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Franco Andaloro is affiliated with the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Italy. Their research primarily centers around Environmental Science, with a particular focus on subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Oceanography, Pollution, and Nature and Landscape Conservation.

The scientist's work covers various key topics related to marine environments. These include Marine and Fisheries Research, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine Biology and Ecology Research, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry.

Franco Andaloro has contributed to multiple academic publications. Some notable recent papers include:

  • A new digestion approach for the extraction of microplastics from gastrointestinal tracts (GITs) of the common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) from the western Mediterranean Sea, 2020, Journal of Hazardous Materials
  • The impact of marine litter from fish aggregation devices on vulnerable marine benthic habitats of the central Mediterranean Sea, 2020, Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • Common patterns of functional and biotic indices in response to multiple stressors in marine harbours ecosystems, 2020, Environmental Pollution
  • Coupling Gastro-Intestinal Tract Analysis With an Airborne Contamination Control Method to Estimate Litter Ingestion in Demersal Elasmobranchs, 2020, Frontiers in Environmental Science
  • The lesser amberjack Seriola fasciata (Perciformes: Carangidae) in the Mediterranean: a recent colonist?, 2021, Société Française d'Ichtyologie

Their most frequent co-authors include:

  • Teresa Romeo (34 co-authored works)
  • Pietro Battaglia (19 co-authored works)
  • Pierpaolo Consoli (18 co-authored works)
  • Valentina Esposito (12 co-authored works)
  • Silvestro Greco (12 co-authored works)

Franco Andaloro's research has been published frequently in the following venues:

  • Société Française d'Ichtyologie (7 publications)
  • Microorganisms (3 publications)
  • The European Zoological Journal (3 publications)
  • Journal of Hazardous Materials (2 publications)
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin (2 publications)

Best Publications

  • First evidence of presence of plastic debris in stomach of large pelagic fish in the Mediterranean Sea

    Teresa Romeo;Battaglia Pietro;Cristina Pedà;Pierpaolo Consoli

  • Intestinal alterations in European sea bass Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758) exposed to microplastics: Preliminary results

    Cristina Pedà;Letteria Caccamo;Maria Cristina Fossi;Francesco Gai

  • Annotated list of marine alien species in the Mediterranean with records of the worst invasive species

    A. Zenetos;M.E. Cinar;M.A. Pancucci-Papadopoulou;J.G. Harmelin

  • Bioindicators for monitoring marine litter ingestion and its impacts on Mediterranean biodiversity.

    Maria Cristina Fossi;Cristina Pedà;Montserrat Compa;Catherine Tsangaris

  • Relationships between otolith size and fish size in some mesopelagic and bathypelagic species from the Mediterranean Sea (Strait of Messina, Italy)

    Pietro Battaglia;Danilo Malara;Teresa Romeo;Franco Andaloro

  • Genetic bottlenecks and successful biological invasions: the case of a recent Lessepsian migrant.

    Daniel Golani;Ernesto Azzurro;Maria Corsini-Foka;Manuela Falautano

  • Characterization of the artisanal fishery and its socio-economic aspects in the central Mediterranean Sea (Aeolian Islands, Italy)

    Pietro Battaglia;Teresa Romeo;Pierpaolo Consoli;Gianfranco Scotti

  • Feeding habits of the Atlantic bluefin tuna, Thunnus thynnus (L. 1758), in the central Mediterranean Sea (Strait of Messina)

    Pietro Battaglia;Franco Andaloro;Pierpaolo Consoli;Valentina Esposito

  • A new digestion approach for the extraction of microplastics from gastrointestinal tracts (GITs) of the common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) from the western Mediterranean Sea.

    Gabriella F. Schirinzi;Cristina Pedà;Pietro Battaglia;Federica Laface

  • Marine alien species in Italy: A contribution to the implementation of descriptor D2 of the marine strategy framework directive

    Gianna Servello;Franco Andaloro;Ernesto Azzurro;Luca Castriota

  • Evaluating day-night changes in shallow Mediterranean rocky reef fish assemblages by visual census

    Ernesto Azzurro;Antonio Pais;Pierpaolo Consoli;Franco Andaloro

  • Marine litter from fishery activities in the Western Mediterranean sea: The impact of entanglement on marine animal forests.

    Pierpaolo Consoli;Teresa Romeo;Michela Angiolillo;Simonepietro Canese

  • Marine litter in an EBSA (Ecologically or Biologically Significant Area) of the central Mediterranean Sea: Abundance, composition, impact on benthic species and basis for monitoring entanglement.

    Pierpaolo Consoli;Franco Andaloro;Chiara Altobelli;Pietro Battaglia

  • Plastic litter in sediments from a marine area likely to become protected (Aeolian Archipelago's islands, Tyrrhenian sea)

    Paolo Fastelli;Andrea Blašković;Giulia Bernardi;Teresa Romeo

  • Aspects of reproductive biology of the Mediterranean amberjack (Seriola dumerilii Risso) during the spawning period

    G. Marino;A. Mandich;A. Massari;F. Andaloro

  • Resource partitioning among early colonizing Siganus luridus and native herbivorous fish in the Mediterranean: an integrated study based on gut-content analysis and stable isotope signatures

    Ernesto Azzurro;Emanuela Fanelli;Edoardo Mostarda;Marcello Catra

  • A new settled population of the lessepsian migrant Siganus luridus (Pisces: Siganidae) in Linosa Island—Sicily Strait

    Ernesto Azzurro;Franco Andaloro

  • Diet and first documented data on plastic ingestion of Trachinotus ovatus L. 1758 (Pisces: Carangidae) from the Strait of Messina (central Mediterranean Sea)

    P. Battaglia;C. Pedà;S. Musolino;V. Esposito

  • Feeding habits of the albacore tuna Thunnus alalunga (Perciformes, Scombridae) from central Mediterranean Sea

    P. Consoli;T. Romeo;P. Battaglia;L. Castriota

  • Composition and abundance of benthic marine litter in a coastal area of the central Mediterranean Sea.

    Pierpaolo Consoli;Manuela Falautano;Mauro Sinopoli;Patrizia Perzia

  • Food and feeding habits of the amberjack, Seriola dumerili in the Central Mediterranean Sea during the spawning season.

    F. Andaloro;C. Pipitone

  • FIRST RECORD OF FISTULARIA COMMERSONII (FISTULARIDAE) FROM THE CENTRAL MEDITERRANEAN

    Ernesto Azzurro;Paola Pizzicori;Franco Andaloro

Frequent Co-Authors

Teresa Romeo
Teresa Romeo Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Simonepietro Canese
Simonepietro Canese Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Ernesto Azzurro
Ernesto Azzurro Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche - CNR
Maria Cristina Fossi
Maria Cristina Fossi University of Siena
Gianluca Sarà
Gianluca Sarà University of Palermo
Marzia Bo
Marzia Bo University of Genoa
Fabio Badalamenti
Fabio Badalamenti National Research Council (CNR)
François Galgani
François Galgani French Research Institute for Exploitation of the Sea
Francesco Italiano
Francesco Italiano National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Silvano Focardi
Silvano Focardi University of Siena

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