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Silvano Focardi

Silvano Focardi

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Environmental Sciences
Italy
2023

D-Index & Metrics

Environmental Sciences

D-Index
70
Citations
13734
World Ranking
1723
National Ranking
19

Biology and Biochemistry

D-Index
70
Citations
13671
World Ranking
7175
National Ranking
172

Research.com Recognitions

  • 2023 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Italy Leader Award
  • 2022 - Research.com Environmental Sciences in Italy Leader Award

Overview

Silvano Focardi is affiliated with the University of Siena in Italy and conducts research primarily within the fields of environmental science and earth and planetary sciences. Their work spans several interconnected subfields including ecology, oceanography, global and planetary change, health, toxicology and mutagenesis, and pollution.

The scientist's main research topics focus on pharmaceutical and antibiotic environmental impacts, aquaculture disease management and microbiota, antibiotic resistance in bacteria, avian ecology and behavior, marine and coastal plant biology, climate variability and models, as well as coastal and marine dynamics.

Focardi has contributed to multiple peer-reviewed publications, notably:

  • Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Aquaculture and Climate Change: A Challenge for Health in the Mediterranean Area, 2021, International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Gone fishing: Adélie penguin site-specific foraging tactics and breeding performance, 2020, Antarctic Science
  • Coastal Monitoring and Coastal Erosion: Engineering Interventions for Coastal Protection and Considerations on the Mediterranean Sea, 2023, Preprints.org
  • Production of methylmercury by sulphate-reducing bacteria in sediments from the orbetello lagoon in presence of high macroalgal loads, 2020, Ecological Questions

Their frequent coauthors include Milva Pepi, Silvia Olmastroni, Niccolò Fattorini, Francesco Pezzo, and Claudio Leonzio, indicating collaboration across diverse topics related to environmental sciences and ecology.

Publication venues associated with their work are:

  • International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health
  • Antarctic Science
  • Preprints.org
  • Ecological Questions

Best Publications

  • Perfluorooctanesulfonate and related fluorinated hydrocarbons in marine mammals, fishes, and birds from coasts of the Baltic and the Mediterranean Seas.

    Kurunthachalam Kannan;Simonetta Corsolini;Jerzy Falandysz;Günter Oehme

  • Role of plant biomass in the global environmental partitioning of chlorinated hydrocarbons

    Davide Calamari;Eros Bacci;Silvano Focardi;Carlo Gaggi

  • Oxidative stress in ecotoxicology: from the analysis of individual antioxidants to a more integrated approach

    F. Regoli;S. Gorbi;G. Frenzilli;M. Nigro

  • Passive-Sampler Derived Air Concentrations of Persistent Organic Pollutants on a North-South Transect in Chile

    Karla Pozo;Tom Harner;Mahiba Shoeib;Roberto Urrutia

  • Antibiotic-Resistant Bacteria in Aquaculture and Climate Change: A Challenge for Health in the Mediterranean Area.

    Milva Pepi;Silvano Focardi

  • Congener profile and toxicity assessment of polychlorinated biphenyls in dolphins, sharks and tuna collected from Italian coastal waters

    Simonetta Corsolini;Silvano Focardi;Kurunthachalam Kannan;Shinsuke Tanabe

  • Occurrence of organochlorine pesticides (OCPs) and their enantiomeric signatures, and concentrations of polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) in the Adélie penguin food web, Antarctica.

    Simonetta Corsolini;Adrian Covaci;Nicoletta Ademollo;Silvano Focardi

  • Sex differences in Adélie penguin foraging strategies

    Judy Clarke;Bryan Manly;Knowles Kerry;Heather Gardner

  • Isomer-specific analysis and toxic evaluation of polychlorinated biphenyls in striped dolphins affected by an epizootic in the western Mediterranean sea

    Kurunthachalam Kannan;Shinsuke Tanabe;Assumpció Borrell;Alex Aguilar

  • Elevated cadmium accumulation in marine organisms from Terra Nova Bay (Antarctica)

    Roberto Bargagli;L. Nelli;Stefania Ancora;Silvano Ettore Focardi

  • Integrating enzymatic responses to organic chemical exposure with total oxyradical absorbing capacity and dna damage in the european eel Anguilla anguilla

    Francesco Regoli;Gary W. Winston;Stefania Gorbi;Giada Frenzilli

  • Polychloronaphthalenes and other dioxin-like compounds in Arctic and Antarctic marine food webs

    Simonetta Corsolini;Kurunthachalam Kannan;Takashi Imagawa;Silvano Focardi

  • Accumulation Pattern of Butyltin Compounds in Dolphin, Tuna, and Shark Collected from Italian Coastal Waters

    K. Kannan;S. Corsolini;S. Focardi;S. Tanabe

  • Heavy metals and selenium in stranded dolphins of the northern Tyrrhenian (NW Mediterranean).

    Claudio Leonzio;Silvano Focardi;Cristina Fossi

  • Interactive effects of n-TiO2 and 2,3,7,8-TCDD on the marine bivalve Mytilus galloprovincialis.

    Laura Canesi;Giada Frenzilli;Teresa Balbi;Margherita Bernardeschi

  • Persistent organic pollutants in edible fish: a human and environmental health problem

    Simonetta Corsolini;Nicoletta Ademollo;Teresa Romeo;Silvio Greco

  • Titanium dioxide nanoparticles modulate the toxicological response to cadmium in the gills of Mytilus galloprovincialis.

    Camilla Della Torre;Teresa Balbi;Giacomo Grassi;Giada Frenzilli

  • Biofuel potential production from the Orbetello lagoon macroalgae : A comparison with sunflower feedstock

    Simone Bastianoni;Fazio Coppola;Enzo Tiezzi;Andrea Colacevich

  • The use of non-destructive biomarker in Mediterranean cetaceans: Preliminary data on MFO activity in skin biopsy

    M. Cristina Fossi;Letizia Marsili;Claudio Leonzio;Giuseppe Notarbartolo Di Sciara

  • CHLORINATED HYDROCARBON (HCB, DDTs AND PCBs LEVELS IN CETACEANS STRANDED ALONG THE ITALIAN COASTS: AN OVERVIEW

    Letizia Marsili;Silvano Focardi

Frequent Co-Authors

Ilaria Corsi
Ilaria Corsi University of Siena
Simonetta Corsolini
Simonetta Corsolini University of Siena
Karla Pozo
Karla Pozo Masaryk University
Claudio Leonzio
Claudio Leonzio University of Siena
Maria Cristina Fossi
Maria Cristina Fossi University of Siena
Kurunthachalam Kannan
Kurunthachalam Kannan University at Albany, State University of New York
Ricardo Barra
Ricardo Barra University of Concepción
Letizia Marsili
Letizia Marsili University of Siena
Roberto Urrutia
Roberto Urrutia University of Concepción
Roberto Bargagli
Roberto Bargagli University of Siena

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