BETTI , Federico

The life cycle of the stoloniferan Cornularia cornucopiae (Pallas, 1766) (Anthozoa: Octocorallia) was studied from March 2009 to October 2010 on the rocky cliff of the Conero Promontory (North Adriatic Sea, 4334.865¢ N, 1334.320¢ E). In this area the species showed unusual high densities never recorded in other sites of the Mediterranean Sea....

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The sponge fauna of a semisubmerged cave in the Ligurian Sea was assessed and the obtained data compared with those described by M. Sarà in 1961. The number of recorded species is more than doubled in fifty years. These data are in agreement with a recently recognized increasing of importance of sponges in shallow water Mediterranean...

Paracoryne huvei is a rare encrusting hydrozoan living in the intertidal zone of the North-western Mediterranean Sea, from the Catalan coast to the Ligurian Sea. In 2014, a large bloom of P. huvei was recorded along the cliffs of the Marine Protected Area 'Isola di Bergeggi' (Ligurian Sea). The species has shown densities related to important...

During the last decades, the Mediterranean shallow-water benthic communities have experienced significant changes in taxa composition and distribution. These variations were related to a complex set of anthropogenic stressors as well as to mass mortality events starting from 1999 and related to the current climatic changes. To evaluate the...

During the last several decades, the Mediterranean littoral shallow water benthic communities have suffered significant changes in their structure and taxa composition. Despite numerous studies conducted to characterize these changes at various levels, it has always been very difficult to disentangle the effects of natural factors from...

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Deep-water fishing activities are impacting deep-water habitats worldwide, yet the extent of the damage caused is mainly unseen and not quantified. Here, we used Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV) surveys to assess the extent of fishing impacts on rocky substrata in 5 Italian regions between 50-300 m depth. Video analysis of the abundance and...

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