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Maria Balsamo

Maria Balsamo

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Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
36
Citations
3768
World Ranking
7230
National Ranking
150

Overview

Maria Balsamo is affiliated with the University of Urbino in Italy and conducts research primarily within the fields of Earth and Planetary Sciences and Environmental Science. Their work notably intersects the subfields of Oceanography, Ecology, and Plant Science, with additional contributions in Global and Planetary Change and Molecular Biology.

The scientist has concentrated their efforts on topics related to Marine Biology and Ecology Research, including Marine and coastal plant biology, Parasite Biology and Host Interactions, Nematode management and characterization studies, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, and Marine Ecology and Invasive Species.

Frequent publication venues for Maria Balsamo include:

  • Water
  • Diversity
  • Zoologischer Anzeiger
  • Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • Marine Pollution Bulletin

Their list of recent papers demonstrates a focus on meiofauna, nematodes, and ecological quality assessment within marine environments:

  • "The curious and neglected soft-bodied meiofauna: Rouphozoa (Gastrotricha and Platyhelminthes)" (2020), published in Hydrobiologia
  • "Changes in taxonomic structure and functional traits of nematodes as tools in the assessment of port impact" (2021), published in Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science
  • "Simple Is the Best: An Alternative Method for the Analysis of Free-Living Nematode Assemblage Structure" (2022), published in Water
  • "Free-living nematodes of Mediterranean ports: A mandatory contribution for their use in ecological quality assessment" (2022), published in Marine Pollution Bulletin
  • "Taxonomic and functional nematode diversity in Maldivian coral degradation zones: patterns across reef typologies and depths" (2022), published in PeerJ

Collaborations are evident throughout their work, with frequent co-authors including:

  • Federica Semprucci
  • Eleonora Grassi
  • Loretta Guidi
  • Lucia Cesaroni
  • Elisa Baldrighi

Best Publications

  • The use of nematodes in assessing ecological quality status in the Mediterranean coastal ecosystems

    Mariapaola Moreno;Federica Semprucci;Luigi Vezzulli;Maria Balsamo

  • Meiofauna as a Tool for Marine Ecosystem Biomonitoring

    Maria Balsamo;Federica Semprucci;Fabrizio Frontalini;Rodolfo Coccioni

  • The biology and ecology of lotic rotifers and gastrotrichs

    Claudia Ricci;Maria Balsamo

  • New Species in the Old World: Europe as a Frontier in Biodiversity Exploration, a Test Bed for 21st Century Taxonomy

    Benoît Fontaine;Kees van Achterberg;Miguel Angel Alonso-Zarazaga;Rafael Araujo

  • Italian marine Gastrotricha: I. Six new and one redescribed species of Chaetonotida

    William D. Hummon;Maria Balsamo;M. Antonio Todaro

  • The distribution of meiofauna on back‐reef sandy platforms in the Maldives (Indian Ocean)

    Federica Semprucci;Paolo Colantoni;Giuseppe Baldelli;Marco Rocchi

  • Meiofauna of the Adriatic Sea: present knowledge and future perspectives.

    M. Balsamo;G. Albertelli;V. U. Ceccherelli;R. Coccioni

  • Benthic communities along a littoral of the Central Adriatic Sea (Italy)

    Federica Semprucci;Paola Boi;Anita Manti;Anabella Covazzi Harriague

  • Comparison of disruption procedures for enumeration of activated sludge floc bacteria by flow cytometry.

    Tania Falcioni;Anita Manti;Paola Boi;Barbara Canonico

  • Meiobenthos and free-living nematodes as tools for biomonitoring environments affected by riverine impact

    F. Semprucci;F. Frontalini;C. Sbrocca;E. Armynot du Châtelet

  • Global diversity of gastrotrichs (Gastrotricha) in fresh waters

    Maria Balsamo;Jean-Loup d’Hondt;Jacek Kisielewski;Lara Pierboni

  • Meiofauna in sandy back-reef platforms differently exposed to the monsoons in the Maldives (Indian Ocean)

    F. Semprucci;P. Colantoni;C. Sbrocca;G. Baldelli

  • The curious and neglected soft-bodied meiofauna: Rouphozoa (Gastrotricha and Platyhelminthes)

    Maria Balsamo;Tom Artois;Julian P. S. Smith;M. Antonio Todaro

  • Thermal preferences in upstream migrating glass‐eels of Anguilla anguilla (L.)

    P. Tongiorgi;L. Tosi;M. Balsamo

  • Do the morphological and functional traits of free-living marine nematodes mirror taxonomical diversity?

    F. Semprucci;L. Cesaroni;L. Guidi;M. Balsamo

  • The Interrelationships of the Gastrotricha Using Nuclear Small rRNA Subunit Sequence Data, with an Interpretation Based on Morphology

    M. Antonio Todaro;D. Timothy J. Littlewood;Maria Balsamo;Elisabeth A. Herniou

  • Assessment of the ecological quality (EcoQ) of the Venice lagoon using the structure and biodiversity of the meiofaunal assemblages

    Federica Semprucci;Maria Balsamo;Roberto Sandulli

  • Changes in taxonomic structure and functional traits of nematodes as tools in the assessment of port impact

    Valentina Losi;Eleonora Grassi;Maria Balsamo;Marco Rocchi

  • The nematode assemblage of a coastal lagoon (Lake Varano, southern Italy): ecology and biodiversity patterns

    Federica Semprucci;Maria Balsamo;Fabrizio Frontalini

  • On the quantitative distribution and community structure of the meio and macrofaunal communities in the coastal area of the Central Adriatic Sea (Italy)

    Fabrizio Frontalini;Federica Semprucci;Rodolfo Coccioni;Maria Balsamo

  • Ultrastructural analyses support different morphological lineages in the phylum Placozoa Grell, 1971.

    Loretta Guidi;Michael Eitel;Erica Cesarini;Bernd Schierwater

  • The nematode assemblage as a tool for the assessment of marine ecological quality status: a case-study in the Central Adriatic Sea

    F. Semprucci;M. Moreno;S. Sbrocca;M. Rocchi

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabrizio Frontalini
Fabrizio Frontalini University of Urbino
Rodolfo Coccioni
Rodolfo Coccioni University of Urbino
Hendrik Segers
Hendrik Segers Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences
Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen
Reinhardt Møbjerg Kristensen University of Copenhagen
Henrik Enghoff
Henrik Enghoff University of Copenhagen
Louis Deharveng
Louis Deharveng French National Museum of Natural History
Mark S. Harvey
Mark S. Harvey Australian Museum
Colin Fontaine
Colin Fontaine French National Centre for Scientific Research
Bernd Schierwater
Bernd Schierwater University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover, Foundation
Giancarlo Albertelli
Giancarlo Albertelli University of Genoa

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