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The trade-off between heat tolerance and metabolic cost drives the bimodal life strategy at the air-water interface (2016)
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Fusi, M., Cannicci, S., Daffonchio, D., Mostert, B., Pörtner, H., & Giomi, F. (2016). The trade-off between heat tolerance and metabolic cost drives the bimodal life strategy at the air-water interface. Scientific Reports, 6(1), https://doi.org/10.1038/srep19158

The principle of oxygen and capacity limitation of thermal tolerance in ectotherms suggests that the long-term upper limits of an organism's thermal niche are equivalent to the upper limits of the organism's functional capacity for oxygen provision t... Read More about The trade-off between heat tolerance and metabolic cost drives the bimodal life strategy at the air-water interface.

Contrasting environments shape thermal physiology across the spatial range of the sandhopper Talorchestia capensis (2015)
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Baldanzi, S., Weidberg, N. F., Fusi, M., Cannicci, S., McQuaid, C. D., & Porri, F. (2015). Contrasting environments shape thermal physiology across the spatial range of the sandhopper Talorchestia capensis. Oecologia, 179(4), 1067-1078. https://doi.org/10.1007/s00442-015-3404-5

Integrating thermal physiology and species range extent can contribute to a better understanding of the likely effects of climate change on natural populations. Generally, broadly distributed species show variation in thermal physiology between popul... Read More about Contrasting environments shape thermal physiology across the spatial range of the sandhopper Talorchestia capensis.

Bacterial Diversity and Bioremediation Potential of the Highly Contaminated Marine Sediments at El-Max District (Egypt, Mediterranean Sea) (2015)
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Amer, R. A., Mapelli, F., El Gendi, H. M., Barbato, M., Goda, D. A., Corsini, A., Cavalca, L., Fusi, M., Borin, S., Daffonchio, D., & Abdel-Fattah, Y. R. (2015). Bacterial Diversity and Bioremediation Potential of the Highly Contaminated Marine Sediments at El-Max District (Egypt, Mediterranean Sea). BioMed Research International, 2015, Article 981829. https://doi.org/10.1155/2015/981829

Coastal environments worldwide are threatened by the effects of pollution, a risk particularly high in semienclosed basins like the Mediterranean Sea that is poorly studied from bioremediation potential perspective especially in the Southern coast. H... Read More about Bacterial Diversity and Bioremediation Potential of the Highly Contaminated Marine Sediments at El-Max District (Egypt, Mediterranean Sea).

Oasis desert farming selects environment-specific date palm root endophytic communities and cultivable bacteria that promote resistance to drought: Oasis palm endophytes promote drought resistance (2015)
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Cherif, H., Marasco, R., Rolli, E., Ferjani, R., Fusi, M., Soussi, A., Mapelli, F., Blilou, I., Borin, S., Boudabous, A., Cherif, A., Daffonchio, D., & Ouzari, H. (2015). Oasis desert farming selects environment-specific date palm root endophytic communities and cultivable bacteria that promote resistance to drought: Oasis palm endophytes promote drought resistance. Environmental microbiology reports, 7(4), 668-678. https://doi.org/10.1111/1758-2229.12304

Oases are desert‐farming agro‐ecosystems, where date palm (Phoenix dactylifera L.) plays a keystone role in offsetting the effects of drought and maintaining a suitable microclimate for agriculture. At present, abundance, diversity and plant growth p... Read More about Oasis desert farming selects environment-specific date palm root endophytic communities and cultivable bacteria that promote resistance to drought: Oasis palm endophytes promote drought resistance.

Thermal specialization across large geographical scales predicts the resilience of mangrove crab populations to global warming (2014)
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Fusi, M., Giomi, F., Babbini, S., Daffonchio, D., McQuaid, C., Porri, F., & Cannicci, S. (2015). Thermal specialization across large geographical scales predicts the resilience of mangrove crab populations to global warming. Oikos, 124(6), https://doi.org/10.1111/oik.01757

The broad prediction that ectotherms will be more vulnerable to climate change in the tropics than in temperate regions includes assumptions about centre/edge population effects that can only be tested by within species comparisons across wide latitu... Read More about Thermal specialization across large geographical scales predicts the resilience of mangrove crab populations to global warming.

Improved heat tolerance in air drives the recurrent evolution of air-breathing (2014)
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Giomi, F., Fusi, M., Barausse, A., Mostert, B., Portner, H.-O., & Cannicci, S. (2014). Improved heat tolerance in air drives the recurrent evolution of air-breathing. Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 281(1782), 20132927-20132927. https://doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2013.2927

The transition to air-breathing by formerly aquatic species has occurred repeat-edly and independently in fish, crabs and other animal phyla, but the proximatedrivers of this key innovation remain a long-standing puzzle in evolutio-nary biology. Most... Read More about Improved heat tolerance in air drives the recurrent evolution of air-breathing.

Mangrove carbon sink. Do burrowing crabs contribute to sediment carbon storage? Evidence from a Kenyan mangrove system (2013)
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Andreetta, A., Fusi, M., Cameldi, I., Cimò, F., Carnicelli, S., & Cannicci, S. (2014). Mangrove carbon sink. Do burrowing crabs contribute to sediment carbon storage? Evidence from a Kenyan mangrove system. Journal of Sea Research, 85, 524-533. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.seares.2013.08.010

Mangrove ecosystems are acknowledged as a significant carbon reservoir, with a potential key role as carbon sinks. Little however is known on sediment/soil capacity to store organic carbon and the impact of benthic fauna on soil organic carbon (SOC)... Read More about Mangrove carbon sink. Do burrowing crabs contribute to sediment carbon storage? Evidence from a Kenyan mangrove system.

Biogeography of planktonic bacterial communities across the whole Mediterranean Sea (2013)
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Mapelli, F., Varela, M. M., Barbato, M., Alvariño, R., Fusi, M., Álvarez, M., Merlino, G., Daffonchio, D., & Borin, S. (2013). Biogeography of planktonic bacterial communities across the whole Mediterranean Sea. Ocean Science, 9(4), 585-595. https://doi.org/10.5194/os-9-585-2013

Bacterial population distribution in the Mediterranean Sea has been mainly studied by considering small geographical areas or specific phylogenetic groups. The present study is a molecular microbiology investigation aimed to identify the environmenta... Read More about Biogeography of planktonic bacterial communities across the whole Mediterranean Sea.

Plant Growth Promotion Potential Is Equally Represented in Diverse Grapevine Root-Associated Bacterial Communities from Different Biopedoclimatic Environments (2013)
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Marasco, R., Rolli, E., Fusi, M., Cherif, A., Abou-Hadid, A., El-Bahairy, U., Borin, S., Sorlini, C., & Daffonchio, D. (2013). Plant Growth Promotion Potential Is Equally Represented in Diverse Grapevine Root-Associated Bacterial Communities from Different Biopedoclimatic Environments. BioMed Research International, 2013, Article 491091. https://doi.org/10.1155/2013/491091

Plant-associated bacteria provide important services to host plants. Environmental factors such as cultivar type and pedoclimatic conditions contribute to shape their diversity. However, whether these environmental factors may influence the plant gro... Read More about Plant Growth Promotion Potential Is Equally Represented in Diverse Grapevine Root-Associated Bacterial Communities from Different Biopedoclimatic Environments.

Biomonitoring study of an estuarine coastal ecosystem, the Sacca di Goro lagoon, using Ruditapes philippinarum (Mollusca: Bivalvia) (2013)
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Sacchi, A., Mouneyrac, C., Bolognesi, C., Sciutto, A., Roggieri, P., Fusi, M., Beone, G. M., & Capri, E. (2013). Biomonitoring study of an estuarine coastal ecosystem, the Sacca di Goro lagoon, using Ruditapes philippinarum (Mollusca: Bivalvia). Environmental Pollution, 177, 82-89. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envpol.2013.01.042

Coastal lagoons are constantly subjected to releases of chemical pollutants, and so organisms may be exposed to such toxicants. This study investigated through a multivariate approach the physiological status of bivalve Ruditapes philippinarum, farme... Read More about Biomonitoring study of an estuarine coastal ecosystem, the Sacca di Goro lagoon, using Ruditapes philippinarum (Mollusca: Bivalvia).

Physiological effects of temperature and a herbicide mixture on the soft-shell clam Mya arenaria (Mollusca, Bivalvia) (2010)
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Greco, L., Pellerin, J., Capri, E., Garnerot, F., Louis, S., Fournier, M., Sacchi, A., Fusi, M., Lapointe, D., & Couture, P. (2011). Physiological effects of temperature and a herbicide mixture on the soft-shell clam Mya arenaria (Mollusca, Bivalvia). Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry, 30(1), 132-141. https://doi.org/10.1002/etc.359

The aim of the current study was to investigate effects of temperature and a mixture of herbicides on the physiological status of the bivalve Mya arenaria. Bivalves acclimated to two temperatures (7 and 18°C) were exposed for 28 d to 0.01 mg/L of a p... Read More about Physiological effects of temperature and a herbicide mixture on the soft-shell clam Mya arenaria (Mollusca, Bivalvia).

The effect of sewage discharge on the ecosystem engineering activities of two East African fiddler crab species: Consequences for mangrove ecosystem functioning (2010)
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Bartolini, F., Cimò, F., Fusi, M., Dahdouh-Guebas, F., Lopes, G. P., & Cannicci, S. (2011). The effect of sewage discharge on the ecosystem engineering activities of two East African fiddler crab species: Consequences for mangrove ecosystem functioning. Marine Environmental Research, 71(1), 53-61. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marenvres.2010.10.002

A number of studies have suggested that mangrove forests and their faunal components may be pre-adapted to the impact of organic waste discharge, making them possible natural wastewater treatment wetlands. However, the results from recent research ar... Read More about The effect of sewage discharge on the ecosystem engineering activities of two East African fiddler crab species: Consequences for mangrove ecosystem functioning.