A5015771419- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Echinoderm biology and ecology
- Parasite Biology and Host Interactions
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Species Distribution and Climate Change
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Economic and Environmental Valuation
- Aquaculture disease management and microbiota
- Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry
- Vibrio bacteria research studies
- Marine Sponges and Natural Products
- Malaria Research and Control
- Genetic diversity and population structure
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
University of Seychelles
2022
University of Milano-Bicocca
2018-2021
Marine Research Centre
2014-2021
Institut Català de Ciències del Clima
2016
Institut de Ciències del Mar
2016
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas
2016
Climate change and biological invasions are rapidly reshuffling species distribution, restructuring the communities of many ecosystems worldwide. Tracking these transformations in marine environment is crucial, but our understanding climate effects invasive dynamics often hampered by practical challenge surveying large geographical areas. Here, we focus on Mediterranean Sea, a hot spot for to investigate recent spatiotemporal changes fish abundances distribution. To this end, accessed local...
Coral reefs are declining worldwide as a result of the effects multiple natural and anthropogenic stressors, including regional-scale temperature-induced coral bleaching. Such events have caused significant mortality, leading to an evident structural collapse shifts in associated benthic communities. In this scenario, reasonable mapping techniques best practices critical improving data collection describe spatial temporal patterns after bleaching impact. Our study employed potential...
Abstract Corallivory causes considerable damage to coral reefs and can exacerbate other disturbances. Among predators, Drupella spp. are considered as delayer of recovery in the Republic Maldives, although little information is available on their ecology. Thus, we aimed assess population structure, feeding behaviour spatial distribution around 2 years after a bleaching event 2016. Biological environmental data were collected using belt line intercept transects six shallow Maldives. The...
Small island nations like the Maldives are highly dependent on healthy coral reefs and ecosystem services they provide. Lately, Maldivian have experienced considerable degradation as a result of severe mass bleaching events accumulating threats posed by pollution, human development, diseases, outbreaks corallivores. Coral restoration can be useful mitigation tool in assisting natural recovery, especially when economically important reef areas such resort poor health with slow recovery. This...
The need for comprehensive and effective coral restoration projects, as part of a broader conservation management strategy, is accelerating in the face reef ecosystem decline. This study aims to expand currently limited knowledge base techniques Maldives by testing performance mid-water rope nurseries lagoon habitat. We examined whether different farming habitats impacted fragment survival, health growth two genera how occurrence mutualistic fauna, predation disease influenced rearing...
Green fluorescence is a common phenomenon in marine invertebrates and caused by green fluorescent proteins. Many hydrozoan species display their polyps and/or medusa stages, few cases patterns of have been demonstrated to differ between closely related species. Hydrozoans are often characterized the presence cryptic species, due paucity available morphological diagnostic characters. Zanclea not an exception, showing high genetic divergence compared uniform morphology. In this work,...
Coral restoration initiatives are gaining significant momentum in a global effort to enhance the recovery of degraded coral reefs. However, implementation and upkeep nurseries particularly demanding, so that unforeseen breaks maintenance operations might jeopardize well‐established projects. In last 2 years, COVID‐19 pandemic has resulted temporary yet prolonged abandonment several gardening infrastructures worldwide, including remote localities. Here we provide first assessment potential...
DATA REPORT article Front. Mar. Sci., 06 July 2022Sec. Global Change and the Future Ocean https://doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2022.910887
A major problem worldwide is the rapid change in species abundance and distribution, which rapidly restructuring biological communities of many ecosystems under changing climates. Tracking these transformations marine environment crucial but our understanding often hampered by absence historical data practical challenge survey large geographical areas. Here we focus on Mediterranean Sea, a region warming faster than rest global ocean, tracing back spatio-temporal dynamic species, are...
Coral restoration plays a pivotal role in mitigating the decline of coral reefs, increasing need for implementing effective techniques and methodologies. This study investigates efficacy stocking Acropora muricata Pocillopora grandis using fishing line versus rope mid‐water floating nurseries, offering valuable insights practitioners. Over 1 year, survival, tissue cover, growth, cleaning time, cost, preparation, timing both methods were evaluated. Fishing reduced contact with fouling...
The cushion seastars Culcita spp.are facultative corallivores that can feed on different coral species.In Maldives, they showed general preference for small colonies and recruits belonging to the genera Pocillopora Pavona (Montalbetti et al. 2019).Contrary what has been described most investigated predator Acanthaster spp., large population densities of spp.have never recorded date, since seastar abundances have reported be less than 0.5 individuals per 100 m 2 average, although these...
The fast decline of coastal habitats happening worldwide is pushing for active restoration measures to mitigate the effects anthropogenic impacts. In Mediterranean Sea, meadows endemic seagrass Posidonia oceanica are declining mostly due human activities carried out along coast. Given high conservation value this habitat, several transplanting efforts have been attempted in last decades slow down general and enhance recovery stressed meadows. study, we applied a new technique transplant P....
Culcita spp.are facultative corallivores occurring throughout the Indo-Pacific Ocean.In Maldives, C. schmideliana (Bruzelius, 1805) was reported as one of main contributors to a delay in coral recovery after 2016 bleaching event and resulting mortality, due large densities specimens recorded their preferential predation on recruits (Bruckner Coward 2019).To date, little information is available timing controlling factors reproductive cycle seastar, with only few reports spawning wild (Otha...
Phycocaris simulans (Kemp 1916) is the only species in genus (family Hippolytidae).It commonly known as hairy shrimp due to extreme camouflage that closely resembles small turf of algae within which it can often be found (Johnson 1989;Gan and Li 2017).Phycocaris was originally described by Kemp (1916) from Andaman Islands more recently Gan (2017) Hainan Island South China Sea, although a few reports have been published (e.g.Johnson 1989; Preston Doherty 1990).To date, geographic distribution...