Search Results - "Piazzi, Luigi"

The constraint of ignoring the subtidal water climatology in evaluating the changes of coralligenous reefs due to heating events by Ceccherelli, Giulia, Pinna, Federico, Pansini, Arianna, Piazzi, Luigi, La Manna, Gabriella

“…Predicting community-level responses to seawater warming is a pressing goal of global change ecologists. How far such predictions can be derived from a fine…”
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Eutrophication affects the resistance of fucoids to an introduced alga spread by Luigi, Piazzi, Giulia, Ceccherelli

“…This study investigates whether eutrophication can affect the capacity of the canopy alga Cystoseira brachycarpa to impede or limit the spread of the…”
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Infralittoral coralligenous reefs: structure and spatial variability of macroalgal assemblages by Piazzi, Luigi, Pacciardi, Lorenzo, Pertusati, Marco, Pretti, Carlo, De Biasi, Anna Maria

“…Coralligenous reefs are calcareous structures edified mostly by coralline algae that characterize the circalittoral zone of the Mediterranean Sea. However, in…”
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Immanent conditions determine imminent collapses: nutrient regimes define the resilience of macroalgal communities by Boada, Jordi, Arthur, Rohan, Alonso, David, Pagès, Jordi F., Pessarrodona, Albert, Oliva, Silvia, Ceccherelli, Giulia, Piazzi, Luigi, Romero, Javier, Alcoverro, Teresa

“…Predicting where state-changing thresholds lie can be inherently complex in ecosystems characterized by nonlinear dynamics. Unpacking the mechanisms underlying…”
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Animal Forest Mortality: Following the Consequences of a Gorgonian Coral Loss on a Mediterranean Coralligenous Assemblage by Piazzi, Luigi, Atzori, Fabrizio, Cadoni, Nicoletta, Cinti, Maria Francesca, Frau, Francesca, Pansini, Arianna, Pinna, Federico, Stipcich, Patrizia, Ceccherelli, Giulia

“…In this work, the consequences of a local gorgonian coral mortality on the whole coralligenous assemblage were studied. A Before/After-Control/Impact sampling…”
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Inconsistency in community structure and ecological quality between platform and cliff coralligenous assemblages by Piazzi, Luigi, Ferrigno, Federica, Guala, Ivan, Cinti, Maria Francesca, Conforti, Alessandro, De Falco, Giovanni, De Luca, Mario, Grech, Daniele, La Manna, Gabriella, Pascucci, Vincenzo, Pansini, Arianna, Pinna, Federico, Pireddu, Laura, Puccini, Alessandra, Russo, Giovanni Fulvio, Sandulli, Roberto, Santonastaso, Antonio, Simeone, Simone, Stelletti, Myriam, Stipcich, Patrizia, Ceccherelli, Giulia

“…•Structure and ecological quality of coralligenous cliff and platform were assessed.•Six geographic areas around Sardinia were considered.•The ecological…”
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The Seagrass Effect Turned Upside Down Changes the Prospective of Sea Urchin Survival and Landscape Implications by Farina, Simone, Guala, Ivan, Oliva, Silvia, Piazzi, Luigi, Pires da Silva, Rodrigo, Ceccherelli, Giulia

“…Habitat structure plays an important mediating role in predator-prey interactions. However the effects are strongly dependent on regional predator pools, which…”
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Mobile epifaunal assemblages associated with Cystoseira beds: comparison between areas invaded and not invaded by Lophocladia lallemandii by Bedini, Roberto, Bonechi, Lisa, Piazzi, Luigi

“…The study compared the structure of mobile epifaunal assemblages associated with Mediterranean Cystoseira beds between areas invaded and not invaded by…”
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Coralligenous banks along the western and northern continental shelf of Sardinia Island (Mediterranean Sea) by De Falco, Giovanni, Conforti, Alessandro, Brambilla, Walter, Budillon, Francesca, Ceccherelli, Giulia, De Luca, Mario, Di Martino, Gabriella, Guala, Ivan, Innangi, Sara, Pascucci, Vincenzo, Piazzi, Luigi, Pireddu, Laura, Santonastaso, Antonio, Tonielli, Renato, Simeone, Simone

“…Mapping of coralligenous banks was carried out along the continental shelf of the northern and western margin of Sardinia Island (Italy, western Mediterranean…”
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The Mediterranean bioconstructor Lithophyllum stictiforme shows adaptability to future warming by Pinna, Federico, Caragnano, Annalisa, Piazzi, Luigi, Ragazzola, Federica, Stipcich, Patrizia, Rindi, Fabio, Ceccherelli, Giulia

“…Understanding how coralline algae may acclimatize to ocean warming is important to understand their survival over the coming century. Taking advantage of…”
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Nutrient conditions determine the strength of herbivore‐mediated stabilizing feedbacks in barrens by Illa‐López, Laia, Aubach‐Masip, Àlex, Alcoverro, Teresa, Ceccherelli, Giulia, Piazzi, Luigi, Kleitou, Periklis, Santamaría, Jorge, Verdura, Jana, Sanmartí, Neus, Mayol, Elvira, Buñuel, Xavi, Minguito‐Frutos, Mario, Bulleri, Fabio, Boada, Jordi

“…Abiotic environmental conditions can significantly influence the way species interact. In particular, plant–herbivore interactions can be substantially…”
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Environmental Engineering Techniques to Restore Degraded Posidonia oceanica Meadows by Piazzi, Luigi, Acunto, Stefano, Frau, Francesca, Atzori, Fabrizio, Cinti, Maria Francesca, Leone, Laura, Ceccherelli, Giulia

“…Seagrass planting techniques have shown to be an effective tool for restoring degraded meadows and ecosystem function. In the Mediterranean Sea, most…”
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Coralligenous habitat: patterns of vertical distribution of macroalgal assemblages by Piazzi, Luigi, Balata, David

“…The present study investigates patterns of distribution of macroalgal coralligenous assemblages in relation to depth and evaluates the role of different…”
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Modeling Macroalgal Forest Distribution at Mediterranean Scale: Present Status, Drivers of Changes and Insights for Conservation and Management by Fabbrizzi, Erika, Scardi, Michele, Ballesteros, Enric, Benedetti-Cecchi, Lisandro, Cebrian, Emma, Ceccherelli, Giulia, De Leo, Francesco, Deidun, Alan, Guarnieri, Giuseppe, Falace, Annalisa, Fraissinet, Silvia, Giommi, Chiara, Mačić, Vesna, Mangialajo, Luisa, Mannino, Anna Maria, Piazzi, Luigi, Ramdani, Mohamed, Rilov, Gil, Rindi, Luca, Rizzo, Lucia, Sarà, Gianluca, Souissi, Jamila Ben, Taskin, Ergun, Fraschetti, Simonetta

“…Macroalgal forests are one of the most productive and valuable marine ecosystems, but yet strongly exposed to fragmentation and loss. Detailed large-scale…”
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Sea urchin harvest inside marine protected areas: an opportunity to investigate the effects of exploitation where trophic upgrading is achieved by Ceccherelli, Giulia, Addis, Piero, Atzori, Fabrizio, Cadoni, Nicoletta, Casu, Marco, Coppa, Stefania, De Luca, Mario, de Lucia, Giuseppe Andrea, Farina, Simone, Fois, Nicola, Frau, Francesca, Gazale, Vittorio, Grech, Daniele, Guala, Ivan, Mariani, Mariano, Marras, Massimo Sg, Navone, Augusto, Pansini, Arianna, Panzalis, Pieraugusto, Pinna, Federico, Ruiu, Alberto, Scarpa, Fabio, Piazzi, Luigi

“…Marine protected areas (MPAs) usually have both positive effects of protection for the fisheries' target species and indirect negative effects for sea urchins…”
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Multiple indices on different habitats and descriptors provide consistent assessments of environmental quality in a marine protected area by Oprandi, Alice, Atzori, Fabrizio, Azzola, Annalisa, Bianchi, Carlo Nike, Cadoni, Nicoletta, Carosso, Lara, Desiderà, Elena, Frau, Francesca, Garcia Gutiérrez, Maria Leonor, Guidetti, Paolo, Morri, Carla, Piazzi, Luigi, Poli, Federica, Montefalcone, Monica

“…In the last decades, climate change and human pressures have increasingly and dramatically impacted the ocean worldwide, calling for urgent actions to…”
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Effectiveness of different investigation procedures in detecting anthropogenic impacts on coralligenous assemblages by Piazzi, Luigi, Balata, David, Cecchi, Enrico, Gennaro, Paola, Serena, Fabrizio

“…Coralligenous habitat is one of the most important and sensitive habitats of the Mediterranean Sea and several different sampling procedures are currently used…”
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Sediment as a constituent of Mediterranean benthic communities dominated by Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea by Piazzi, Luigi, Balata, David, Foresi, Luca, Cristaudo, Cristina, Cinelli, Francesco

“…Mediterranean macroalgal assemblages in areas invaded and non-invaded by Caulerpa racemosa var. cylindracea were compared and trapped sediments were…”
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Concomitance of oligotrophy and low grazing pressure is essential for the resilience of Mediterranean subtidal forests by Piazzi, Luigi, Ceccherelli, Giulia

“…The study aimed at investigating factors influencing the recovery of the canopy seaweed Cystoseira brachycarpa. A manipulative experiment was done to test if…”
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The indirect role of nutrients in enhancing the invasion of Caulerpa racemosa var cylindracea by Gennaro, Paola, Piazzi, Luigi

“…The effects of nutrients dynamics on biological invasions in marine habitats have not been fully investigated. The present study aimed to evaluate the role of…”
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