Spatial distribution and habitat characterization of marine animal forest assemblages along nine submarine canyons of Eastern Sardinia (central Mediterranean Sea)

Benthic Crustacean Digestion Can Modulate the Environmental Fate of Microplastics in the Deep Sea

(2020) Alessandro Cau et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & TECHNOLOGY

A mesophotic black coral forest in the Adriatic Sea

(2020) Giovanni Chimienti et al.   Scientific Reports

Vulnerable Forests of the Pink Sea Fan Eunicella verrucosa in the Mediterranean Sea

(2020) Giovanni Chimienti   Diversity-Basel

Patterns and drivers of meiofaunal assemblages in the canyons Polcevera and Bisagno of the Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean Sea)

(2019) L. Carugati et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Towards Non-Invasive Methods to Assess Population Structure and Biomass in Vulnerable Sea Pen Fields

(2019) Chimienti et al.   SENSORS

Changes of energy fluxes in marine animal forests of the Anthropocene: factors shaping the future seascape

(2019) Sergio Rossi et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Ecological characterisation of a Mediterranean cold-water coral reef: Cabliers Coral Mound Province (Alboran Sea, western Mediterranean)

(2019) Guillem Corbera et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Recent advances in understanding the ecology and functioning of submarine canyons in the Mediterranean Sea

(2019) Miquel Canals et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Megabenthic communities of the Ligurian deep continental shelf and shelf break (NW Mediterranean Sea)

(2019) Francesco Enrichetti et al.   PLoS One

Evaluating the ecological status of cold-water coral habitats using non-invasive methods: An example from Cassidaigne canyon, northwestern Mediterranean Sea

(2019) Marie-Claire Fabri et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Coral forests and Derelict Fishing Gears in submarine canyon systems of the Ligurian Sea

(2019) M. Giusti et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Megabenthic assemblages in the continental shelf edge and upper slope of the Menorca Channel, Western Mediterranean Sea

(2018) Jordi Grinyó et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Food quantity and quality in Barkley Canyon (NE Pacific) and its influence on macroinfaunal community structure

(2018) Neus Campanyà-Llovet et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Dumping to the abyss: single-use marine litter invading bathyal plains of the Sardinian margin (Tyrrhenian Sea)

(2018) Alessandro Cau et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Marine animal forests as useful indicators of entanglement by marine litter

(2018) Francois Galgani et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Deep-sea mobile megafauna of Mediterranean submarine canyons and open slopes: Analysis of spatial and bathymetric gradients

(2018) Emanuela Fanelli et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

New sites expanding the “Sardinian cold-water coral province” extension: A new potential cold-water coral network?

(2018) Davide Moccia et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Megafauna distribution along active submarine canyons of the central Mediterranean: Relationships with environmental variables

(2018) M. Pierdomenico et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Submarine canyons along the upper Sardinian slope (Central Western Mediterranean) as repositories for derelict fishing gears

(2017) Alessandro Cau et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Leiopathes glaberrima millennial forest from SW Sardinia as nursery ground for the small spotted catshark Scyliorhinus canicula

(2016) Alessandro Cau et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Habitat constraints and self-thinning shape Mediterranean red coral deep population structure: implications for conservation practice

(2016) Alessandro Cau et al.   Scientific Reports

Cold-Water Corals and Anthropogenic Impacts in La Fonera Submarine Canyon Head, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea

(2016) Galderic Lastras et al.   PLoS One

Do colonies ofLytocarpia myriophyllum, L. 1758 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) affect the biochemical composition and the meiofaunal diversity of surrounding sediments?

(2015) Carlo Cerrano et al.   CHEMISTRY AND ECOLOGY

The impacts of deep-sea fisheries on benthic communities: a review

(2015) Malcolm R. Clark et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

The influence of flow velocity and temperature on zooplankton capture rates by the cold-water coral Dendrophyllia cornigera

(2015) Andrea Gori et al.   JOURNAL OF EXPERIMENTAL MARINE BIOLOGY AND ECOLOGY

Structure and biodiversity of coralligenous assemblages over broad spatial and temporal scales

(2015) Edgar Casas-Güell et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Deepwater corals biodiversity along roche du large ecosystems with different habitat complexity along the south Sardinia continental margin (CW Mediterranean Sea)

(2015) Alessandro Cau et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Macro- and megafauna recorded in the submarine Bari Canyon (southern Adriatic, Mediterranean Sea) using different tools

(2015) G. D'ONGHIA et al.   MEDITERRANEAN MARINE SCIENCE

Marine Litter Distribution and Density in European Seas, from the Shelves to Deep Basins

(2014) Christopher K. Pham et al.   PLoS One

Cold-water corals in a changing ocean

(2014) J Murray Roberts et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

Contemporary Sediment-Transport Processes in Submarine Canyons

(2013) Pere Puig et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Cold-water coral reef habitats benefit recreationally valuable sharks

(2013) Lea-Anne Henry et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Debris in the deep: Using a 22-year video annotation database to survey marine litter in Monterey Canyon, central California, USA

(2013) Kyra Schlining et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

A comparison of megafaunal communities in five submarine canyons off Southern California, USA

(2013) Grant A. Duffy et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Spatial scale-dependent habitat heterogeneity influences submarine canyon macrofaunal abundance and diversity off the Main and Northwest Hawaiian Islands

(2013) Fabio C. De Leo et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Megafauna of vulnerable marine ecosystems in French mediterranean submarine canyons: Spatial distribution and anthropogenic impacts

(2013) M-C. Fabri et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Microplastic pollution in deep-sea sediments

(2013) Lisbeth Van Cauwenberghe et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION

Tolerance to long-term exposure of suspended benthic sediments and drill cuttings in the cold-water coral Lophelia pertusa

(2013) Ann I. Larsson et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

The destruction of the ‘animal forests’ in the oceans: Towards an over-simplification of the benthic ecosystems

(2013) Sergio Rossi   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Deep cold-water corals as nurseries for fish larvae

(2012) Sandrine Baillon et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Cold-water corals landed by bottom longline fisheries in the Azores (north-eastern Atlantic)

(2012) Í. Sampaio et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Trophic impact of long-lived species indicated by population dynamics in the short-lived hydrozoan Eudendrium racemosum

(2012) S Rossi et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Ploughing the deep sea floor

(2012) Pere Puig et al.   NATURE

Comparing Deep-Sea Fish Fauna between Coral and Non-Coral “Megahabitats” in the Santa Maria di Leuca Cold-Water Coral Province (Mediterranean Sea)

(2012) Gianfranco D'Onghia et al.   PLoS One

Global distribution of large submarine canyons: Geomorphic differences between active and passive continental margins

(2011) Peter T. Harris et al.   MARINE GEOLOGY

Habitat heterogeneity, disturbance, and productivity work in concert to regulate biodiversity in deep submarine canyons

(2010) Craig R. McClain et al.   ECOLOGY

Spatial distribution patterns of the gorgonians Eunicella singularis, Paramuricea clavata, and Leptogorgia sarmentosa (Cape of Creus, Northwestern Mediterranean Sea)

(2010) Andrea Gori et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Biological structures as a source of habitat heterogeneity and biodiversity on the deep ocean margins

(2010) Lene Buhl-Mortensen et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

The roles of habitat heterogeneity in generating and maintaining biodiversity on continental margins: an introduction

(2010) Lisa A. Levin et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Deep-Sea Biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea: The Known, the Unknown, and the Unknowable

(2010) Roberto Danovaro et al.   PLoS One

Submarine canyons: hotspots of benthic biomass and productivity in the deep sea

(2010) F. C. De Leo et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Organic matter in sediments of canyons and open slopes of the Portuguese, Catalan, Southern Adriatic and Cretan Sea margins

(2009) Antonio Pusceddu et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Effects of deep-water coral banks on the abundance and size structure of the megafauna in the Mediterranean Sea

(2009) G. D’Onghia et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

High-resolution seabed imagery as a tool for biodiversity conservation planning on continental margins

(2009) Thomas A. Schlacher et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Cold-water corals in the Cap de Creus canyon, northwestern Mediterranean: spatial distribution, density and anthropogenic impact

(2009) C Orejas et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES