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Michele Gristina is affiliated with the National Research Council (CNR) in Italy and has an extensive publication record focusing on environmental and aquatic sciences. Their research mainly covers areas within Environmental Science and Agricultural and Biological Sciences, with specialized subfields including Aquatic Science, Global and Planetary Change, Nature and Landscape Conservation, Ecology, and Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law.

The main topics addressed in their work involve Aquatic life and conservation, Ichthyology and Marine Biology, Marine and fisheries research, Fish Biology and Ecology Studies, Coastal Management and Development, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, and Marine and Coastal Ecosystems.

Gristina has contributed to several recent papers, among them:

  • Ontogenetic trophic segregation between two threatened smooth-hound sharks in the Central Mediterranean Sea, 2020, Scientific Reports
  • Density Decline in a Mediterranean Seahorse Population: Natural Fluctuations or New Emerging Threats?, 2021, Frontiers in Marine Science
  • Sandbar shark aggregation in the central Mediterranean Sea and potential effects of tourism, 2021, Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • Large-Scale Distribution of the European Seahorses (Hippocampus Rafinesque, 1810): A Systematic Review, 2022, Biology
  • Evaluating the Efficiency of DNA Metabarcoding to Analyze the Diet of Hippocampus guttulatus (Teleostea: Syngnathidae), 2021, Life

Their frequent coauthors include:

  • Cataldo Pierri
  • Tamara Lazic
  • Giuseppe Corriero
  • Frine Cardone
  • Marinella Marzano

Publications by Michele Gristina have commonly appeared in the following venues:

  • Frontiers in Marine Science
  • 2022 IEEE International Workshop on Metrology for the Sea; Learning to Measure Sea Health Parameters (MetroSea)
  • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • Scientific Reports
  • Biology

Best Publications

  • Seagrass meadows (Posidonia oceanica) distribution and trajectories of change

    Luca Telesca;Andrea Belluscio;Alessandro Criscoli;Giandomenico Ardizzone

  • Coralligenous and maërl habitats: predictive modelling to identify their spatial distributions across the Mediterranean Sea

    Corinne Martin;M Giannoulaki;F De Leo;M Scardi

  • Bioaccumulation of heavy metals in fish, crustaceans, molluscs and echinoderms from the Tuscany coast.

    Maria Bonsignore;Daniela Salvagio Manta;Simone Mirto;Enza Maria Quinci

  • Monitoring and evaluation of spatially managed areas: A generic framework for implementation of ecosystem based marine management and its application

    Vanessa Stelzenmüller;Patricia Breen;Tammy Stamford;Frank Thomsen

  • Climate change exacerbates interspecific interactions in sympatric coastal fishes

    Marco Milazzo;Simone Mirto;Paolo Domenici;Michele Gristina

  • Phylogeography of the European spiny lobster (Palinurus elephas): Influence of current oceanographical features and historical processes.

    Ferran Palero;Pere Abelló;Enrique Macpherson;M. Gristina

  • Predictive habitat suitability models to aid conservation of elasmobranch diversity in the central Mediterranean Sea

    V. Lauria;M. Gristina;M. J. Attrill;F. Fiorentino

  • SMART: A Spatially Explicit Bio-Economic Model for Assessing and Managing Demersal Fisheries, with an Application to Italian Trawlers in the Strait of Sicily

    Tommaso Russo;Antonio Parisi;Germana Garofalo;Michele Gristina

  • Comparison of demersal fish assemblages in three areas of the Strait of Sicily under different trawling pressure

    M. Gristina;T. Bahri;F. Fiorentino;G. Garofalo

  • Persistence and co-occurrence of demersal nurseries in the Strait of Sicily (central Mediterranean): Implications for fishery management

    G. Garofalo;T. Fortibuoni;M. Gristina;M. Sinopoli

  • Reconstruction of Italy’s marine fisheries removals and fishing capacity, 1950–2010

    Chiara Piroddi;Michele Gristina;Kyrstn Zylich;Krista Greer

  • Effects of Dredging Activities on Population Dynamics of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile in the Mediterranean Sea: The Case Study of Capo Feto (SW Sicily, Italy)

    Fabio Badalamenti;Giuseppe Di Carlo;Giovanni D’Anna;Michele Gristina

  • Species distribution models of two critically endangered deep-sea octocorals reveal fishing impacts on vulnerable marine ecosystems in central Mediterranean Sea.

    V. Lauria;G. Garofalo;F. Fiorentino;D. Massi

  • Abundance, distribution and habitat preference of Hippocampus guttulatus and Hippocampus hippocampus in a semi‐enclosed central Mediterranean marine area

    Michele Gristina;Frine Cardone;Roberto Carlucci;Laura Castellano

  • Benthic-pelagic coupling mediates interactions in Mediterranean mixed fisheries: An ecosystem modeling approach.

    Davide Agnetta;Fabio Badalamenti;Francesco Colloca;Giovanni D’Anna

  • Meiofauna as an indicator for assessing the impact of fish farming at an exposed marine site

    Simone Mirto;Michele Gristina;Mauro Sinopoli;Giulia Maricchiolo

  • Acoustic behaviour of the European spiny lobster Palinurus elephas

    G. Buscaino;F. Filiciotto;M. Gristina;A. Bellante

  • Changes in spawning-stock structure and recruitment pattern of red mullet, Mullus barbatus, after a trawl ban in the Gulf of Castellammare (central Mediterranean Sea)

    F. Fiorentino;F. Badalamenti;G. D’Anna;G. Garofalo

  • Ocean acidification affects fish spawning but not paternity at CO2 seeps.

    Marco Milazzo;Carlo Cattano;Suzanne H. Alonzo;Andrew Foggo

  • CORRIGENDUM: Coralligenous and maërl habitats: predictive modelling to identify their spatial distributions across the Mediterranean Sea

    C. S. Martin;M. Giannoulaki;F. De Leo;M. Scardi

Frequent Co-Authors

Fabio Badalamenti
Fabio Badalamenti National Research Council (CNR)
Simone Mirto
Simone Mirto National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
Simonetta Fraschetti
Simonetta Fraschetti University of Naples Federico II
Graziano Pesole
Graziano Pesole University of Bari Aldo Moro
Patrick J. Schembri
Patrick J. Schembri University of Malta
Christine N. Meynard
Christine N. Meynard Montpellier SupAgro
Marco Milazzo
Marco Milazzo University of Palermo
Yunne-Jai Shin
Yunne-Jai Shin Institut de Recherche pour le Développement
Emma Cebrian
Emma Cebrian Spanish National Research Council
Enric Massutí
Enric Massutí Spanish National Research Council

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