
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Gait Recognition and Analysis
- Polar Research and Ecology
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Diatoms and Algae Research
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Manufacturing Process and Optimization
- Light effects on plants
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Biological Control of Invasive Species
- Indigenous Studies and Ecology
National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics
2012-2024
Istituto di Matematica Applicata e Tecnologie Informatiche
2019-2022
National Research Council
2020
Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
1996-2000
Abstract Spread of alien species (AS) is a serious threat to marine habitats and analysis principal descriptors their occurrence pivotal set reliable conservation strategies. In order assess the susceptibility biological invasions, dataset was gathered 3899 from 29 phyla, taken 93 sites located along Italian coast in period 2000–2012. total, 61 AS belonging 11 phyla have been recorded. Invertebrates were most represented (63%). Alien found all examined (EUNIS, level 2), although they showed...
Abstract. In September 2021, as part of the Italian Arctic research programme, a multidisciplinary cruise along 75th parallel north through Greenland Sea Gyre was conducted aboard icebreaker Laura Bassi CASSANDRA project, which also contributed to Synoptic Survey (SAS) 2020/22. The took place during period lowest summer sea ice extent ever measured. data show strong horizontal gradients with temperatures between 1.5 °C and 9.0 salinity 30 35. Warm salty Atlantic Water (AW, θ > 3.0 °C, S...
Three strains of Ostreopsis ovata were isolated from sea water and algae collected either along the Tyrrhenian or Adriatic Sea. Evaluation growth profile three O. in batch cultures analyzed at four light intensities (10, 100, 400, 650 µmol m-2 s-1). cell densities increased all except 10 s-1. The showed rates with values 0.24 to 0.56 day. allelopathic effect filtrate culture on Coscinodiscus granii, Prorocentrum minimum Coolia monotis was studied. Filtrate exponential senescent phase...
The Ross Sea is characterized by a series of subsystems with different characteristics making it an extremely productive area from biological viewpoint. To understand whether species composition and functional traits the plankton community can be used as tracers subsystems, we have analyzed phytoplankton microzooplankton, their potential relationships, in two polynyas during austral summer 2017. Sampling activities were carried out near Terra Nova Bay, between Cape Washington northern shore...
In the framework of Italian International Polar Year project entitled Evolution a Glacial Arctic Continental Margin: Southern Svalbard Ice Stream-dominated Sedimentary System, study was carried out on microzooplankton distribution and biomass along south-to-north transect extending from northern Norway to Archipelago, 65° 78°N. Tintinnids, heterotrophic dinoflagellates, aloricate cilates micrometazoans were main groups observed in samples collected at 17 surface stations 9 13 July 2008....
Prorocentrum minimum is a potentially harmful and widely distributed marine dinoflagellate.Several P. strains have already been studied, showing phylogenetical relations of isolated from the same geographical regions.Similarity among was further examined on basis their physiology.Pigment composition concentration, as well delayed fluorescence (DF) decay kinetics intensity, were measured in four Baltic Adriatic Seas.The grown at two salinities characteristic (8 PSU) North Seas (32 PSU).Strain...
In this review we focus on research performed by Italian scientists pelagic communities, from microzooplankton to micronekton, mainly in the Seas. We considered published data, mostly as grey literature, and unpublished ones. Firstly describe data collected over a time span of more than 30 years, during several cruises all around peninsula zooplankton composition distribution. identified rare vs. common species, which enhanced biodiversity ecosystem. Time series, some also very long, allowed...
In this review we focus on research performed by Italian scientists pelagic communities, from microzooplankton to micronekton, mainly in the Seas. We considered published data, mostly as grey literature, and unpublished ones. Firstly describe data collected over a time span of more than 30 years, during several cruises all around peninsula zooplankton composition distribution. identified rare vs. common species, which enhanced biodiversity ecosystem. Time series, some also very long, allowed...
Abstract Prorocentrum minimum (Dinophyceae), a planktonic microalga forming red tides, is considered potentially toxic species. In view of its likely harmful role, accurate identification P. to species and/or subspecies may be particularly important. Like most thecate dinoflagellates, largely based on morphology the theca and features both flagellar auxiliary apical pores. this study, we compared 18S rDNA gene sequences confirm that strains isolated from Baltic (3 strains) Adriatic Seas were...
Abstract Sympagic microzooplankton were studied during late winter in the northern Weddell Sea for diversity, abundance and carbon biomass. Ice cores collected on an ice floe along three dive transects seawater was taken from under through central hole which all connected. The areal vertical distributions water compared. Abundance (max. 1300 ind. l -1 ) biomass 28.2 µg C high low below sea 19 , 0.15 respectively). highest abundances observed bottom 10 cm of cores. community within comprised...
Abundance and composition of the planktonic tintinnid ciliates were studied in Gulf Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea, NE Mediterranean Sea) from July 1998 to 2016. Tintinnids collected biweekly-monthly LTER station C1 (200 m offshore, 17.5 depth) at four depths (surface, 5 m, 10 15 m). The maximum abundance reached 4476 ind. L -1 surface February community comprised a 35 species was dominated by genera Stenosemella , Tintinnopsis Codonellopsis Salpingella Eutintinnus . most abundant...
During the next century, Ross Sea is expected to reduce summer sea ice concentrations and consolidate presence of shallower mixed layers. Those changes may have a potentially catastrophic effect on zooplankton community. To investigate if Sea’s past physical biological condition affected tintinnids population, understand future tintinnids’ role in plankton community, seawater samples collected Terra Nova Bay polynya area during eleven expeditions from 1988 2017 were analyzed. this time...