MORO STEFANO

Dottore di ricerca

ciclo: XXXIV



Titolo della tesi: New insights on the ecology and conservation of Mediterranean sharks: the contribution of Citizen Science networks and novel analysis approaches, with a particular attention to the Mediterranean White Shark

It is undoubtful that we are facing a strong biodiversity loss crisis. This crisis is particularly harsh in the marine environment, where over-exploitation, habitat loss, Global Change, and pollution impact natural communities as never before. These drivers of change are particularly effective on apex predators, such as sharks, which are naturally less resilient due to their life-history traits. Given its millenarian history of exploitation and the actual strong anthropogenic pressure, the Mediterranean area is particularly prone to favor the biodiversity loss and this condition is reflected, for example, by the worst elasmobranchs’ conservation status worldwide. However, even if this situation is, for sure, the result of the human pressure on the ecosystems, it is also reinforced by a general lack of ecological data on Mediterranean elasmobranchs, which produces considerable uncertainty in the regional conservation status assessment and poor effectiveness of the conservation measures. Citizen science initiatives are always more common in conservation studies, and they are proving to be a valuable alternative source of information when conventional data are scarce or inconsistent. However, a portion of the scientific community is still skeptical about the usability of opportunistic data due to essential biases affecting them and the absence of robust approaches to correct them. In this context, my Ph.D. thesis has two primary targets: 1) to demonstrate how citizen science initiatives can produce informative ecological insights on marine species, in particular for rare and elusive species (i.e., sharks), also boosting the data collection with different substantially costless strategies. 2) to describe different approaches capable of handling and standardizing opportunistic data to produce robust analysis, also allowing to harmonize them with more conventional data to perform a real integrated modeling approach. These approaches will be illustrated with different case studies. These objectives are explored within the chapters of the thesis through both published papers and paper drafts that still need some refinement before submission to a journal. Despite these two primary targets, other minor goals will be treated in the thesis, such as: - a deep analysis of the elasmobranchs biodiversity in the Mediterranean sea, which investigates the major biodiversity patterns and tries to solve some taxonomic issues. - the use of life-history traits to estimate the rebound potential of Mediterranean sharks and rays. - the demonstration that proper analyses of opportunistic datasets can inform field-work activities in the Mediterranean Sea.

Produzione scientifica

11573/1692694 - 2023 - Mediterranean fish communities are struggling to adapt to global warming. Evidence from the western coast of Italy
Valente, Salvatore; Moro, Stefano; Di Lorenzo, Manfredi; Milisenda, Giacomo; Maiorano, Luigi; Colloca, Francesco - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH (Oxford : Elsevier Ltd.) pp. 1-11 - issn: 1879-0291 - wos: WOS:001081379300001 (0) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85171149885 (0)

11573/1635028 - 2022 - New technologies can support data collection on endangered shark species in the Mediterranean Sea
Bargnesi, F; Moro, S; Leone, A; Giovos, I; Ferretti, F - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES (Inter-Research Science Publishing:Nordbuente 23, D-21385 Oldendorf Germany:011 49 4132 7127, EMAIL: subscription@int-res.com, INTERNET: http://www.int-res.com, Fax: 011 49 4123 8883) pp. 57-76 - issn: 0171-8630 - wos: WOS:000806104000005 (5) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85131666515 (1)

11573/1654206 - 2022 - Seasonal distribution of an opportunistic apex predator (Tursiops truncatus) in marine coastal habitats of the Western Mediterranean Sea
Pace, Daniela Silvia; Panunzi, Greta; Arcangeli, Antonella; Moro, Stefano; Jona Lasinio, Giovanna; Martino, Sara - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE (ausanne : Frontiers Media S.A., 2014-) pp. 1-14 - issn: 2296-7745 - wos: WOS:000862195300001 (2) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85139126362 (3)

11573/1565763 - 2021 - Model-based clustering for estimating cetaceans site-fidelity and abundance
Caruso, Gianmarco; Panunzi, Greta; Mingione, Marco; Alaimo Di Loro, Pierfrancesco; Moro, Stefano; Bompiani, Edoardo; Lanfredi, Caterina; Pace, Daniela Silvia; Tardella, Luca; Jona Lasinio, Giovanna - 04b Atto di convegno in volume
congresso: 13th scientific meeting of the classification and data analysis group, Firenze, September 9-11, 2021 (Firenze)
libro: CLADAG 2021 book of abstracts and short papers - (978-88-5518-340-6)

11573/1568486 - 2021 - Integration of presence-only data from several sources. A case study on dolphins’ spatial distribution
Martino, Sara; Pace, Daniela Silvia; Moro, Stefano; Casoli, Edoardo; Ventura, Daniele; Frachea, Alessandro; Silvestri, Margherita; Arcangeli, Antonella; Giacomini, Giancarlo; Ardizzone, Giandomenico; Jona Lasinio, Giovanna - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: ECOGRAPHY (First or current publisher Copenhagen : Munksgaard International Publishers, 1992- Current or last publisher Oxford : Blackwell) pp. 1-11 - issn: 1600-0587 - wos: WOS:000695551800001 (11) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85114812792 (11)

11573/1402240 - 2020 - MEDLEM database, a data collection on large Elasmobranchs in the Mediterranean and Black seas
Mancusi, Cecilia; Baino, Romano; Fortuna, Caterina; De Sola, Luis Gil; Morey, Gabriel; Bradai, Mohamed Nejmeddine; Kallianotis, Argyrios; Soldo, Alen; Hemida, Farid; Saad, Adib Ali; Dimech, Mark; Peristeraki, Panagiota; Bariche, Michel; Clò, Simona; De Sabata, Eleonora; Castellano, Laura; Garibaldi, Fulvio; Lanteri, Luca; Tinti, Fausto; Pais, Antonio; Sperone, Emilio; Micarelli, Primo; Poisson, Francois; Sion, Letizia; Carlucci, Roberto; Cebrian-Menchero, Daniel; Séret, Bernard; Ferretti, Francesco; El-Far, Alaa; Saygu, Ismet; Shakman, Esmail A.; Bartoli, Alex; Guallart, Javier; Damalas, Dimitrios; Megalofonou, Persefoni; Vacchi, Marino; Bottaro, Massimiliano; Notarbartolo Di Sciara, Giuseppe; Follesa, Maria Cristina; Cannas, Rita; Kabasakal, Hakan; Zava, Bruno; Cavlan, Graziella; Jung, Armelle; Abudaya, Mohammed; Kolitari, Jerina; Barash, Adi; Joksimovic, Aleksandar; Marčeta, Bojan; Gonzalez Vilas, Luis; Tiralongo, Francesco; Giovos, Ioannis; Bargnesi, Filippo; Lelli, Stefano; Barone, Monica; Moro, Stefano; Mazzoldi, Carlotta; Charis, Charilaou; Abella, Alvaro Juan; Serena, Fabrizio - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: MEDITERRANEAN MARINE SCIENCE (Athens National Centre for Marine Research) pp. 276-288 - issn: 1791-6763 - wos: WOS:000563186800002 (31) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85091850370 (33)

11573/1402232 - 2020 - Abundance and distribution of the white shark in the Mediterranean Sea
Moro, Stefano; Jona-Lasinio, Giovanna; Block, Barbara; Micheli, Fiorenza; De Leo, Giulio; Serena, Fabrizio; Bottaro, Massimiliano; Scacco, Umberto; Ferretti, Francesco - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: FISH AND FISHERIES (Oxford : Blackwell Science, 2000-) pp. 338-349 - issn: 1467-2960 - wos: WOS:000504574900001 (27) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85077362709 (31)

11573/1492288 - 2020 - Species diversity, taxonomy and distribution of Chondrichthyes in the Mediterranean and Black Sea
Serena, F.; Abella, A. J.; Bargnesi, F.; Barone, M.; Colloca, F.; Ferretti, F.; Fiorentino, F.; Jenrette, J.; Moro, S. - 01a Articolo in rivista
rivista: THE EUROPEAN ZOOLOGICAL JOURNAL (London : Taylor & Francis) pp. 497-536 - issn: 2475-0263 - wos: WOS:000589651700001 (62) - scopus: 2-s2.0-85094677716 (71)

11573/1402259 - 2019 - A world platform to support data collection on endangered shark species in the Mediterranean Sea
Bargnesi, Filippo; Moro, Stefano; Leone, Agostino; Ferretti, Francesco - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: EEA 2019 - European Elasmobranch Association 23rd Annual Conference (Rende, Italy)
libro: Book of Abstracts - ()

11573/1402275 - 2019 - ABUNDANCE AND DISTRIBUTION OF THE WHITE SHARK IN THE MEDITERRANEAN SEA
Moro, Stefano; Jona Lasinio, Giovanna; Block, Barbara; Micheli, Fiorenza; De Leo, Giulio; Serena, Fabrizio; Bottaro, Massimiliano; Scacco, Umberto; Ferretti, Francesco - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: EEA 2019 - European Elasmobranch Association 23th Annual Conference (Rende, Italy)
libro: Book of Abstract - ()

11573/1402269 - 2019 - ANALYZING OPPORTUNISTIC SIGHTINGS WITH POINT PROCESSES MODELS: THE MEDITERRANEAN WHITE SHARK AS A CASE STUDY
Moro, Stefano; Jona Lasinio, Giovanna; Colloca, Francesco; Mastrantonio, Gianluca; Serena, Fabrizio; Bargnesi, Filippo; Ferretti, Francesco - 04f Poster
congresso: EEA 2019 - European Elasmobranchs Association 23th Annual Conference (Rende, Italy)
libro: EEA 2019 - European Elasmobranchs Association 23th Annual Conference - ()

11573/1402298 - 2018 - New opportunities from Citizen Science for conservation assessments of the Mediterranean shark populations
Bargnesi, Filippo; Cerrano, Carlo; Serena, Fabrizio; Moro, Stefano; Ferretti, Francesco - 04d Abstract in atti di convegno
congresso: 53rd European Marine Biology Symposium (Ostend, Belgium)
libro: Book of Abstract - ()

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