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Paolo Galli is a researcher affiliated with the University of Milano-Bicocca in Italy specializing in Environmental Science. Their academic work primarily focuses on Ecology, Pollution, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography, and Molecular Biology. The research topics covered by Paolo Galli span Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Microplastics and Plastic Pollution, Marine Sponges and Natural Products, Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies, Identification and Quantification in Food, Recycling and Waste Management Techniques, and Marine Biology and Environmental Chemistry.

Paolo Galli has contributed to multiple scientific publications, with frequent appearances in prominent journals such as Marine Pollution Bulletin, Diversity, The Science of The Total Environment, Coral Reefs, and Scientific Reports. The number of publications in these venues reflects sustained engagement with research communities in marine science and environmental monitoring.

Recent papers authored or co-authored by Paolo Galli include:

  • The release process of microfibers: from surgical face masks into the marine environment (2021), Environmental Advances
  • Novel universal primers for metabarcoding environmental DNA surveys of marine mammals and other marine vertebrates (2020), Environmental DNA
  • Multi-Temporal UAV Data and Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) for Estimation of Substrate Changes in a Post-Bleaching Scenario on a Maldivian Reef (2020), Remote Sensing
  • The aquaculture supply chain in the time of covid-19 pandemic: Vulnerability, resilience, solutions and priorities at the global scale (2021), Environmental Science & Policy
  • Spatial variability of phthalates contamination in the reef-building corals Porites lutea, Pocillopora verrucosa and Pavona varians (2020), Marine Pollution Bulletin

Paolo Galli regularly collaborates with several co-authors, including Simone Montano, Davide Seveso, Francesco Saliu, Davide Maggioni, and Enrico Montalbetti. These collaborations contribute to interdisciplinary research efforts in the field of environmental and marine sciences.

Best Publications

  • Preliminary investigation on the environmental occurrence and effects of antibiotics used in aquaculture in Italy.

    Giorgia Mary Lalumera;Davide Calamari;Paolo Galli;Sara Castiglioni

  • DNA barcoding reveals fraudulent substitutions in shark seafood products: The Italian case of “palombo” (Mustelus spp.)

    M. Barbuto;A. Galimberti;E. Ferri;M. Labra

  • Anthropogenic Marine Debris assessment with Unmanned Aerial Vehicle imagery and deep learning: A case study along the beaches of the Republic of Maldives

    L. Fallati;A. Polidori;C. Salvatore;L. Saponari

  • Additions to the annotated list of marine alien biota in the mediterranean with special emphasis on foraminifera and parasites

    A. Zenetos;E. Meric;Marc Verlaque;P. Galli

  • Microplastic and charred microplastic in the Faafu Atoll, Maldives.

    Francesco Saliu;Simone Montano;Maria Grazia Garavaglia;Marina Lasagni

  • Water quality as a determinant of the composition of fish parasite communities

    P. Galli;G. Crosa;L. Mariniello;M. Ortis

  • The name game: morpho‐molecular species boundaries in the genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia)

    Francesca Benzoni;Fabrizio Stefani;Michel Pichon;Paolo Galli

  • Debating phylogenetic relationships of the scleractinian Psammocora: molecular and morphological evidences

    Francesca Benzoni;Fabrizio Stefani;Jaroslaw Stolarski;Michel Pichon

  • Microplastics as a threat to coral reef environments: Detection of phthalate esters in neuston and scleractinian corals from the Faafu Atoll, Maldives.

    Francesco Saliu;Simone Montano;Barbara Leoni;Marina Lasagni

  • Guide To Monogenoidea Of Freshwater Fish Of Palaearctic And Amur Regions

    P Galli;O Pugachev;D Kritsky

  • A phylogeny reconstruction of the Dendrophylliidae (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) based on molecular and micromorphological criteria, and its ecological implications

    Roberto Arrigoni;Yuko F. Kitano;Jaroslaw Stolarski;Bert W. Hoeksema

  • Comparison of morphological and genetic analyses reveals cryptic divergence and morphological plasticity in Stylophora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia)

    F. Stefani;Francesca Benzoni;S. Y. Yang;M. Pichon

  • Molecular phylogeny of the Robust clade (Faviidae, Mussidae, Merulinidae, and Pectiniidae): An Indian Ocean perspective

    Roberto Arrigoni;Fabrizio Stefani;Fabrizio Stefani;Michel Pichon;Paolo Galli

  • Nurturant behavior toward dead conspecifics in free-ranging mammals: new records for odontocetes and a general review

    Melissa A. L. Reggente;Filipe Alves;Cátia Nicolau;Luís Freitas

  • Distribution of Anisakis simplex in fish caught in the Ligurian Sea.

    M. T. Manfredi;G. Crosa;P. Galli;S. Ganduglia

  • Nestedness for Dummies (NeD): a User Friendly Web Interface for Exploratory Nestedness Analysis

    Giovanni Strona;Paolo Galli;Davide Seveso;Simone Montano

  • Novel universal primers for metabarcoding environmental DNA surveys of marine mammals and other marine vertebrates

    Elena Valsecchi;Jonas Bylemans;Simon J. Goodman;Roberto Lombardi

  • The late MIS 5 Mediterranean tephra markers: a reappraisal from peninsular Italy terrestrial records

    Biagio Giaccio;Sebastien Nomade;Sabine Wulf;Roberto Isaia

  • Lobophylliidae (Cnidaria, Scleractinia) reshuffled: pervasive non-monophyly at genus level.

    Roberto Arrigoni;Tullia Isotta Terraneo;Paolo Galli;Francesca Benzoni;Francesca Benzoni

  • A multidisciplinary approach to the definition of species boundaries in branching species of the coral genus Psammocora (Cnidaria, Scleractinia)

    Fabrizio Stefani;Francesca Benzoni;Michel Pichon;Carlotta Cancelliere

  • Multi-Temporal UAV Data and Object-Based Image Analysis (OBIA) for Estimation of Substrate Changes in a Post-Bleaching Scenario on a Maldivian Reef

    Luca Fallati;Luca Saponari;Alessandra Savini;Fabio M. Marchese

  • Land use and land cover (LULC) of the Republic of the Maldives: first national map and LULC change analysis using remote-sensing data

    Luca Fallati;Alessandra Savini;Simone Sterlacchini;Paolo Galli

Frequent Co-Authors

Francesca Benzoni
Francesca Benzoni King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Fabrizio Galadini
Fabrizio Galadini National Institute of Geophysics and Volcanology
Biagio Giaccio
Biagio Giaccio Institute of Environmental Geology and Geoengineering
Simone Fattorini
Simone Fattorini University of L'Aquila
Bert W. Hoeksema
Bert W. Hoeksema University of Groningen
Michael L. Berumen
Michael L. Berumen King Abdullah University of Science and Technology
Emanuele Tondi
Emanuele Tondi University of Camerino
Sébastien Nomade
Sébastien Nomade Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines University
Giovanni Zanchetta
Giovanni Zanchetta University of Pisa
Stefano Mazzoli
Stefano Mazzoli University of Camerino

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