Ferdinando Boero

TL;DR: Data strongly suggest that the Portofino hydroid assemblage reacted to the water temperature increase found in the Mediterranean Sea, and shallow summer species widened their bathymetric distribution, reaching deeper levels.

TL;DR: Estimation of predation frequency by the commercially valuable Mediterranean bogue, Boops boops, on the mauve stinger jellyfish, Pelagia noctiluca, in the Strait of Messina shows that female jellyfish gonads had significantly higher energy content than male gonads due to more lipids and that gonad had six-fold higherEnergy content than the somatic tissues due to higher lipid and protein concentrations.

TL;DR: Protection may significantly affect predatory fishes in artificial rocky habitats, and protected artificial structures such as breakwaters, originally planned for other purposes, could represent a potential tool for fish population recovery and enhancement of local fisheries.

TL;DR: The goals of the paper were to map the distribution of benthic assemblages to assess if they were properly represented in the differently protected zones, and to test the efficacy of protection by quantifying possible differences between the assemblage in two control areas and in the two A zones, where human impact is completely excluded.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated whether fish assemblage structure, and temporal trends in species richness and abundance of fishes were affected by sewage pollution, and found that planktivorous and detritivorous fishes were more abundant at the impacted location and contributed most to dissimilarities in assemblages between the outfall and controls.