FRANCESCO MASSA

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Seamounts represent ecologically important marine environments and undeniably play a crucial role in the functioning of the deep-sea ecosystems, thanks primarily to their contribution in supporting offshore benthic and pelagic biodiversity. In the last decades, these features have received attention in all oceans of the world, but they were...

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Over the past few decades, efforts were addressed to the understanding of the link between ecosystems and human well-being. Gradually, humans began to perceive that changes imposed to nature by their activities provoke effects, direct or indirect, on all components of well-being. From this perception, the concepts of Ecosystem Services (ES) and...

Trophic relationships significantly influence ecosystem functioning, ultimately affecting populations' abundance, size structure and distribution. There is still a substantial knowledge gap on the trophic ecology of deep-sea organisms, particularly those living in the mesophotic depths (30–150 m), despite their crucial importance as ecosystem...

Recreational boating is a worldwide leisure activity playing an important role in the context of coastal economy but also causing significant damage on the environment, above all in the absence of adequate management measures. Among the damages, the anchoring on sensitive habitats, with the consequent loss of structural complexity, density,...