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Massimiliano Cardinale is affiliated with the Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences in Sweden. Their research primarily focuses on environmental science, with a notable concentration in global and planetary change as well as ecology. Cardinale's work extensively covers marine and fisheries research, fish ecology and management studies, and marine bivalve and aquaculture studies.

The main fields of study for Cardinale include:

  • Environmental Science

Their subfields of study further specify areas such as:

  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Nature and Landscape Conservation
  • Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
  • Ecological Modeling

Cardinale's research topics encompass:

  • Marine and fisheries research
  • Fish Ecology and Management Studies
  • Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
  • Avian ecology and behavior
  • Animal Behavior and Reproduction
  • Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
  • Wildlife Ecology and Conservation

The scientist has contributed to numerous publications, with papers distributed across several well-known academic journals. Among the frequent venues for Cardinale's publications are:

  • ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • Fisheries Research
  • Fish and Fisheries
  • Ecology and Evolution
  • PLoS ONE

Recent significant papers authored or coauthored by Cardinale include:

  • "A cookbook for using model diagnostics in integrated stock assessments", 2021, Fisheries Research
  • "Something old, something new: Historical perspectives provide lessons for blue growth agendas", 2020, Fish and Fisheries
  • "Validation of stock assessment methods: is it me or my model talking?", 2021, ICES Journal of Marine Science
  • "First tagging data on large Atlantic bluefin tuna returning to Nordic waters suggest repeated behaviour and skipped spawning", 2022, Scientific Reports
  • "Ticks (Acari: Ixodidae) on birds migrating to the island of Ponza, Italy, and the tick-borne pathogens they carry", 2020, Ticks and Tick-borne Diseases

Cardinale collaborates frequently with several co-authors, most notably:

  • Henning Winker
  • Leonida Fusani
  • Ivan Maggini
  • Valerio Bartolino
  • Christopher A. Griffiths

Best Publications

  • Trophic cascades promote threshold-like shifts in pelagic marine ecosystems

    Michele Casini;Joakim Hjelm;Juan-Carlos Molinero;Johan Lövgren

  • Multi-level trophic cascades in a heavily exploited open marine ecosystem

    Michele Casini;Johan Lövgren;Joakim Hjelm;Massimiliano Cardinale

  • Effects of sex, stock, and environment on the shape of known-age Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) otoliths

    M. Cardinale;P. Doering-Arjes;M. Kastowsky;H. Mosegaard

  • Rebuilding Mediterranean fisheries: a new paradigm for ecological sustainability

    Francesco Colloca;Massimiliano Cardinale;Francesc Maynou;Marianna Giannoulaki

  • Feeding preferences of herring (Clupea harengus) and sprat (Sprattus sprattus) in the southern Baltic Sea

    Michele Casini;Massimiliano Cardinale;Fredrik Arrhenius

  • Pattern of distribution and diversity of demersal assemblages in the central Mediterranean Sea

    F Colloca;M Cardinale;A Belluscio;G Ardizzone

  • Inter‐annual variation in herring, Clupea harengus, and sprat, Sprattus sprattus, condition in the central Baltic Sea: what gives the tune?

    Michele Casini;Massimiliano Cardinale;Joakim Hjelm

  • Eastern Baltic cod in distress: biological changes and challenges for stock assessment

    Margit Eero;Joakim Hjelm;Jane Behrens;Kurt Buchmann

  • Oxidative damage and anti-oxidant capacity in two migratory bird species at a stop-over site.

    David Costantini;Massimiliano Cardinale;Claudio Carere

  • Changes in size-at-maturity of Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) during a period of large variations in stock size and environmental conditions

    M. Cardinale;J. Modin

  • Decreasing weight-at-age of Atlantic herring (Clupea harengus) from the Baltic Sea between 1986 and 1996: a statistical analysis

    M. Cardinale;F. Arrhenius

  • Diel spatial distribution and feeding activity of herring ( Clupea harengus) and sprat (Sprattus sprattus) in the Baltic Sea

    Massimiliano Cardinale;Michele Casini;Fredrik Arrhenius;Nils Håkansson

  • Stopover decision during migration: physiological conditions predict nocturnal restlessness in wild passerines

    Leonida Fusani;Massimiliano Cardinale;Claudio Carere;Wolfgang Goymann

  • Mediterranean Sea: A Failure of the European Fisheries Management System

    Massimiliano Cardinale;Giuseppe Scarcella

  • Spatial and temporal density dependence regulates the condition of central Baltic Sea clupeids: compelling evidence using an extensive international acoustic survey

    Michele Casini;Georgs Kornilovs;Massimiliano Cardinale;Christian Möllmann

  • Histological analysis invalidates macroscopically determined maturity ogives of the Kattegat cod (Gadus morhua) and suggests new proxies for estimating maturity status of individual fish

    F. Vitale;H. Svedäng;M. Cardinale

  • The influence of stock structure and environmental conditions on the recruitment process of Baltic cod estimated using a generalized additive model

    M Cardinale;F Arrhenius

  • Rebuilding EU fish stocks and fisheries, a process under way?

    M. Cardinale;H. Dörner;A. Abella;J.L. Andersen

  • ICES meets marine historical ecology: placing the history of fish and fisheries in current policy context

    Georg H. Engelhard;Georg H. Engelhard;Ruth H. Thurstan;Brian R. MacKenzie;Heidi K. Alleway

  • Potential use of otolith weight for the determination of age-structure of Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) and plaice (Pleuronectes platessa)

    M. Cardinale;F. Arrhenius;B. Johnsson

  • Modelling recruitment and abundance of Atlantic cod, Gadus morhua, in the eastern Skagerrak-Kattegat (North Sea): evidence of severe depletion due to a prolonged period of high fishing pressure

    Massimiliano Cardinale;Henrik Svedäng

Frequent Co-Authors

Leonida Fusani
Leonida Fusani University of Veterinary Medicine Vienna
Michele Casini
Michele Casini University of Bologna
Didier Gascuel
Didier Gascuel Institut Agro, France
Wolfgang Goymann
Wolfgang Goymann Max Planck Society
Claudio Carere
Claudio Carere Tuscia University
Georg H. Engelhard
Georg H. Engelhard Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
Simon Jennings
Simon Jennings Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science
John F. Casey
John F. Casey University of Houston
Luigi Maiorano
Luigi Maiorano Sapienza University of Rome
Hans W. Linderholm
Hans W. Linderholm University of Gothenburg

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