Search Results - "M. Taviani"

Drawing the borders of the mesophotic zone of the Mediterranean Sea using satellite data by Castellan, Giorgio, Angeletti, L., Montagna, P., Taviani, M.

“…The 30–150 m bathymetric range is commonly adopted in the literature to constrain the mesophotic zone. However, such depth interval varies depending on…”
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Seismic Hazards Implications of Uplifted Pleistocene Coral Terraces in the Gulf of Aqaba by Bosworth, W., Montagna, P., Pons-Branchu, E., Rasul, N., Taviani, M.

“…The Gulf of Aqaba transform plate boundary is a source of destructive teleseismic earthquakes. Seismicity is concentrated in the central sub-basin and…”
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Biodiversity of the white coral bank off Cape Santa Maria di Leuca (Mediterranean Sea): An update by Mastrototaro, F., D’Onghia, G., Corriero, G., Matarrese, A., Maiorano, P., Panetta, P., Gherardi, M., Longo, C., Rosso, A., Sciuto, F., Sanfilippo, R., Gravili, C., Boero, F., Taviani, M., Tursi, A.

“…The biodiversity of the Santa Maria di Leuca (SML) coral bank is summarized and its description is updated using data collected by means of underwater video…”
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The influence of temperature and seawater carbonate saturation state on 13C-18O bond ordering in bivalve mollusks by Eagle, R A, Eiler, J M, Tripati, A K, Ries, J B, Freitas, P S, Hiebenthal, C, Jr, A D. Wanamaker, Taviani, M, Elliot, M, Marenssi, S, Nakamura, K, Ramirez, P, Roy, K

“…The shells of marine mollusks are widely used archives of past climate and ocean chemistry. Whilst the measurement of mollusk δ18 O to develop records of past…”
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Predictive habitat modeling in two Mediterranean canyons including hydrodynamic variables by Bargain, A., Foglini, F., Pairaud, I., Bonaldo, D., Carniel, S., Angeletti, L., Taviani, M., Rochette, S., Fabri, M.C.

“…•CWC settlement was studied in two Mediterranean canyons using three habitat suitability models.•Hydrodynamic models have been used in the habitat suitability…”
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Calcification rates and the effect of ocean acidification on Mediterranean cold-water corals by Maier, C, Watremez, P, Taviani, M, Weinbauer, M. G, Gattuso, J. P

“…Global environmental changes, including ocean acidification, have been identified as a major threat to scleractinian corals. General predictions are that ocean…”
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Environmental forcing of the Campeche cold-water coral province, southern Gulf of Mexico by Hebbeln, D, Wienberg, C, Wintersteller, P, Freiwald, A, Becker, M, Beuck, L, Dullo, C, Eberli, G. P, Glogowski, S, Matos, L, Forster, N, Reyes-Bonilla, H, Taviani, M

“…With an extension of > 40 km2 the recently discovered Campeche cold-water coral province located at the northeastern rim of the Campeche Bank in the southern…”
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Reprint of 'On and off the beaten track: Megafaunal sessile life and Adriatic cascading processes' by Taviani, M., Angeletti, L., Beuck, L., Campiani, E., Canese, S., Foglini, F., Freiwald, A., Montagna, P., Trincardi, F.

“…Valuable megafaunal sessile assemblages in the southern Adriatic basin present a western–eastern asymmetric distribution. This is particularly evident when…”
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The Gela Basin pockmark field in the strait of Sicily (Mediterranean Sea): chemosymbiotic faunal and carbonate signatures of postglacial to modern cold seepage by Taviani, M, Angeletti, L, Ceregato, A, Foglini, F, Froglia, C, Trincardi, F

“…The geo-biological exploration of a pockmark field located at ca. 800 m below sea level in the Gela basin (Strait of Sicily, Central Mediterranean) provided a…”
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Towards a marine strategy for the deep Mediterranean Sea: Analysis of current ecological status by Danovaro, R., Fanelli, E., Canals, M., Ciuffardi, T., Fabri, M.-C., Taviani, M., Argyrou, M., Azzurro, E., Bianchelli, S., Cantafaro, A., Carugati, L., Corinaldesi, C., de Haan, W.P., Dell’Anno, A., Evans, J., Foglini, F., Galil, B., Gianni, M., Goren, M., Greco, S., Grimalt, J., Güell-Bujons, Q., Jadaud, A., Knittweis, L., Lopez, J.L., Sanchez-Vidal, A., Schembri, P.J., Snelgrove, P., Vaz, S., Angeletti, L., Barsanti, M., Borg, J.A., Bosso, M., Brind'Amour, A., Castellan, G., Conte, F., Delbono, I., Galgani, F., Morgana, G., Prato, S., Schirone, A., Soldevila, E.

“…The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD), introduced in June 2008, was adopted to achieve a Good Environmental Status (GES) in the EU's marine waters and…”
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Elemental systematics of the calcitic skeleton of Corallium rubrum and implications for the Mg/Ca temperature proxy by Chaabane, S., López Correa, M., Ziveri, P., Trotter, J., Kallel, N., Douville, E., McCulloch, M., Taviani, M., Linares, C., Montagna, P.

“…The high-Mg calcite skeleton of Corallium rubrum was analyzed from living colonies collected from a wide range of depths (15 m to 607 m) and environmental…”
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Serpula aggregates and their role in deep-sea coral communities in the southern Adriatic Sea by Sanfilippo, R., Vertino, A., Rosso, A., Beuck, L., Freiwald, A., Taviani, M.

“…We document a remarkable abundance of the tubeworm Serpula vermicularis Linnaeus, 1767, in bathyal coral habitats from the Bari Canyon System in the southern…”
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Trophic relationships in a deep Mediterranean cold-water coral bank (Santa Maria di Leuca, Ionian Sea) by Carlier, A., Le Guilloux, E., Olu, K., Sarrazin, J., Mastrototaro, F., Taviani, M., Clavier, J.

“…Cold-water corals (CWC) are frequently reported from deep sites with locally accelerated currents that enhance seabed food particle supply. Moreover,…”
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Deep-water scleractinian corals promote higher biodiversity in deep-sea meiofaunal assemblages along continental margins by Bongiorni, L., Mea, M., Gambi, C., Pusceddu, A., Taviani, M., Danovaro, R.

“…Deep-water coral ecosystems are hot spots of biodiversity and provide habitats and refuges for several deep-sea species. However, their role in shaping the…”
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What are we protecting? An analysis of the current conservation framework addressing Mediterranean mesophotic habitats by Castellan, G., Abbiati, M., Angeletti, L., Foglini, F., Grande, V., Montagna, P., Taviani, M.

“…Mesophotic ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea are biodiversity hotspots distributed from ca 30 m down to 180 m, depending upon the depth of the light…”
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The impact of cascading currents on the Bari Canyon System, SW-Adriatic Margin (Central Mediterranean) by Trincardi, F., Foglini, F., Verdicchio, G., Asioli, A., Correggiari, A., Minisini, D., Piva, A., Remia, A., Ridente, D., Taviani, M.

“…The Bari Canyon System (BCS) is a peculiar erosional–depositional feature characterised by two main, almost parallel, conduits emanating from a broad…”
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Antarctic records of precession-paced insolation-driven warming during early Pleistocene Marine Isotope Stage 31 by Scherer, R. P., Bohaty, S. M., Dunbar, R. B., Esper, O., Flores, J.-A., Gersonde, R., Harwood, D. M., Roberts, A. P., Taviani, M.

“…Precisely dated Antarctic continental margin and Southern Ocean geological records show that the early Pleistocene interglacial Marine Isotope Stage 31…”
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The “chimney forest” of the deep Montenegrin margin, south-eastern Adriatic Sea by Angeletti, L., Canese, S., Franchi, F., Montagna, P., Reitner, J., Walliser, E.O., Taviani, M.

“…A spectacular field of columnar carbonates has been discovered on the Montenegrin margin in the southern Adriatic Sea at a depth of about 450 m. The site…”
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Aerobic and anaerobic methane oxidation in terrestrial mud volcanoes in the Northern Apennines by Wrede, C., Brady, S., Rockstroh, S., Dreier, A., Kokoschka, S., Heinzelmann, S.M., Heller, C., Reitner, J., Taviani, M., Daniel, R., Hoppert, M.

“…Methane oxidizing prokaryotes are ubiquitous in oxic and anoxic habitats wherever C1-compounds are present. Thus, methane saturated mud volcano fluids should…”
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Exploring the oxygen and carbon isotopic composition of the Mediterranean red coral (Corallium rubrum) for seawater temperature reconstruction by Chaabane, S., López Correa, M., Montagna, P., Kallel, N., Taviani, M., Linares, C., Ziveri, P.

“…Here we provide first evidence that the stable oxygen and carbon isotopic composition (δ18O, δ13C) of the high-magnesium calcite skeleton red coral Corallium…”
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