A5031709104- Marine animal studies overview
- Ichthyology and Marine Biology
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine and fisheries research
- Wheat and Barley Genetics and Pathology
- Genetic Mapping and Diversity in Plants and Animals
- Fish Biology and Ecology Studies
- Cephalopods and Marine Biology
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Animal Vocal Communication and Behavior
- Underwater Acoustics Research
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Political Theory and Influence
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Plant Disease Resistance and Genetics
- Fish biology, ecology, and behavior
- European Political History Analysis
- Effects and risks of endocrine disrupting chemicals
- Arctic and Antarctic ice dynamics
- Turtle Biology and Conservation
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Historical and Environmental Studies
Tethys Research Institute
2016-2025
International Union for Conservation of Nature
2016-2025
University of Bologna
2018-2024
International Union for Conservation of Nature (Bangladesh)
2008-2023
National Trust
2023
Government of Catalonia
2017
Université Paris 8
2017
University of Genoa
2015
Istituto Centrale per la Ricerca Scientifica e Tecnologica Applicata al Mare
1999-2005
I.R.C.C.S. Oasi Maria SS
2001-2002
Understanding the rich social lives of animals benefits international conservation efforts
ABSTRACT Migratory marine species (MMS) include many of the world's most charismatic organisms such as mammals, seabirds, turtles, sharks, and tuna. Many are now among threatened due to diverse range pressures they encounter during their extensive movements. This paper shows that 21% MMS classified (i.e. categorized Critically Endangered, Endangered or Vulnerable). Sea turtles group (85%), followed by seabirds (27%), cartilaginous fish (26%), mammals (15%) bony (11%). Taken together 48%...
A key goal of conservation is to protect biodiversity by supporting the long-term persistence viable, natural populations wild species. Conservation practice has long been guided genetic, ecological and demographic indicators risk. Emerging evidence animal culture across diverse taxa its role as a driver evolutionary diversification, population structure processes may be essential for augmenting these conventional approaches decision-making. Animal was focus ground-breaking resolution under...
In 1999, the Italian Central Institute for Applied Marine Research (ICRAM), in response to reports made by local fisheries, began a study into interactions between common bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and artisanal fishery Asinara Island National Park (Sardinia). Using onboard observers, fishing boat surveys were carried out determine frequency of interactions, variations catch target species damage two different types trammel net caused dolphins. Interactions occurred primarily...
Samples were collected from 407 fin whales, Balaenoptera physalus , at four North Atlantic and one Mediterranean Sea summer feeding area as well the of Cortez in Pacific Ocean. For each sample, sex, sequence first 288 nucleotides mitochondrial (mt) control region genotype six microsatellite loci determined. A significant degree divergence was detected all nuclear mt between Atlantic/Mediterranean Cortez. However, time estimated sequences substantially lower than elapsed since rise Panama...
Abstract In February 2002, France, Italy and Monaco agreed to establish an international sanctuary for Mediterranean marine mammals. The resulting Pelagos Sanctuary encompasses over 87500 km 2 of the north‐western Sea, extending between south‐eastern Monaco, northern Sardinia, surrounding Corsica Tuscan Archipelago. illustrates how tenets Marine Protected Area (MPA) design can be reconciled with dynamic nature oceanic systems, because its spatial scale was defined by oceanographic ecological...
Abstract: Two sperm whales tagged with acoustic transponder tags were tracked by sonar during a cruise from 16 to 30 October 1991 in the southeast Caribbean west of Dominica Island. The dove depths 400–600 m and more, including dive 1,185 one possibly 2,000 m. They for periods 3–14 h, over distances 8.5–40 km. found together four eight days after tagging, simultaneously 13 31 Whale movements on different at surface averaged 0.68 0.82 m/set, descent rates 1.13 ascent 0.74 1.16 horizontal...
A bstract bottlenose dolphin community was studied from small inflatable craft 1987 to 1994 in a relatively large area (about 800 km 2 ) east of the islands Loˇsinj and Cres, northern Adriatic Sea. total 106 individuals were photoidentified based on natural permanent marks their dorsal fins. Most dolphins resighted regular basis, indicating high level year‐round site fidelity, although range evidently greater than chosen study area. Dolphin density highly variable considerably lower for most...
This paper could not have been written without the financial and organizational support from Dieter Paulmann Jo Hastie respectively. Thanks are also due to two anonymous reviewers, whose comments on an earlier version of manuscript greatly improved paper. The views expressed in this those authors alone do represent Stellwagen Bank National Marine Sanctuary, U.S. Sanctuary Program, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, Service, NOAA and/or any other institution or agency. Correspondence...
Abstract Manta and devil rays of the subfamily Mobulinae (mobulids) are rarely studied, large, pelagic elasmobranchs, with all eight well‐evaluated species listed on IUCN Red List as threatened or near threatened. Mobulids have life history characteristics (matrotrophic reproduction, extremely low fecundity, delayed age first reproduction) that make them exceptionally susceptible to overexploitation. Targeted bycatch mortality from fisheries is a globally important increasing threat,...
Manta and devil rays are filter-feeding elasmobranchs that found circumglobally in tropical subtropical waters. Although relatively understudied for most of the 20th century, public awareness scientific research on these species has increased dramatically recent years. Much this attention been response to targeted fisheries, international trade mobulid products, a growing concern over fate exploited populations. Despite progress research, major knowledge gaps still exist, hindering...
High-throughput phenotyping platforms (HTPPs) provide novel opportunities to more effectively dissect the genetic basis of drought-adaptive traits. This genome-wide association study (GWAS) compares results obtained with two Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) and a ground-based platform used measure Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI) in panel 248 elite durum wheat (Triticum turgidum L. ssp. Desf.) accessions at different growth stages water regimes. Our suggest increased ability...
The distributions of migratory species in the ocean span local, national and international jurisdictions. Across these ecologically interconnected regions, marine interact with anthropogenic stressors throughout their lives. Migratory connectivity, geographical linking individuals populations cycles, influences how spatial temporal dynamics affect animals scale up to influence population abundance, distribution persistence. Population declines many have led calls for connectivity knowledge,...
Abstract The generally accepted model of Mysticete whale migration is that most individuals undertake seasonal migrations between high and low latitudes. Although numerous exceptions have been described in the literature, traditional remains unexamined. This paper represents first ‘official’ challenge to migration. We set out review current state knowledge on Mediterranean fin migratory pattern, examine whether small, resident population an anomaly within framework investigated prevalence...
International trade for luxury products, medicines, and tonics poses a threat to both terrestrial marine wildlife. The demand consumption of gill plates (known as Peng Yu Sai, "Fish Gill Mobulid Ray") from devil manta rays (subfamily Mobulinae, collectively referred mobulids) significant these fishes because their extremely low productivity. has driven an international supplied by largely unmonitored unregulated catches target incidental fisheries around the world. Scientific research,...
Abstract Place‐based conservation can be an effective tool for addressing threats to marine mammals, but this approach presents many challenges, such as the dilemma of whether aim protection at appropriately large scales or through networks smaller protected areas, and how address socio‐economic conditions human societies whose welfare may conflict with mammal survival. Protecting places conserve mammals started about 50 years ago, when first parks reserves were established protect critical...