XXV Congresso AIOL – Plenary lectures
Antonio Pusceddu
Affiliation
Università degli Studi di Cagliari, Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell’Ambiente, Via Fiorelli 1, Cagliari, Italia
Plenary lecture
Biopolymeric C in marine sediments: origin, composition, spatial-temporal patterns, and ecological significance
Biosketch
I’m Full Professor of Ecology and Coordinator of the Biology School at the University of Cagliari and Vice-President of the Italian Society of Ecology. I’ve been President (2016-2019) and Vice-President (2012-2015) of the Italian Association of Limnology and Oceanography. Formerly Associate Professor (2008-2015) and Senior Researcher (1998-2008) at the Polytechnic University of Marche (2008-2015), PhD in Marine Environmental Sciences (University of Genoa, 1997) and Degree in Biology (University of Cagliari, 1991). I coordinate the project “Marine habitats restoration in a climate change-impaired Mediterranean Sea” (2020-2022) and participated in many local, national and international projects. I carried out my research in several marine ecosystems, from transitional ecosystems to the oceans’ hadal depths. My research interests deal with the trophodynamics of marine benthic ecosystems and ascertaining how they vary in response to different typologies of natural or anthropogenic disturbance, including climate change. I authored 130 articles in international ranked journals, currently score a Hirsch factor of 39 and >4300 citations (SCOPUS, January 2020). Since July 2017 I’m included in the Top Italian Scientists list (Natural & Environmental Scientists) of VIA. I’m currently the Co-Editor in Chief of Advances in Oceanography and Limnology (AIOL Journal).
WEB
https://unica.it/unica/it/ateneo_s07_ss01.page?contentId=SHD30902
Selected publications
- Pusceddu A., Dell’Anno A., Fabiano M., Danovaro R. (2009) Quantity and bioavailability of sediment organic matter as signatures of benthic trophic status. Marine Ecology Progress Series, 375: 41-52
- Pusceddu A., Bianchelli S., Canals M., Sanchez-Vidal A., Durrieu De Madron X., Heussner S., Lykousis V., de Stigter H., Trincardi F., Danovaro R. (2010) Organic matter in sediments of canyons and open slopes of the Portuguese, Catalan, Southern Adriatic and Cretan Sea margins. Deep-Sea Research I, 57: 441-457
- Pusceddu A., Mea M., Canals M., Heussner S., Durrieu de Madron X., Sanchez-Vidal A., Bianchelli S., Corinaldesi C., Dell’Anno A., Thomsen L., Danovaro R. (2013) Major consequences of an intense dense shelf water cascading event on deep-sea benthic trophic conditions and meiofaunal biodiversity. Biogeosciences, 10: 2659-2670
- Pusceddu A., Bianchelli S., Martín J., Puig P., Palanques A., Masqué P., Danovaro R. (2014) Chronic and intensive bottom trawling impairs deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystem functioning. Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States of America 111(24): 8861-8866
- Pusceddu A., Fraschetti S., Scopa M., Rizzo L., Danovaro R. (2016) Meiofauna communities, nematode diversity and C degradation rates in seagrass (Posidonia oceanica L.) and unvegetated sediments invaded by the algae Caulerpa cylindracea (Sonder). Marine Environmental Research, 119: 88-99
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