A5071625627- Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Marine animal studies overview
- Physiological and biochemical adaptations
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Atmospheric chemistry and aerosols
- Urban Planning and Valuation
- 3D Surveying and Cultural Heritage
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Underwater Vehicles and Communication Systems
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Water Quality Monitoring Technologies
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Textile materials and evaluations
University of Palermo
2015-2025
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
2020-2025
CoNISMa
2016-2020
Terra
2014-2019
Ecological Society of America
2018
John Wiley & Sons (United States)
2018
Institute for Coastal Marine Environment
2015
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2014
Abstract Understanding how marine organisms will be affected by global change is of primary importance to ensure ecosystem functioning and nature contributions people. This study meets the call for addressing life‐history traits mediate effects ocean acidification on fish. We built a database overall trait‐mediated responses teleost fish future CO 2 levels searching scientific literature. Using meta‐analytical approach, we investigated projected IPCC 2050–2070 2100 eco‐physiology behavior...
Abstract Robust assessments of taxonomic and functional diversity are essential components research programmes aimed at understanding current biodiversity patterns forecasting trajectories ecological changes. Yet, evaluating marine along its dimensions is challenging dependent on the power accuracy available data collection methods. Here we combine three traditional survey methodologies (underwater visual census strip transects [UVCt], baited underwater videos [BUV] small‐scale fishery...
Elasmobranchs are heavily impacted by fishing. Catch statistics grossly underestimated due to missing data from various fishery sectors such as small-scale fisheries. Marine Protected Areas proposed a tool protect elasmobranchs and counter their ongoing depletion. We assess caught in 1,256 fishing operations with fixed nets carried out partially protected areas within unprotected beyond borders at 11 locations 6 Mediterranean countries. Twenty-four elasmobranch species were recorded, more...
Fish exhibit impaired sensory function and altered behaviour at levels of ocean acidification expected to occur owing anthropogenic carbon dioxide emissions during this century. We provide the first evidence effects on reproductive fish in wild. Satellite sneaker male ocellated wrasse (Symphodus ocellatus) compete fertilize eggs guarded by dominant nesting males. Key mating behaviours such as courtship nest defence did not differ between sites with ambient versus elevated CO2 concentrations....
Abstract An aggregation of sandbar sharks Carcharhinus plumbeus occurs every summer around the remote uninhabited islet Lampione (Pelagie Islands Marine Protected Area, south‐western Mediterranean Sea), attracting an increasing number tourists for a shark watching experience. Despite ecological and socio‐economic importance this rare occurrence in waters, there is lack scientific data information as to potential impact tourist activities on presence behaviour species. Using baited underwater...
After news spread that endangered sharks were being openly sold off in chunks marketplaces Tunisia, more than 30 nongovernmental organizations appealed to Tunisian authorities put an end the practice (1). In response, government circulated a note fishery officials at ports enforce ban on catching, landing, and marketing of 21 out 24 species rays listed Annex II Barcelona Convention (2), pending inclusion these national legislation. This is positive step protection species, given Tunisia has...
Ocean acidification (OA) may have varied effects on fish eco-physiological responses. Most OA studies been carried out in laboratory conditions without considering the situ pCO2/pH variability documented for many marine coastal ecosystems. Using a standard otolith ageing technique, we assessed how ocean (ambient, versus end-of-century CO2 levels) can affect somatic and growth, their relationship fish. Somatic growth rates of juveniles ocellated wrasse Symphodus ocellatus living off...
Volcanic CO2 seeps provide opportunities to investigate the effects of ocean acidification on organisms in wild. To understand influence increasing concentrations metabolic rate (oxygen consumption) and development ocellated wrasse early life stages, we ran two field experiments, collecting embryos from nesting sites with different partial pressures [pCO2; ambient (∼400 µatm) high (800–1000 µatm)] reciprocally transplanting ambient- high-CO2 for 30 h. Ocellated offspring brooded conditions...
Abstract. Early-life stages play a key role in the dynamics of bipartite life cycle marine fish populations. Difficult to monitor, observations these are often scattered space and time. While Mediterranean coastlines have been surveyed, no effort has made assemble historical observations. Here we build an exhaustive compilation dispersal traits for coastal species, considering situ growth models (Di Stefano et al., 2023; https://doi.org/10.17882/91148). Our database contains over 110 000...
Abstract To increase their reproductive success, fish species have evolved various strategies, including both simple processes and more complex mechanisms that involve parental care by nest‐building. In S ymphodus ocellatus , a lives in rocky infralittoral zones of the Mediterranean Sea, during period, male builds nest within hole or crevice using fragments algae and/or sand particles. Data on nesting activity wrasses are rare, previous descriptions regarding algal composition nests provided...
Shallow and coastal aggregations of batoids are poorly documented in the Mediterranean Sea, despite being likely threatened by multiple anthropogenic pressures. We report first observations a potential summer reproductive aggregation common stingray (Dasyatis pastinaca). The recurrent presence previous years several pregnant females, mature male female with fresh bite wounds was recorded shallow waters recreational scuba divers scientists Scilla Bay (Strait Messina, Italy), location unique...
Fishes have evolved various reproductive strategies including mechanisms that involve parental care and demersal eggs laid into nests. Symphodus ocellatus has a seasonal reproduction period during which large, dominant males become territorial build nests with fragments of algae, where they attract females to spawn provide the developing eggs. Based on hypothesis S. choose habitat based some characteristics substrate, here we assessed whether, coastal area scale, distribution this species...
Abstract Conflicting results remain on how climate change affects the biological performance of different marine taxa, hindering our capacity to predict future state ecosystems. Using a novel meta-analytical approach, we tested for directional changes and deviations across responses fish invertebrates from exposure warming (OW), acidification (OA), their combination. In addition established effects calcification, survival metabolism, found in physiology, reproduction, behavior, development...