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Michele Casini

Michele Casini

D-Index & Metrics

Ecology and Evolution

D-Index
44
Citations
7566
World Ranking
5066
National Ranking
92

Michele Casini publication distribution in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the distribution of publications by all Research.com ranked scientists in the field of Ecology and Evolution in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michele Casini sits on this spectrum.

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37 publications 531+

This scientist: 151 publications — 53rd percentile

53% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 531 publications or more.

Michele Casini D-index placement in Ecology and Evolution in 2026

The chart shows the D-index (discipline H-index) distribution of Ecology and Evolution scientists ranked by Research.com in 2026. The highlighted bar marks where Michele Casini sits on this spectrum.

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30 D-Index 121+

This scientist: 44 D-Index — 41st percentile

41% of scientists in this discipline score the same or lower.

The last bar groups every scientist with 121 D-Index or more.

Overview

Michele Casini is affiliated with the University of Bologna in Italy and works primarily in the field of Environmental Science. Their research interests span a range of subfields including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Oceanography, and Aquatic Science.

The main topics covered in Casini's work include Marine and fisheries research, Fish Ecology and Management Studies, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Isotope Analysis in Ecology, Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine animal studies overview, and Ichthyology and Marine Biology.

Casini has published a number of recent scientific papers prominently in marine and aquatic sciences. These include:

  • Ecological adaptation in Atlantic herring is associated with large shifts in allele frequencies at hundreds of loci (2020, eLife)
  • Seeking the true time: Exploring otolith chemistry as an age-determination tool (2020, Journal of Fish Biology)
  • First tagging data on large Atlantic bluefin tuna returning to Nordic waters suggest repeated behaviour and skipped spawning (2022, Scientific Reports)
  • Multidecadal changes in fish growth rates estimated from tagging data: A case study from the Eastern Baltic cod (Gadus morhua, Gadidae) (2020, Fish and Fisheries)
  • Diet of dominant demersal fish species in the Baltic Sea: Is flounder stealing benthic food from cod? (2020, Marine Ecology Progress Series)

Frequent co-authors collaborating with Casini include Karin Hüssy, Federico Maioli, Valerio Bartolino, Krzysztof Radtke, and Monica Mion. These collaborations reflect ongoing work across related areas in fisheries and marine ecology.

Casini's publications appear regularly in several key scientific venues, such as ICES Journal of Marine Science, bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory), Fisheries Oceanography, Scientific Reports, and Marine Ecology Progress Series.

Best Publications

  • The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean

    Thorsten B. H. Reusch;Jan Dierking;Helen C. Andersson;Erik Bonsdorff

  • 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

  • The genetic basis for ecological adaptation of the Atlantic herring revealed by genome sequencing

    Álvaro Martínez Barrio;Sangeet Lamichhaney;Guangyi Fan;Nima Rafati

  • Recruitment failure of coastal predatory fish in the Baltic Sea coincident with an offshore ecosystem regime shift

    Lars Ljunggren;Alfred Sandstrom;Ulf Bergstrom;Johanna Mattila

  • A holistic view of marine regime shifts

    Alessandra Conversi;Alessandra Conversi;Vasilis Dakos;Anna Gårdmark;Scott Ling

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

    Michele Casini;Massimiliano Cardinale;Fredrik Arrhenius

  • 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

  • Effects of Altered Offshore Food Webs on Coastal Ecosystems Emphasize the Need for Cross-Ecosystem Management

    Britas Klemens Eriksson;Katrin Sieben;Johan Eklöf;Lars Ljunggren

  • Hypoxic areas, density-dependence and food limitation drive the body condition of a heavily exploited marine fish predator.

    Michele Casini;Filip Käll;Martin Hansson;Maris Plikshs

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

    Margit Eero;Joakim Hjelm;Jane Behrens;Kurt Buchmann

  • Climate variability drives anchovies and sardines into the North and Baltic Seas

    Juergen Alheit;Thomas Pohlmann;Michele Casini;Wulf Greve

  • Making the ecosystem approach operational—Can regime shifts in ecological- and governance systems facilitate the transition?

    H. Österblom;A. Gårdmark;L. Bergström;B. Müller-Karulis

  • Predator transitory spillover induces trophic cascades in ecological sinks.

    Michele Casini;Thorsten Blenckner;Christian Möllmann;Anna Gårdmark

  • Implementing ecosystem-based fisheries management: from single-species to integrated ecosystem assessment and advice for Baltic Sea fish stocks

    Christian Möllmann;Martin Lindegren;Thorsten Blenckner;Lena Bergström

  • Stickleback increase in the Baltic Sea : A thorny issue for coastal predatory fish

    Ulf Bergstrom;Jens Olsson;Michele Casini;Britas Klemens Eriksson

  • Linking fisheries, trophic interactions and climate: threshold dynamics drive herring Clupea harengus growth in the central Baltic Sea

    Michele Casini;Valerio Bartolino;Juan Carlos Molinero;Georgs Kornilovs

  • 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

  • Spatial management of marine resources can enhance the recovery of predators and avoid local depletion of forage fish

    Margit Eero;Morten Vinther;Holger Haslob;Bastian Huwer

  • 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

Frequent Co-Authors

Massimiliano Cardinale
Massimiliano Cardinale Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Anna Gårdmark
Anna Gårdmark Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Leif Andersson
Leif Andersson Texas A&M University
Christian Möllmann
Christian Möllmann Universität Hamburg
Thorsten Blenckner
Thorsten Blenckner Stockholm Resilience Centre
Martin Lindegren
Martin Lindegren Technical University of Denmark
Ulf Bergström
Ulf Bergström Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences
Karin E. Limburg
Karin E. Limburg SUNY College of Environmental Science and Forestry
Arild Folkvord
Arild Folkvord University of Bergen
Carl Folke
Carl Folke Stockholm University

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