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Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

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Ecology and Evolution
Italy
2023

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
63
Citations
13013
World Ranking
1984
National Ranking
20

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Ecology and Evolution in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi is affiliated with the University of Pisa in Italy and focuses their research predominantly within the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences. Their work spans several subfields including Oceanography, Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Ecological Modeling, and Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics.

Their main topics of study include marine and coastal plant biology, marine biology and ecology research, coral and marine ecosystems studies, marine and fisheries research, marine and coastal ecosystems, species distribution and climate change, and ecosystem dynamics and resilience.

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Benedetti-Cecchi encompass:

  • Luca Rindi
  • Fabio Bulleri
  • Iacopo Bertocci
  • Caterina Mintrone
  • Elena Maggi

Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi has published extensively in various scientific venues. The most frequent publication venues are:

  • Nature Communications
  • Biological Conservation
  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Marine Environmental Research
  • Scientific Reports

Recent papers by Benedetti-Cecchi and colleagues include:

  • Global COVID-19 lockdown highlights humans as both threats and custodians of the environment (2021) published in Biological Conservation
  • Modeling Macroalgal Forest Distribution at Mediterranean Scale: Present Status, Drivers of Changes and Insights for Conservation and Management (2020) published in Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Mediterranean rocky reefs in the Anthropocene: Present status and future concerns (2021) published in Advances in Marine Biology
  • Climate drives the geography of marine consumption by changing predator communities (2020) published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • Rocky shores as tractable test systems for experimental ecology (2020) published in Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Best Publications

  • Marine reserves: size and age do matter

    Joachim Claudet;Craig W. Osenberg;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Paolo Domenici

  • Predicting the consequences of anthropogenic disturbance: large-scale effects of loss of canopy algae on rocky shores

    L. Benedetti-Cecchi;F. Pannacciulli;F. Bulleri;P. S. Moschella

  • BioTIME: A database of biodiversity time series for the Anthropocene

    Maria Dornelas;Laura H. Antão;Laura H. Antão;Faye Moyes;Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates

  • Essential ocean variables for global sustained observations of biodiversity and ecosystem changes

    Patricia Miloslavich;Nicholas J. Bax;Nicholas J. Bax;Samantha E. Simmons;Eduardo Klein

  • Marine reserves: fish life history and ecological traits matter.

    J Claudet;J Claudet;C W Osenberg;P Domenici;F Badalamenti

  • Patterns of distribution of marine assemblages from rocky shores: evidence of relevant scales of variation

    Simonetta Fraschetti;Antonio Terlizzi;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

  • A continental scale evaluation of the role of limpet grazing on rocky shores

    Ross A. Coleman;Ross A. Coleman;Ross A. Coleman;Antony J. Underwood;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Per Åberg

  • Effectiveness of European Atlanto-Mediterranean MPAs: Do they accomplish the expected effects on populations, communities and ecosystems?

    Jose Antonio Garcia-Charton;Angel Perez Perez-Ruzafa;Concepcion Marcos;Joachim Claudet

  • The importance of the variance around the mean effect size of ecological processes

    Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

  • The influence of canopy algae on vertical patterns of distribution of low-shore assemblages on rocky coasts in the northwest Mediterranean

    Fabio Bulleri;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Stefano Acunto;Francesco Cinelli

  • Grazing by the sea urchins Arbacia lixula L. and Paracentrotus lividus Lam. in the Northwest Mediterranean

    Fabio Bulleri;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Francesco Cinelli

  • CASCADING HUMAN IMPACTS, MARINE PROTECTED AREAS, AND THE STRUCTURE OF MEDITERRANEAN REEF ASSEMBLAGES

    Fiorenza Micheli;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Silvia Gambaccini;Iacopo Bertocci

  • Toward a Coordinated Global Observing System for Seagrasses and Marine Macroalgae

    J. Emmett Duffy;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Joaquin Trinanes;Joaquin Trinanes;Joaquin Trinanes;Frank E. Muller-Karger

  • Mediterranean Bioconstructions Along the Italian Coast

    Gianmarco Ingrosso;Marco Abbiati;Fabio Badalamenti;Giorgio Bavestrello

  • Multivariate and univariate asymmetrical analyses in environmental impact assessment: a case study of Mediterranean subtidal sessile assemblages

    Antonio Terlizzi;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Stanislao Bevilacqua;Simonetta Fraschetti

  • Climate resilience in marine protected areas and the 'Protection Paradox'

    Amanda E. Bates;Amanda E. Bates;Robert S.C. Cooke;Murray I. Duncan;Murray I. Duncan;Murray I. Duncan;Graham J. Edgar

  • Beyond competition: incorporating positive interactions between species to predict ecosystem invasibility.

    Fabio Bulleri;John F Bruno;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

  • Spatial and temporal variability in the distribution of algae and invertebrates on rocky shores in the northwest Mediterranean

    Massimo Menconi;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Francesco Cinelli

  • TEMPORAL VARIANCE REVERSES THE IMPACT OF HIGH MEAN INTENSITY OF STRESS IN CLIMATE CHANGE EXPERIMENTS

    Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Iacopo Bertocci;Stefano Vaselli;Elena Maggi

  • Hard coastal-defence structures as habitats for native and exotic rocky-bottom species

    Stefano Vaselli;Fabio Bulleri;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

  • The seaweed Caulerpa racemosa on Mediterranean rocky reefs: from passenger to driver of ecological change

    Fabio Bulleri;David Balata;Iacopo Bertocci;Iacopo Bertocci;Laura Tamburello

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabio Bulleri
Fabio Bulleri University of Pisa
Iacopo Bertocci
Iacopo Bertocci University of Pisa
Francesco Cinelli
Francesco Cinelli University of Pisa
Simonetta Fraschetti
Simonetta Fraschetti University of Naples Federico II
Patricia Miloslavich
Patricia Miloslavich University of Tasmania
Tasman P. Crowe
Tasman P. Crowe University College Dublin
Jonne Kotta
Jonne Kotta University of Tartu
Fabio Badalamenti
Fabio Badalamenti National Research Council (CNR)
Gil Rilov
Gil Rilov Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research
Joachim Claudet
Joachim Claudet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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