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Overview

Marco Milazzo is affiliated with the University of Palermo in Italy. Their research predominantly spans the fields of Environmental Science and Earth and Planetary Sciences, contributing substantially to subfields such as Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and Molecular Biology.

Their work focuses on diverse topics within marine and environmental sciences including:

  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
  • Ichthyology and Marine Biology
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research

Marco Milazzo has published research in several frequent venues, notably:

  • Marine Environmental Research
  • The Journal of Sexual Medicine
  • Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
  • Nature Communications
  • The Science of The Total Environment

Recent papers associated with Milazzo's work include:

  • Environmental DNA effectively captures functional diversity of coastal fish communities (2020, Molecular Ecology)
  • Improving marine protected area governance through collaboration and co-production (2020, Journal of Environmental Management)
  • Social equity and marine protected areas: Perceptions of small-scale fishermen in the Mediterranean Sea (2020, Biological Conservation)
  • Volcanic CO2 seep geochemistry and use in understanding ocean acidification (2020, Biogeochemistry)
  • Mediterranean rocky reefs in the Anthropocene: Present status and future concerns (2021, Advances in Marine Biology)

Collaboration is a significant aspect of Marco Milazzo's research. Frequent coauthors include:

  • Carlo Cattano
  • Gabriele Turco
  • Davide Spatafora
  • Antonio Franco
  • Paolo Guidetti

Through these collaborations and diverse research topics, the scientist contributes to a broad understanding of marine ecosystems, their conservation, and the environmental challenges affecting these areas, especially within the Mediterranean context.

Best Publications

  • Marine reserves: size and age do matter

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

  • Trophic cascades in benthic marine ecosystems: Lessons for fisheries and protected-area management

    J.K. Pinnegar;N.V.C. Polunin;P. Francour;F. Badalamenti

  • Italian marine reserve effectiveness: Does enforcement matter?

    Paolo Guidetti;Marco Milazzo;Simona Bussotti;Andrea Molinari

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

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

  • Ocean acidification through the lens of ecological theory

    Brian Gaylord;Kristy J Kroeker;Jennifer M Sunday;Kathryn M Anderson

  • Effect of algal architecture on associated fauna: some evidence from phytal molluscs

    R. Chemello;M. Milazzo

  • Five key attributes can increase marine protected areas performance for small-scale fisheries management.

    Antonio Di Franco;Pierre Thiriet;Giuseppe Di Carlo;Charalampos Dimitriadis

  • Ocean acidification can mediate biodiversity shifts by changing biogenic habitat

    Jennifer M. Sunday;Katharina E. Fabricius;Kristy J. Kroeker;Kathryn M. Anderson

  • Local support for conservation is associated with perceptions of good governance, social impacts, and ecological effectiveness

    Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Antonio Di Franco;Antonio Calò;Elizabeth Nethery

  • Boat anchoring on Posidonia oceanica beds in a marine protected area (Italy, western Mediterranean): effect of anchor types in different anchoring stages

    Marco Milazzo;Fabio Badalamenti;Giulia Ceccherelli;Renato Chemello

  • 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

  • Ocean acidification and the loss of phenolic substances in marine plants.

    Thomas Arnold;Thomas Arnold;Christopher Mealey;Hannah Leahey;A. Whitman Miller

  • The Impact of Human Recreational Activities in Marine Protected Areas: What Lessons Should Be Learnt in the Mediterranean Sea?

    Marco Milazzo;Renato Chemello;Fabio Badalamenti;Raffaele Camarda

  • Living in a high CO2 world: a global meta-analysis shows multiple trait-mediated fish responses to ocean acidification

    Carlo Cattano;Joachim Claudet;Paolo Domenici;Marco Milazzo

  • Mediterranean Bioconstructions Along the Italian Coast

    Gianmarco Ingrosso;Marco Abbiati;Fabio Badalamenti;Giorgio Bavestrello

  • Evaluating the ecological effects of Mediterranean marine protected areas: habitat, scale and the natural variability of ecosystems

    J.A. García Charton;I.D. Williams;A. Pérez Ruzafa;M. Milazzo

  • Distribution of sea urchins living near shallow water CO2 vents is dependent upon species acid-base and ion-regulatory abilities

    Piero Calosi;S P S Rastrick;M Graziano;M Graziano;S C Thomas

  • Responses of marine benthic microalgae to elevated CO2

    Vivienne R Johnson;Colin Brownlee;Rosalind E M Rickaby;M Graziano;M Graziano

  • Inorganic carbon physiology underpins macroalgal responses to elevated CO2

    Christopher E. Cornwall;Andrew T. Revill;Jason M. Hall-Spencer;Jason M. Hall-Spencer;Marco Milazzo

  • Macroalgal responses to ocean acidification depend on nutrient and light levels

    Paula S M Celis-Plá;Paula S M Celis-Plá;Jason M Hall-Spencer;Paulo Antunes Horta;Marco Milazzo

Frequent Co-Authors

Jason M. Hall-Spencer
Jason M. Hall-Spencer Plymouth University
Fabio Badalamenti
Fabio Badalamenti National Research Council (CNR)
Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa
Riccardo Rodolfo-Metalpa Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Paolo Guidetti
Paolo Guidetti Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi
Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi University of Pisa
Paolo Domenici
Paolo Domenici National Research Council (CNR)
Michele Gristina
Michele Gristina National Research Council (CNR)
Gianluca Sarà
Gianluca Sarà University of Palermo
Nathan J. Bennett
Nathan J. Bennett University of British Columbia
Joachim Claudet
Joachim Claudet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS

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