A5053232600- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Crustacean biology and ecology
- Echinoderm biology and ecology
- Marine animal studies overview
- Child and Adolescent Psychosocial and Emotional Development
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
- Artificial Intelligence in Healthcare
- Bullying, Victimization, and Aggression
- Migration, Health and Trauma
University of Bari Aldo Moro
2015-2024
CoNISMa
2016-2024
Water Research Institute
2024
National Research Council
2024
King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
2023-2024
Hong Kong Polytechnic University
2022
Coral Reef Alliance
2022
Işık University
1997
Climate change is causing an increase in the frequency and intensity of marine heatwaves (MHWs) mass mortality events (MMEs) organisms are one their main ecological impacts. Here, we show that during 2015-2019 period, Mediterranean Sea has experienced exceptional thermal conditions resulting onset five consecutive years widespread MMEs across basin. These affected thousands kilometers coastline from surface to 45 m, a range habitats taxa (50 8 phyla). Significant relationships were found...
DATA REPORT article Front. Mar. Sci., 22 November 2019Sec. Global Change and the Future Ocean Volume 6 - 2019 | https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00707
Abstract The deep sea plays a critical role in global climate regulation through uptake and storage of heat carbon dioxide. However, this regulating service causes warming, acidification deoxygenation waters, leading to decreased food availability at the seafloor. These changes their projections are likely affect productivity, biodiversity distributions deep‐sea fauna, thereby compromising key ecosystem services. Understanding how change can lead shifts species is critically important...
Recent ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) exploration and bottom sampling in the southern Adriatic Sea (Apulian Montenegrin margins) resulted discovery of cnidarian-rich deep-sea habitats depth range ca. 400-700 m. In particular, inspection canyons reveals existence megabenthic communities dominated by a variety cnidarians, including scleractinians (Madrepora oculata, Lophelia pertusa, Dendrophyllia cornigera), antipatharians (Leiopathes glaberrima) gorgonians (Callogorgia verticillata) as...
Macro- and megafauna were recorded in the submarine Bari Canyon (southern Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean Sea) during an oceanographic cruise carried out May-June 2012 experimental fishing survey conducted November 2013. During former, a total of 20 benthic samples taken using Van Veen grab at depths between 268 770 m 4 deployments baited lander, for about 43 hours video records, 443 788 m. latter, 8 longline operations from 338 down to 612 Eighty-five living benthopelagic species recorded: 29...
Abstract A forest of the black coral Antipathella subpinnata was found from 52 to 80 m depth in three different sites at Tremiti Islands Marine Protected Area (MPA; Mediterranean Sea), with two them hosting a monospecific on horizontal and vertical substrates. Colonies A. showed mean density between 0.22 ± 0.03 2.40 0.26 colonies −2 (maximum local values 2.4–7.2 ). The link distribution main oceanographic features confirmed fundamental role currents shaping species presence hard substrata....
Isidella elongata is a candelabrum-shaped alcyonacean forming important facies on the bathyal muddy bottoms of Mediterranean Sea, currently considered sensitive habitat and heavily impacted by deep-sea fisheries. Until few decades ago, this was widespread deep seabed I. common species in trawling fishery's bycatch. Despite its current persistence dense aggregations being very scarce, revealed during several ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) surveys carried out from 2010 to 2014 between two...
Hyperspectral imagers enable the collection of high-resolution spectral images exploitable for supervised classification habitats and objects interest (OOI). Although this is a well-established technology study subaerial environments, Ecotone AS has developed an underwater hyperspectral imager (UHI) system to explore properties seafloor. The aim project evaluate potential instrument mapping monitoring benthic in shallow deep-water environments. For first time, we tested at two sites Southern...
Abstract The effects of global warming have been addressed on coral reefs in tropical areas, while it is still unclear how forests are reacting, particularly at temperate latitudes. Here we show mesophotic affected by the Mediterranean Sea. We highlight current trend causing lowering thermocline and enhancing mucilaginous blooms. These stressors facilitating a massive macroalgal epibiosis living corals, here reported for first time from different areas Western Central provide focus this...
Megabenthic soft bottom communities of trawlable grounds have been studied since the first few decades last century, thanks to trawl fishing technologies. Despite providing an extensive amount presence data, trawling cannot be considered reliable from a quantitative point view, frequently giving only weak information about sessile species density, large and small-scale distribution main habitat features. The recent development visual technologies on remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) can give...
Aggregations of sea pens are important soft-bottom communities providing a three-dimensional complexity from which several associated species can benefit. The red pen Pennatula rubra is one the Mediterranean coastal field-forming able to establish dense aggregations on sandy/muddy bottoms infra- and circumlittoral zones. This was first described at end 17th century, but since then little information has been published about its biology, ecology biogeography. Even less known behaviour,...
The pink sea fan Eunicella verrucosa (Cnidaria, Anthozoa, Alcyonacea) can form coral forests at mesophotic depths in the Mediterranean Sea. Despite recognized importance of these habitats, they have been scantly studied and their distribution is mostly unknown. This study reports new finding E. Sea, updated this species that has considered rare basin. In particular, one site off Sanremo (Ligurian Sea) was characterized by a monospecific population with 2.3 ± 0.2 colonies m−2. By combining...
Introduction The northern Red Sea has been coined a refuge for reef corals due to the exceptional thermal tolerance of these organisms. With ocean warming threatening coral reefs worldwide, panoptic characterization living in extreme conditions may provide insights into future responses environmental change. Among other factors, genotype endosymbiotic algae family Symbiodiniaceae shown have major implications on distribution and resilience their hosts. In this study, we aim at genotyping...
There is an increasing recognition of the importance cultural ecosystem services marine habitats for supporting management environment. However, these are still largely unknown compared to other (e.g. provisioning services) owing challenge quantifying and valuing them. Linking human welfare can contribute sustainable development areas use resources. Coralligenous bioconstructions represent a key habitat Mediterranean continental shelf because their structural functional importance, as well...
Rhodolith beds represent a key habitat worldwide, from tropical to polar ecosystems. Despite this is considered hotspot of biodiversity, providing suite ecosystem goods and services, still scarce quantitative information available thus far about rhodolith occurrence ecological role, especially in the Mediterranean Sea. This study reports composition patterns distribution assemblages found four areas along ca. 860 km coast Central These were studied for first time significant differences at...
Introduction The Red Sea is a narrow rift basin characterized by latitudinal environmental gradients which shape the diversity and distribution of reef-dwelling organisms. Studies on Symbiodiniaceae associated with select hard coral taxa present species- specific assemblages concordant variation patterns from North to southeast coast at depths shallower than 30 m. At mesophotic depths, however, algal studies are rare. Here, we characterize for first-time host-associated communities...
The brown seaweed Rugulopteryx okamurae is currently included in the list of invasive alien species European Union concern due to its rapid expansion that causing both ecological and economic impacts. In this study, we report first record R. Southern Adriatic Sea, off coast Bari, Italy, representing easternmost limit distribution Mediterranean Sea. Morphological observations combined with rbcL psbA sequence analyses confirmed taxonomic identification. Field surveys carried out between April...
Abstract The Red Sea is a maritime rift. Tsunamigenic submarine landslides are common in these deep, steep‐sided, and seismically active basins. Because the rift narrow, tsunami formed on one margin dissipate little before impacting opposite side. slope failures therefore especially hazardous. We examine tsunamigenic potential of an incipient landslide Tiran Straits that started, but then stopped after short distance. Radiometric biotic analyses fix age this to within last 500 years. Tsunami...