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Ferdinando Boero
Researcher at University of Salento
Publications - 249
Citations - 9311
Ferdinando Boero is an academic researcher from University of Salento. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mediterranean sea & Hydrozoa. The author has an hindex of 54, co-authored 237 publications receiving 8474 citations. Previous affiliations of Ferdinando Boero include European Atomic Energy Community & Central Maine Community College.
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Gelatinous plankton: irregularities rule the world (sometimes)
Ferdinando Boero,Jean Bouillon,Cinzia Gravili,Maria Pia Miglietta,T. Parsons,Stefano Piraino +5 more
TL;DR: How life cycle patterns are central in marine ecology, as are the pulses of gelatinous organisms, are described, and how such a dramatic lack of knowledge can affect the authors' understanding of the marine ecosystem as a whole is highlighted.
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Italian marine reserve effectiveness: Does enforcement matter?
Paolo Guidetti,Marco Milazzo,Simona Bussotti,Andrea Molinari,Matteo Murenu,Antonio Pais,Nunziacarla Spanò,Raffaella Balzano,Tundi Agardy,Ferdinando Boero,Giancarlo Carrada,Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti,Angelo Cau,Renato Chemello,Silvestro Greco,A. Manganaro,Giuseppe Notarbartolo di Sciara,Giovanni Fulvio Russo,Leonardo Tunesi +18 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) and found that 3 of 15 Italian marine reserves investigated had adequate enforcement, and that patterns of recovery of target fish were related to enforcement.
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Fauna of the Mediterranean Hydrozoa
Jean Bouillon,María Dolores Medel,Francesc Pagès,Josep Maria Gili,Ferdinando Boero,Cinzia Gravili +5 more
TL;DR: This work is the most complete fauna of hydrozoans made in the Mediterranean, which includes planktonic hydromedusae, benthic polyps stages and the siphonophores.
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‘Double trouble’: the expansion of the Suez Canal and marine bioinvasions in the Mediterranean Sea
Bella S. Galil,Ferdinando Boero,Marnie L. Campbell,James T. Carlton,Elizabeth Cook,Simonetta Fraschetti,Stephan Gollasch,Chad L. Hewitt,Anders Jelmert,Enrique Macpherson,Agnese Marchini,Cynthia H. McKenzie,Dan Minchin,Anna Occhipinti-Ambrogi,Henn Ojaveer,Sergej Olenin,Stefano Piraino,Gregory M. Ruiz +17 more
TL;DR: Expected to double the capacity of the Suez Canal, the expansion is sure to have a diverse range of effects, at local and regional scales, on both the biological diversity and the ecosystem goods and services of the Mediterranean Sea.