A5070180936- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Nematode management and characterization studies
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and environmental studies
- Coastal wetland ecosystem dynamics
- Water Treatment and Disinfection
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Urban Stormwater Management Solutions
- Diatoms and Algae Research
- Chemistry and Stereochemistry Studies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Water Systems and Optimization
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Oil Spill Detection and Mitigation
- Coastal and Marine Dynamics
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Fecal contamination and water quality
- Educational Systems and Policies
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
University of Nevada, Reno
2023-2025
National Research Council
2024
National Research Council
2013-2023
Ifremer
2017-2022
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2022
Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin
2021
Université de Bretagne Occidentale
2021
Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
2021
Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique
2021
Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
2013-2018
This paper identifies the top-50 priority questions for meiofaunal research, highlighting their critical roles in biogeochemical cycles and biodiversity. It calls a balanced research agenda, international cooperation, advances technology to overcome current challenges unlock meiofauna's full potential.
Marine nematodes possess all the prerequisites to serve as “simpler models” for investigating biological phenomena and are gaining attention emerging model organisms. This review evaluates their potential address diverse questions regarding ecosystem functioning, climate change adaptation, host–microbe interactions, ecotoxicology, biotechnological applications. Among reviewed taxa, Litoditis marina select Monhysteridae species, such Diplolaimella dievengatensis, Halomonhystera disjuncta,...
More than 80% of wastewaters are discharged into rivers or seas, with a negative impact on water quality along the coast due to presence potential pathogens faecal origin. Escherichia coli and enterococci important indicators assess, monitor, predict microbial in natural ecosystems. During rainfall events, amount wastewater delivered coastal systems is increased dramatically. This study implements measures capable monitoring pathways discharge transport bacteria area during following extreme...
The occurrence of hydrothermal vent ecosystems at Secca delle Fumose, Pozzuoli Bay (Gulf Naples), represented an opportunity to study the benthic assemblages under thermal stress emissions in a very shallow environment (9 – 14 m water depth). In autumn 2016, macrobenthic community was sampled by scuba divers four sites located Baia Underwater Archaeological Park. Two were characterized (one with white bacterial mat scattered on bottom and one yellow substrate around geyser opening) two about...
The Deepwater Horizon (DWH) blowout and oil spill began on April 20, 2010 in the northern Gulf of Mexico (NGOM) deep sea (1525 m). Previous studies documented an impacted area deep-sea floor totaling 321 km
The large-scale deep-sea biodiversity distribution of the benthic fauna was explored in Mediterranean Sea, which can be seen as a miniature model oceans world. Within framework BIOFUN project ("Biodiversity and Ecosystem Functioning Contrasting Southern European Deep-sea Environments: from viruses to megafauna"), we investigated large spatial scale variability (over >1,000 km) bathyal macrofauna communities that inhabit basin, their relationships with environmental variables. abundance,...
The deep-sea represents a substantial portion of the biosphere and has major influence on carbon cycling global biogeochemistry. Benthic prokaryotes have crucial roles in this ecosystem, with their recycling organic matter from photic zone. Despite this, little is known about large-scale distribution surface sediments. To assess environmental trophic variables prokaryotes, we investigated prokaryotic assemblage composition (Bacteria to Archaea Euryarchaeota Crenarchaeota ratio) activity...
The global scale of the biodiversity crisis has stimulated research into relationship between and ecosystem functioning (BEF). Even though deep sea is largest biome on Earth, BEF studies in deep-sea benthic ecosystems are scant. Moreover, small number recent studies, which mostly focus meiobenthic nematodes, report conflicting results that range from a very clear positive to none at all. In this study, macrofauna were used as model investigate structural functional diversity assemblages...
The aim of this study is to develop a relocatable modelling system able describe the microbial contamination that affects quality coastal bathing waters. Pollution events are mainly triggered by urban sewer outflows during massive rainy events, with relevant negative consequences on marine environment and tourism related activities towns. A finite element hydrodynamic model was applied five areas in Adriatic Sea, which differ for urban, oceanographic morphological conditions. With help...
Bioindicators assess the mangroves ecological state according to types of pressures but they differ with ecosystem’s specificities. We investigated benthic meiofauna diversity and structure within low human-impacted in French Guiana (South America) response sediment variables various distances main city. Contaminant’s concentrations differed among stations, remained below toxicity guidelines. Meiofauna (Foraminifera, Kinorhyncha, Nematoda) however varied accordingly. Nematode’s...
Hydrothermal venting is rather prevalent in many marine areas around the world, and shallow vents are relatively abundant Mediterranean Sea, especially Italy. However, investigations focusing on characterization of meiofaunal organisms inhabiting vent sediments still scant compared to that macrofauna. In present study, we investigated meiobenthic assemblages nematode diversity Secca delle Fumose (SdF), a water area located Gulf Naples (Italy). this area, characterized by rapid change...
Epibiosis is a common phenomenon in marine systems. In environments, ciliates are among the most organisms adopting an epibiotic habitus and nematodes have been frequently reported as their basibionts. present study, we report several new records of peritrich suctorian ciliates-nematode association worldwide: from deep-sea pockmark field NW Madagascar margin (Indian Ocean), shallow vent area Gulf Naples (Mediterranean, Tyrrhenian Sea), MPA Trieste Adriatic mangrove system French Guiana...
One of the most important pieces climate change evidence is ocean acidification. Acidification effects on marine organisms are widely studied, while very little known regarding its assemblages’ β-diversity. In this framework, shallow hydrothermal vents within a Marine Protected Area (MPA) represent natural ecosystems acting as laboratory set-ups where continuous carbon dioxide emissions affect assemblages with consequences that can be reasonably comparable to global water The aim present...