Marco Bertolino

TL;DR: The study of bioconstructions requires a holistic approach leading to a better understanding of their ecology and the application of more insightful management and conservation measures at basin scale, within ecologically coherent units based on connectivity: the cells of ecosystem functioning.

TL;DR: This study highlights the potential role of an isolated rocky peak penetrating the euphotic zone of a Tyrrhenian seamount to work as an aggregating structure, hosting abundant benthic communities dominated by suspension feeders, whose distribution may vary in accordance to the geomorphology of the area and the different local hydrodynamic conditions.

TL;DR: MV-L was supported by a postdoctoral contract Juan de la Cierva-Incorporacion (IJCI-2016-29329) of Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovacion y Universidades.

TL;DR: It is revealed that Mediterranean marinas indeed act as major hubs for the transfer of marine NIS, and there is evidence that recreational boats act as effective vectors of spread.

TL;DR: The recorded coral β-diversity among the shoals supports the hypothesis that these habitats behave like small oases of hard substrata interspersed in a muddy bottom, and stresses the need of specific actions aimed at the urgent protection of these oasis of biodiversity.