Publications

Peer reviewed publications since 2015

Terzin M, Villamor A, Marincich L, Matterson K, Paletta MG, Bertuccio V, Bavestrello G, Benedetti Cecchi L, Boscari E, Cerrano C, Chimienti G. Congiu L. Fraschetti S. Mastrototaro F. Ponti M, Sandulli R. et al. 2024. 2bRAD reveals fine-scale genetic structuring among populations within the Mediterranean zoanthid Parazoanthus axinellae (Schmidt, 1862). Coral Reefs: 1–14.
Cocozza di Montanara, Adele and Sandulli, Roberto. (2023) The global research on meiofauna associated to seagrasses: a bibliometric network analysis. Ecological Questions. Vol. 35, no. 1, pp. 1-15.
Ferrigno F. Rendina F.*, Sandulli R., Russo G.F. (2024). Coralligenous assemblages: research status and trends of a key Mediterranean biodiversity hotspot through bibliometric analysis. Ecological Questions, 35(1): 1-32.
Danovaro, R., Cocozza di Montanara, A., Corinaldesi, C., Dell'Anno, A., Illuminati, S., Willis, T. J., Gambi, C. (2023) Bioaccumulation and biomagnification of heavy metals in marine micro-predators. Commun Biol 6, 1206
Appolloni, L.; Pagliarani, A.; Cocozza di Montanara, A. ;Rendina, F.; Donnarumma, L.; Ciorciaro, D.; Ferrigno, F.; Di Stefano, F.; Sandulli, R.; Russo, G.F. Benthic Fish Communities Associated with Posidonia oceanica Beds May Reveal the Fishing Impact and Effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas: Two Case Studies in the Southern Tyrrhenian Sea. Water 2023, 15, 1967. doi: 10.3390/w15101967
Rendina F, Falace A, Alongi G, Buia MC, Neiva J, Appolloni L, Marletta G, Russo GF. (2023). The Lush Fucales Underwater Forests off the Cilento Coast : An Overlooked Mediterranean Biodiversity Hotspot. Plants 12: 1–12.
Adele Cocozza di Montanara, Elisa Baldrighi, Annalisa Franzo, Linda Catani, Eleonora Grassi, Roberto Sandulli, Federica Semprucci. (2022), Free-living nematodes research: state of the art, prospects, and future directions. A bibliometric analysis approach. Ecological Informatics, Volume 72, 101891, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoinf.2022.101891.
Linda Catani, Eleonora Grassi, Adele Cocozza di Montanara, Loretta Guidi, Roberto Sandulli, Barbara Manachini, Federica Semprucci (2022), Essential oils and their applications in agriculture and agricultural products: A literature analysis through VOSviewer. Biocatalysis and Agricultural Biotechnology, Volume 45,102502, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.bcab.2022.102502.
Rendina, F., Buonocore, E., Cocozza di Montanara, A., Russo, G. F. (2022). The scientific research on rhodolith beds: A review through bibliometric network analysis. Ecological Informatics, 101738.
Appolloni L., Ciorciaro D., Di Stefano F., Donnarumma L., Ferrigno F., Iacono C., Miccio A., Rendina F., Sandulli R., Russo G.F. (2022). Different métiers affect fish catches accounting in marine protected areas: a pilot investigation method. Journal of Environmental Accounting and Management, 10 (3): 237-252.
Martellato E., Piccirillo A.M.,Ferraioli G., Rotundi A., Della Corte V, Palumbo P., Alcaras E., Appolloni L., Aulicino G, Bertini I., Capozzi V., Catucci E., Dionnet Z., Di Palma P., Esposito F., Ferrentino E., Innac A., Inno L., Pennino S., Saviano S., Tirimberio G., Campopiano S., Chianese E., Franzese P.P., Fusco G., Gaglione S., Iadicicco A., Nunziata F., Parente C., Piscopo V., Riccio A., Russo G.F., Zambianchi E. (2022). A New Orbiting Deployable System for Small Satellite Observations for Ecology and Earth Observation. Remote Sensing, 14 (9), 2066.
Piazzi L., Ferrigno F., Guala I., Cinti M.F., Conforti A., De Falco G., De Luca M., Grech D., La Manna G., Pascucci V., Pansini A., Pinna F., Pireddu L., Puccini A., Russo G.F., Sandulli R., Santonastaso A., Simeone S., Stelletti M., Stipcich P., Ceccherelli G. (2022). Inconsistency in community structure and ecological quality between platform and cliff coralligenous assemblages. Ecological Indicators, 136, 108657.
Donnarumma L., D'Argenio A., Sandulli R., Russo G.F., Chemello R. (2021). Unmanned aerial vehicle technology to assess the state of threatened biogenic formations: The vermetid reefs of Mediterranean intertidal rocky coasts. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 107228.
Ferrigno, F., Appolloni, L., Donnarumma, L., Di Stefano F., Rendina F., Sandulli R., Russo G.F. (2021). Diversity loss in coralligenous structuring species impacted by fishing gear and marine litter. Diversity, 13 (7), 331.
Semprucci F., Appolloni L., Grassi E., Donnarumma L., Cesaroni L., Tirimberio G., Chianese E., Di Donato P., Russo G.F., Balsamo M., Sandulli R. (2021). Antarctic special protected area 161 as a reference to assess the effects of anthropogenic and natural impacts on meiobenthic assemblages. Diversity, 13 (12), 626
Perricone, V., Santulli, C., Rendina, F., & Langella, C. (2021). Organismal design and biomimetics: a problem of scale. Biomimetics, 6(4), 56.
Gravina, M. F., Casoli, E., Donnarumma, L., Giampaoletti, J., Antonelli, F., Perasso, C. S., & Ricci, S. (2021). First Report on the Benthic Invertebrate Community Associated With a Bronze Naval Ram From the First Punic War: A Proxy of Marine Biodiversity. Front. Mar. Sci, 8.
Ringvold, H., Taite, M., Allcock, A.L., Vecchione, M., Péan, M., Sandulli, R., Johnsen, G., Fjellheim, A., Bakke, S., Sannæs, H., 2021. In situ recordings of large gelatinous spheres from NE Atlantic , and the first genetic confirmation of egg mass of Illex coindetii ( Vérany , 1839 ). Sci. Rep. 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-86164-8
Appolloni, L., Zeppilli, D., Donnarumma, L., Baldrighi, E., Chianese, E., Russo, G.F., Sandulli, R., 2020. Seawater Acidification Affects Beta-Diversity of Benthic Communities at a Shallow Hydrothermal Vent in a Mediterranean Marine Protected Area (Underwater Archaeological Park of Baia, Naples, Italy). Diversity 12, 1–19. https://doi.org/10.3390/d12120464
Baldrighi, E., Zeppilli, D., Appolloni, L., Donnarumma, L., Chianese, E., Russo, G.F., Sandulli, R., 2020. Meiofaunal communities and nematode diversity characterizing the Secca delle Fumose shallow vent area (Gulf of Naples, Italy). PeerJ 8, 1–28. https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.9058
Buonocore, E., Russo, G.F., Franzese, P.P., 2020. Assessing natural capital value in the network of Italian marine protected areas: A comparative approach. Ecol. Quest. 31, 1–17. https://doi.org/10.12775/EQ.2020.029
Picone, F., Buonocore, E., Chemello, R., Russo, G.F., Franzese, P.P., 2020a. Exploring the development of scientific research on Marine Protected Areas: From conservation to global ocean sustainability. Ecol. Inform. 101200.
Picone, F., Buonocore, E., Claudet, J., Chemello, R., Russo, G.F., Franzese, P.P., 2020b. Marine protected areas overall success evaluation (MOSE): A novel integrated framework for assessing management performance and social-ecological benefits of MPAs. Ocean Coast. Manag. 198, 105370.
Renzi, M., Blašković, A., Broccoli, A., Bernardi, G., Grazioli, E., Russo, G., 2020. Chemical composition of microplastic in sediments and protected detritivores from different marine habitats (Salina Island). Mar. Pollut. Bull. 152, 110918.
Donnarumma, L., Sandulli, R., Appolloni, L., Ferrigno, F., Rendina, F., Di Stefano, F., Russo, G.F., 2020. Bathymetrical and temporal variations in soft-bottom molluscan assemblages in the coastal area facing the Sarno River mouth (Mediterranean Sea, Gulf of Naples). Ecol. Quest. 31, 1–20. https://doi.org/10.12775/EQ.2020.028
Rendina, F., Ferrigno, F., Appolloni, L., Donnarumma, L., Sandulli, R., Russo, G.F., 2020. Anthropic pressure due to lost fishing gears and marine litter on different rhodolith beds off the Campania Coast (Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy). Ecol. Quest. 31, 1–17. https://doi.org/http://dx.doi.org/10.12775/EQ.2020.027
Rendina, F., Kaleb, S., Caragnano, A., Ferrigno, F., Appolloni, L., Donnarumma, L., Russo, G.F., Sandulli, R., Roviello, V., Falace, A., 2020. Distribution and Characterization of Deep Rhodolith Beds off the Campania Coast (SW Italy, Mediterranean Sea). Plants 9, 1–17. https://doi.org/doi:10.3390/plants9080985
Ferrigno, F., Appolloni, L., Rendina, F., Donnarumma, L., Russo, G.F., 2020. Red coral (Corallium rubrum) populations and coralligenous characterization within “ Regno di Nettuno MPA ” (Tyrrhenian Sea , Italy ). Eur. Zool. J. 87, 203–213. https://doi.org/10.1080/24750263.2020.1742808
Appolloni, L., Buonocore, E., Russo, G.F., Franzese, P.P., 2020. The use of remote sensing for monitoring Posidonia oceanica and Marine Protected Areas : A systemic review. Ecol. Quest. 31, 1–15.
Buonocore, E., Donnarumma, L., Appolloni, L., Miccio, A., Russo, G.F., Franzese, P.P., 2020. Marine natural capital and ecosystem services: An environmental accounting model. Ecol. Modell. 424, 109029. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2020.109029
Buonocore E, Appolloni L, Russo GF, Franzese PP (2020). Assessing natural capital value in marine ecosystems through an environmental accounting model: A case study in Southern Italy. Ecol Model.; 419.
Appolloni L, Ferrigno F, Russo GF, Sandulli R. (2020). β-Diversity of morphological groups as indicator of coralligenous community quality status. Ecol Ind., 109.
Semprucci, F., Facca, C., Ferrigno, F., Balsamo, M., Sfriso, A., Sandulli, R. Biotic and abiotic factors affecting seasonal and spatial distribution of meiofauna and macrophytobenthos in transitional coastal waters (2019) Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 219, pp. 328-340.
Donnarumma L, Appolloni L, Chianese E, Bruno R, Baldrighi E, Guglielmo R, Russo GF, Zeppilli D, Sandulli R. (2019). Environmental and benthic community patterns of the shallow hydrothermal area of secca delle fumose (baia, naples, italy). Front Mar Sci, 6.
Rendina F, Bouchet PJ, Appolloni L, Russo GF, Sandulli R, Kolzenburg R, Putra A, Ragazzola F. (2019). Physiological response of the coralline alga corallina officinalis L. to both predicted long-term increases in temperature and short-term heatwave events. Mar Environ Res.,150.
Buonocore E, Paletto A, Russo GF, Franzese PP. (2019). Indicators of environmental performance to assess wood-based bioenergy production: A case study in northern italy. J Clean Prod., 221:242-8.
Casoli E, Bonifazi A, Ardizzone G, Gravina MF, Russo GF, Sandulli R, Donnarumma L. (2019). Comparative analysis of mollusc assemblages from different hard bottom habitats in the central tyrrhenian sea. Diversity, 11(5).
Buonocore E, Picone F, Donnarumma L, Russo GF, Franzese PP. (2019). Modeling matter and energy flows in marine ecosystems using emergy and eco-exergy methods to account for natural capital value. Ecol Model., 392:137-46.
Cattaneo-Vietti R, Russo GF. A brief history of the italian marine biology (2019). European Zool J., 86(1):294-315.
Renzi M, Blašković A, Bernardi G, Russo GF. (2018). Plastic litter transfer from sediments towards marine trophic webs: A case study on holothurians. Mar Pollut Bull., 135:376-85.
Semprucci, F., Frontalini, F., Losi, V., Armynot du Châtelet, E., Cesaroni, L., Sandulli, R., Coccioni, R., Balsamo, M. Biodiversity and distribution of the meiofaunal community in the reef slopes of the Maldivian archipelago (Indian Ocean) (2018) Marine Environmental Research, 139, pp. 19-26.
Collin, R., Rendina, F., Goodwin, V., & McCabe, S. (2018). Do tropical specialist sea urchins have higher thermal tolerances and optimal temperatures than their more widely distributed relatives?. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 589, 153-166.
Donnarumma L, Sandulli R, Appolloni L, Sánchez-Lizaso JL, Russo GF. (2018). Assessment of structural and functional diversity of mollusc assemblages within vermetid bioconstructions. Diversity, 10(3).
Ferrigno F, Russo GF, Semprucci F, Sandulli R. (2018). Unveiling the state of some underexplored deep coralligenous banks in the gulf of naples (mediterranean sea, italy). Reg Stud Mar Sci., 22:82-92.
Appolloni L, Sandulli R, Vetrano G, Russo GF. Assessing the effects of habitat patches ensuring propagule supply and different costs inclusion in marine spatial planning through multivariate analyses (2018). J Environ Manage., 214:45-55.
Semprucci, F., Balsamo, M., Appolloni, L., Sandulli, R. Assessment of ecological quality status along the Apulian coasts (eastern Mediterranean Sea) based on meiobenthic and nematode assemblages (2018) Marine Biodiversity, 48 (1), pp. 105-115.
Appolloni L, Sandulli R, Vetrano G, Russo GF. (2018). A new approach to assess marine opportunity costs and monetary values-in-use for spatial planning and conservation; the case study of gulf of Naples, Mediterranean Sea, Italy. Ocean Coast Manage, 152:135-44. Link here.
Appolloni L, Sandulli R, Bianchi CN, Russo GF. (2018). Spatial analyses of an integrated landscape-seascape territorial system: The case of the overcrowded gulf of Naples, Southern Italy. J Environ Account Manag., 6(4):365-80.
Zeppilli, D., Leduc, D., Fontanier, C., Fontaneto, D., Fuchs, S., Gooday, A.J., Goineau, A., Ingels, J., Ivanenko, V.N., Kristensen, R.M., Neves, R.C., Sanchez, N., Sandulli, R., Sarrazin, J., Sørensen, M.V., Tasiemski, A., Vanreusel, A., Autret, M., Bourdonnay, L., Claireaux, M., Coquillé, V., De Wever, Characteristics of meiofauna in extreme marine ecosystems: a review (2018) Marine Biodiversity, 48 (1), pp. 35-71.
Buonocore E, Picone F, Russo GF, Franzese PP. (2018). The scientific research on natural capital: A bibliometric network analysis. J Environ Account Manag., 6(4):381-91.
Donnarumma L, Sandulli R, Appolloni L, Russo GF. (2018). Assessing molluscs functional diversity within different coastal habitats of Mediterranean marine protected areas. Ecol Quest., 29(3):35-51.
Donnarumma L, Bruno R, Terlizzi A, Russo GF. (2018). Population ecology of Jujubinus striatus and Jujubinus exasperatus (gastropoda: Trochidae) in a Posidonia oceanica seagrass bed. European Zool J;85(1):17-25.
Baldrighi, E., Vanreusel, A., Zeppilli, D., Sandulli, R., Segonzac, M. Occurrence of Chromadorita regabi sp. nov. (Nematoda: Adenophorea), a nematode egg predator of Alvinocaris muricola (Crustacea: Decapoda: Caridea: Alvinocarididae) from a deep cold seep area of the Gulf of Guinea (2018) European Zoological Journal, 85 (1), pp. 300-312.
Ferrigno F, Appolloni L, Russo GF, Sandulli R. (2018). Impact of fishing activities on different coralligenous assemblages of gulf of Naples (italy). J Mar Biol Assoc U K, 98(1):41-50.
Donnarumma L, Sandulli R, Appolloni L, Di Stefano F, Russo GF. (2018). Morpho-structural and ecological features of a shallow vermetid bioconstruction in the Tyrrhenian sea (Mediterranean Sea, Italy). J Sea Res.,131:61-8.
Noli, N., Sbrocca, C., Sandulli, R., Balsamo, M., Semprucci, F. Contribution to the knowledge of meiobenthic copepoda (Crustacea) from the Sardinian coast, Italy (2018) Arxius de Miscellania Zoologica, 16, pp. 121-133.
Ingrosso G, Abbiati M, Badalamenti F, Bavestrello G, Belmonte G, Cannas R, Benedetti-Cecchi L, Bertolino M, Bevilacqua S, Bianchi CN, Bo M, Boscari E, Cardone F, Cattaneo-Vietti R, Cau A, Cerrano C, Chemello R, Chimienti G, Congiu L, Corriero G, Costantini F, De Leo F, Donnarumma L, Falace A, Fraschetti S, Giangrande A, Gravina MF, Guarnieri G, Mastrototaro F, Milazzo M, Morri C, Musco L, Pezzolesi L, Piraino S, Prada F, Ponti M, Rindi F, Russo GF, Sandulli R, Villamor A, Zane L, Boero F. (2018). Mediterranean bioconstructions along the italian coast. Adv Marine Biol., 79:61-136.
Ferrigno F, Russo GF, Sandulli R. Coralligenous bioconstructions quality index (CBQI): A synthetic indicator to assess the status of different types of coralligenous habitats (2017). Ecol Indic., 82:271-9.
Franzese PP, Buonocore E, Donnarumma L, Russo GF. (2017). Natural capital accounting in marine protected areas: The case of the islands of ventotene and S. stefano (central italy). Ecol Model., 360:290-9.
Appolloni L, Bevilacqua S, Sbrescia L, Sandulli R, Terlizzi A, Russo GF. (2017). Does full protection count for the maintenance of β-diversity patterns in marine communities? evidence from mediterranean fish assemblages. Aquatic Conserv Mar Freshw Ecosyst., 27(4):828-38.
Vassallo P, Paoli C, Buonocore E, Franzese PP, Russo GF, Povero P. (2017). Assessing the value of natural capital in marine protected areas: A biophysical and trophodynamic environmental accounting model. Ecol Model., 355:12-7.
Giordano G, Carbone M, Ciavatta ML, Silvano E, Gavagnin M, Garson MJ, Cheney KL, Mudianta IW, Russo GF, Villani G, Magliozzi L, Polese G, Zidorn C, Cutignano A, Fontana A, Ghiselin MT, Mollo E. (2017). Volatile secondary metabolites as aposematic olfactory signals and defensive weapons in aquatic environments. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A, 114(13):3451-6.
Fastelli P, Blašković A, Bernardi G, Romeo T, Čižmek H, Andaloro F, Russo GF, Guerranti C, Renzi M. (2016). Plastic litter in sediments from a marine area likely to become protected (aeolian archipelago's islands, tyrrhenian sea). Mar Pollut Bull., 113(1-2):526-9.
Nihongi, A., Ziarek, J.J., Uttieri, M., Sandulli, R., Zambianchi, E., Strickler, J.R. Behavioural interseasonal adaptations in Daphnia pulicaria (Crustacea: Cladocera) as induced by predation infochemicals (2016) Aquatic Ecology, 50 (4), pp. 667-684.
Ferrigno F, Bianchi CN, Lasagna R, Morri C, Russo GF, Sandulli R. (2016). Corals in high diversity reefs resist human impact. Ecol Indic., 70:106-13.
Semprucci, F., Balsamo, M., Sandulli, R. Assessment of the ecological quality (EcoQ) of the Venice lagoon using the structure and biodiversity of the meiofaunal assemblages (2016) Ecological Indicators, 67, pp. 451-457. Cited 22 times.
Cattaneo-Vietti R, Bo M, Cannas R, Cau A, Follesa C, Meliadò E, Russo GF, Sandulli R, Santangelo G, Bavestrello G. (2016). An overexploited italian treasure: Past and present distribution and exploitation of the precious red coral corallium rubrum (L., 1758) (cnidaria: Anthozoa). Ital J Zool., 83(4):443-55.
Donnarumma L, Bruno R, Terlizzi A, Russo GF. (2016). Population ecology of gibbula umbilicaris and gibbula ardens (gastropoda: Trochidae) in a posidonia oceanica seagrass bed. Ital J Zool., 83(1):103-12.
Mariani M, Miragliuolo A, Mussi B, Russo GF, Ardizzone G, Pace DS. (2016). Analysis of the natural markings of risso's dolphins (grampus griseus) in the central mediterranean sea. J Mammal., 97(6):1512-24.
Franzese PP, Buonocore E, Paoli C, Massa F, Stefano D, Fanciulli G, Miccio A, Mollica E, Navone A, Russo GF, Povero P, Vassallo P. (2015). Environmental accounting in marine protected areas: The EAMPA project. J Environ Account Manag. 3(4): 323-31.
Battaglia, P., Canese, S., Ammendolia, G., Romeo, T., Sandulli, R., Tunesi, L., Andaloro, F. New records and underwater observation of the rare fish Scorpaenodes arenai (Osteichthyes: Scorpaenidae) from the central and western Mediterranean Sea (2015) Italian Journal of Zoology, 82 (3), pp. 454-458.
Sandulli, R., Miljutin, D., Angeletti, L., Taviani, M. Meiobenthos and nematode assemblages from different deep-sea habitats of the Strait of Sicily (Central Mediterranean Sea) (2015) Mediterranean Marine Science, 16 (2), pp. 402-412.