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Marino Vacchi is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy. Their research primarily centers around environmental science and health professions, with a strong emphasis on marine biology and ecological studies. Their work spans various subfields including ecology, global and planetary change, philosophy, and nature and landscape conservation.

The scientist's main topics of research focus on hermeneutics and narrative identity, aging, elder care, social issues, health, medicine and society, marine animal studies, marine and fisheries research, ichthyology, marine biology, and fish biology and ecology studies.

Among their recent publications are:

  • Antarctic ecosystems in transition - life between stresses and opportunities (2020), Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • MEDLEM database, a data collection on large Elasmobranchs in the Mediterranean and Black seas (2020), Mediterranean Marine Science
  • Biological responses to change in Antarctic sea ice habitats (2023), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Productivity and Change in Fish and Squid in the Southern Ocean (2021), Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Recent findings of some uncommon fishes from the central Tyrrhenian Sea (2021), Société Française d'Ichtyologie

Marino Vacchi frequently publishes in the following venues:

  • Société Française d'Ichtyologie
  • Polar Biology
  • Biological reviews/Biological reviews of the Cambridge Philosophical Society
  • Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution
  • Journal of Marine Science and Engineering

Collaborations are a significant part of this scientist's work, with frequent co-authors including Laura Ghigliotti, Davide Di Blasi, Erica Carlig, José C. Xavier, and Philippe Koubbi. These collaborations reflect a network that spans across marine ecological and biological research.

Best Publications

  • The role of notothenioid fish in the food web of the Ross Sea shelf waters: a review

    M. La Mesa;J. T. Eastman;M. Vacchi

  • Early life stages in the life cycle of Antarctic silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum in Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea

    Marino Vacchi;Mario La Mesa;Massimo Dalu;John Macdonald

  • An Analysis of the Coastal Fish Assemblage of the Ustica Island Marine Reserve (Mediterranean Sea)

    Gabriele La Mesa;Marino Vacchi

  • Antarctic ecosystems in transition – life between stresses and opportunities

    Julian Gutt;Enrique Isla;José C. Xavier;José C. Xavier;Byron J. Adams

  • The Ligurian Sea: present status, problems and perspectives

    R. Cattaneo Vietti;G. Albertelli;S. Aliani;S. Bava

  • Molecular pedomorphism underlies craniofacial skeletal evolution in Antarctic notothenioid fishes

    R Craig Albertson;Yi-Lin Yan;Tom A Titus;Eva Pisano

  • Evaluating the genotoxic damage and hepatic tissue alterations in demersal fish species: a case study in the Ligurian Sea (NW-Mediterranean)

    D Pietrapiana;M Modena;P Guidetti;C Falugi

  • Mediterranean fish biodiversity: an updated inventory with focus on the Ligurian and Tyrrhenian seas

    Peter Nick Psomadakis;Stefano Giustino;Marino Vacchi

  • Assessment of microhabitat preferences in juvenile dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus) by visual sampling

    G. La Mesa;P. Louisy;M. Vacchi

  • Age and growth of high Antarctic notothenioid fish

    M. La Mesa;M. Vacchi

  • Diet of two coastal nototheniid fish from terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea

    M. Vacchi;M. La Mesa;A. Castelli

  • Observations of crypt neuron-like cells in the olfactory epithelium of a cartilaginous fish

    Sara Ferrando;Massimiliano Bottaro;Lorenzo Gallus;Laura Girosi

  • Influence of environmental conditions on spatial distribution and abundance of early life stages of Antarctic silverfish, Pleuragramma antarcticum (Nototheniidae), in the Ross Sea

    Mario La Mesa;Barbara Catalano;Aniello Russo;Silvio Greco

  • Abundance and size structure of Thalassoma pavo (Pisces: Labridae) in the western Mediterranean Sea: variability at different spatial scales

    Paolo Guidetti;Carlo Nike Bianchi;Gabriele La Mesa;Milena Modena

  • Structure of a Mediterranean cryptobenthic fish community and its relationships with habitat characteristics

    G. La Mesa;S. Di Muccio;M. Vacchi

  • A nursery area for the Antarctic silverfish Pleuragramma antarcticum at Terra Nova Bay (Ross Sea): first estimate of distribution and abundance of eggs and larvae under the seasonal sea-ice

    Marino Vacchi;Arthur L. DeVries;Clive W. Evans;Massimiliano Bottaro

  • Trophic ecology of the emerald notothen Trematomus bernacchii (Pisces, Nototheniidae) from Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica

    Unknown

  • Antarctic scallop (Adamussium colbecki) spatial population variability along the Victoria Land Coast, Antarctica

    Mariachiara Chiantore;Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti;Paul Arthur Berkman;Marco Nigro

  • Recent findings of some uncommon fishes from the central Tyrrhenian Sea

    Peter Nick Psomadakis;Umberto Scacco;Marino Vacchi

  • STUDY OF THE COASTAL FISH ASSEMBLAGE IN THE MARINE RESERVE OF THE USTICA ISLAND (SOUTHERN TYRRHENIAN SEA)

    Marino Vacchi;Simona Bussotti;Paolo Guidetti;Gabriele La Mesa

  • Ichthyoplankton abundance and distribution in the Ross Sea during 1987–1996

    Unknown

  • Biological responses to change in Antarctic sea ice habitats

    Unknown

  • The Coastal Fish Fauna of Terra Nova Bay, Ross Sea, Antarctica

    M. Vacchi;M. La Mesa;S. Greco

Frequent Co-Authors

Paolo Guidetti
Paolo Guidetti Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Philippe Koubbi
Philippe Koubbi Biologie des Organismes et Écosystèmes Aquatiques
Benjamin P. Horton
Benjamin P. Horton City University of Hong Kong
Mariachiara Chiantore
Mariachiara Chiantore University of Genoa
Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti
Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti University of Genoa
Simon E. Engelhart
Simon E. Engelhart Durham University
Andrea Dutton
Andrea Dutton University of Florida
Giancarlo Albertelli
Giancarlo Albertelli University of Genoa
Mauro Fabiano
Mauro Fabiano University of Genoa
Alessio Rovere
Alessio Rovere University of Bremen

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