| Mass mortality in Northwestern Mediterranean rocky benthic communities: effects of the 2003 heat wave J Garrabou, R Coma, N Bensoussan, M Bally, P Chevaldonné, M Cigliano, ... Global Change Biology 15 (5), 1090-1103, 2009 | 1223 | 2009 |
| A catastrophic mass‐mortality episode of gorgonians and other organisms in the Ligurian Sea (North‐western Mediterranean), summer 1999 C Cerrano, G Bavestrello, CN Bianchi, R Cattaneo‐Vietti, S Bava, ... Ecology letters 3 (4), 284-293, 2000 | 766 | 2000 |
| Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea J Garrabou, D Gómez‐Gras, A Medrano, C Cerrano, M Ponti, R Schlegel, ... Global Change Biology 28 (19), 5708-5725, 2022 | 327 | 2022 |
| Vibrio infections triggering mass mortality events in a warming Mediterranean Sea L Vezzulli, M Previati, C Pruzzo, A Marchese, DG Bourne, C Cerrano, ... Environmental microbiology 12 (7), 2007-2019, 2010 | 301 | 2010 |
| Gold coral (Savalia savaglia) and gorgonian forests enhance benthic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the mesophotic zone C Cerrano, R Danovaro, C Gambi, A Pusceddu, A Riva, S Schiaparelli Biodiversity and Conservation 19, 153-167, 2010 | 242 | 2010 |
| Damage by fishing activities to the Gorgonian coral Paramuricea clavata in the Ligurian Sea G Bavestrello, C Cerrano, D Zanzi, R Cattaneo‐Vietti Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 7 (3), 253-262, 1997 | 241 | 1997 |
| The sponge microbiome project L Moitinho-Silva, S Nielsen, A Amir, A Gonzalez, GL Ackermann, ... Gigascience 6 (10), gix077, 2017 | 216 | 2017 |
| Mediterranean bioconstructions along the Italian coast G Ingrosso, M Abbiati, F Badalamenti, G Bavestrello, G Belmonte, ... Advances in marine biology 79, 61-136, 2018 | 212 | 2018 |
| Hard bottoms. In: Mediterranean marine benthos: a manual of methods for its sampling and study C Bianchi, R Pronzato, R Cattaneo-Vietti, L Benedetti Cecchi, C Morri, ... Biologia Marina Mediterranea 11, 185-216, 2003 | 178 | 2003 |
| Collaborative database to track mass mortality events in the Mediterranean Sea J Garrabou, D Gómez-Gras, JB Ledoux, C Linares, N Bensoussan, ... Frontiers in Marine Science 6, 707, 2019 | 177 | 2019 |
| Scuba diving tourism systems and sustainability: Perceptions by the scuba diving industry in two Marine Protected Areas S Lucrezi, M Milanese, V Markantonatou, C Cerrano, A Sara, M Palma, ... Tourism Management 59, 385-403, 2017 | 168 | 2017 |
| The temperature-signaling cascade in sponges involves a heat-gated cation channel, abscisic acid, and cyclic ADP-ribose E Zocchi, A Carpaneto, C Cerrano, G Bavestrello, M Giovine, S Bruzzone, ... Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences 98 (26), 14859-14864, 2001 | 166 | 2001 |
| Ecological Shifts in Mediterranean Coralligenous Assemblages Related to Gorgonian Forest Loss M Ponti, RA Perlini, V Ventra, D Grech, M Abbiati, C Cerrano PLoS ONE 9 (7), e102782., 2014 | 149 | 2014 |
| Gorgonian population recovery after a mass mortality event C Cerrano, A Arillo, F Azzini, B Calcinai, L Castellano, C Muti, L Valisano, ... Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 15 (2), 147-157, 2005 | 144 | 2005 |
| 16SrDNA pyrosequencing of the Mediterranean gorgonian Paramuricea clavata reveals a link among alterations in bacterial holobiont members, anthropogenic influence and disease … L Vezzulli, E Pezzati, C Huete-Stauffer, C Pruzzo, C Cerrano PloS one 8 (6), e67745, 2013 | 134 | 2013 |
| Bio-mineralogy as a structuring factor for marine epibenthic communities G Bavestrello, CN Bianchi, B Calcinai, R Cattaneo-Vietti, C Cerrano, ... Marine Ecology Progress Series 193, 241-249, 2000 | 130 | 2000 |
| Optical fibres in an Antarctic sponge R Cattaneo-Vietti, G Bavestrello, C Cerrano, M Sara, U Benatti, M Giovine, ... Nature 383 (6599), 397-398, 1996 | 129 | 1996 |
| Multiple impacts of microplastics can threaten marine habitat-forming species C Corinaldesi, S Canensi, A Dell’Anno, M Tangherlini, I Di Capua, ... Communications Biology 4 (1), 431, 2021 | 121 | 2021 |
| Parasitic diatoms inside Antarctic sponges G Bavestrello, A Arillo, B Calcinai, R Cattaneo-Vietti, C Cerrano, E Gaino, ... The Biological Bulletin 198 (1), 29-33, 2000 | 112 | 2000 |
| Diving for science - science for diving: volunteer scuba divers support science and conservation in the Mediterranean Sea C Cerrano, M Milanese, M Ponti AQUATIC CONSERVATION: MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS, 2017 | 111 | 2017 |
Giorgio BavestrelloProfessor of Zoology, DiSTAV, Università di Genova, Italy; ConISMa ItalyPatvirtintas el. paštas unige.it