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1987
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Overview

Paolo Guidetti is affiliated with the Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn in Italy. Their research is primarily situated within the field of Environmental Science, with a particular focus on marine ecosystems and conservation.

The scientist has contributed extensively to various subfields, including Global and Planetary Change, Ecology, Oceanography, Nature and Landscape Conservation, and aspects of Management, Monitoring, Policy, and Law. Their work covers a broad spectrum of topics such as Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies, Marine and Fisheries Research, Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies, Marine Ecology and Invasive Species, Coastal and Marine Management, Marine Animal Studies Overview, and Marine and Coastal Plant Biology.

Among their recent publications are the following papers:

  • "The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean" (2021) published in Science
  • "Assessing spillover from marine protected areas and its drivers: A meta-analytical approach" (2020) published in Fish and Fisheries
  • "Environmental DNA effectively captures functional diversity of coastal fish communities" (2020) published in Molecular Ecology
  • "Improving marine protected area governance through collaboration and co-production" (2020) published in Journal of Environmental Management
  • "Effects of marine noise pollution on Mediterranean fishes and invertebrates: A review" (2020) published in Marine Pollution Bulletin

Throughout their career, Paolo Guidetti has frequently collaborated with other researchers. Notable frequent co-authors include Antonio Franco, Antonio Calò, Joachim Claudet, Elena Desiderà, and Marco Milazzo.

Their research has been disseminated through multiple publication venues where they have contributed notably, including:

  • Aquatic Conservation Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
  • Fish and Fisheries
  • Journal of Environmental Management
  • Biological Conservation
  • Journal of Applied Ecology

Best Publications

  • The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean

    Kirsten Grorud-Colvert;Kirsten Grorud-Colvert;Jenna Sullivan-Stack;Callum Roberts;Vanessa Constant

  • Towards a sustainable and equitable blue economy

    Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor;Andrés M. Cisneros-Montemayor;Jessica Blythe;Jennifer J. Silver

  • Italian marine reserve effectiveness: Does enforcement matter?

    Paolo Guidetti;Marco Milazzo;Simona Bussotti;Andrea Molinari

  • Differences Among Fish Assemblages Associated with Nearshore Posidonia oceanica Seagrass Beds, Rocky–algal Reefs and Unvegetated Sand Habitats in the Adriatic Sea

    P. Guidetti

  • The Structure of Mediterranean Rocky Reef Ecosystems across Environmental and Human Gradients, and Conservation Implications

    Enric Sala;Enric Ballesteros;Panagiotis Dendrinos;Antonio Di Franco

  • Marine reserves reestablish lost predatory interactions and cause community changes in rocky reefs.

    Paolo Guidetti

  • Community-wide effects of marine reserves in the Mediterranean Sea

    Paolo Guidetti;Enric Sala

  • Revisiting “Success” and “Failure” of Marine Protected Areas: A Conservation Scientist Perspective

    Sylvaine Giakoumi;Sylvaine Giakoumi;Jennifer McGowan;Morena Mills;Morena Mills;Maria Beger;Maria Beger

  • Fish mitigate trophic depletion in marine cave ecosystems

    Simona Bussotti;Antonio Di Franco;Carlo Nike Bianchi;Pierre Chevaldonné

  • Five key attributes can increase marine protected areas performance for small-scale fisheries management.

    Antonio Di Franco;Pierre Thiriet;Giuseppe Di Carlo;Charalampos Dimitriadis

  • Local support for conservation is associated with perceptions of good governance, social impacts, and ecological effectiveness

    Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Nathan J. Bennett;Antonio Di Franco;Antonio Calò;Elizabeth Nethery

  • Spillover from marine protected areas to adjacent fisheries has an ecological and a fishery component

    Manfredi Di Lorenzo;Joachim Claudet;Paolo Guidetti

  • Large-scale assessment of Mediterranean marine protected areas effects on fish assemblages.

    Paolo Guidetti;Pasquale Baiata;Enric Ballesteros;Antonio Di Franco

  • Ecological effects of full and partial protection in the crowded Mediterranean Sea: a regional meta-analysis

    Sylvaine Giakoumi;Sylvaine Giakoumi;Claudia Scianna;Jeremiah Grahm Plass-Johnson;Jeremiah Grahm Plass-Johnson;Fiorenza Micheli

  • The science of European marine reserves: Status, efficacy, and future needs

    Phillip B Fenberg;Jennifer E Caselle;Joachim Claudet;Michaela Clemence

  • Multivariate and univariate asymmetrical analyses in environmental impact assessment: a case study of Mediterranean subtidal sessile assemblages

    Antonio Terlizzi;Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi;Stanislao Bevilacqua;Simonetta Fraschetti

  • Matching genetics with oceanography: directional gene flow in a Mediterranean fish species

    C. Schunter;C. Schunter;J. Carreras-Carbonell;J. Carreras-Carbonell;E. Macpherson;J. Tintoré

  • Comanagement practices enhance fisheries in marine protected areas.

    Paolo Guidetti;Joachim Claudet

  • Assessing spillover from marine protected areas and its drivers: A meta‐analytical approach

    Manfredi Di Lorenzo;Paolo Guidetti;Antonio Di Franco;Antonio Di Franco;Antonio Calò;Antonio Calò

  • Consumers of sea urchins, Paracentrotus lividus and Arbacia lixula , in shallow Mediterranean rocky reefs

    Paolo Guidetti

  • Distribution patterns of sea urchins and barrens in shallow Mediterranean rocky reefs impacted by the illegal fishery of the rock-boring mollusc Lithophaga lithophaga

    P. Guidetti;S. Fraschetti;A. Terlizzi;F. Boero

  • Effects of the edible sea urchin, Paracentrotus lividus, fishery along the Apulian rocky coast (SE Italy, Mediterranean Sea)

    Paolo Guidetti;Antonio Terlizzi;Ferdinando Boero

Frequent Co-Authors

Ferdinando Boero
Ferdinando Boero Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Sylvaine Giakoumi
Sylvaine Giakoumi University of Queensland
Joachim Claudet
Joachim Claudet Centre national de la recherche scientifique, CNRS
Antonio Terlizzi
Antonio Terlizzi Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Patrice Francour
Patrice Francour Université Côte d'Azur
Simonetta Fraschetti
Simonetta Fraschetti University of Naples Federico II
Luisa Mangialajo
Luisa Mangialajo Université Paris Cité
Carlo Nike Bianchi
Carlo Nike Bianchi Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Marino Vacchi
Marino Vacchi National Research Council (CNR)
Marco Milazzo
Marco Milazzo University of Palermo

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