People:
Carlo Cerrano


Carlo Cerrano

Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
Università Politecnica delle Marche  (Italy)
&  Stazione Zoologica di Napoli Anton Dohrn Fano Marine Center






Research interests

Mesophotic ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea

Publications

  Please note that only publications relevant to mesophotic reefs are indexed.

Low connectivity and declining genetic variability along a depth gradient in Corallium rubrum populations | article
Costantini F, Costantini F, Rossi S, Pintus E, Cerrano C, Gili J-M, Abbiati M (2011)
Coral Reefs 30:991-1003

Coral assemblage off the Calabrian Coast (South Italy) with new observations on living colonies of Antipathes dichotoma | article
Bo M, Bavestrello G, Canese S, Giusti M, Angiolillo M, Cerrano C, Salvati E, Greco S (2011)
Ital J Zool 78:231-242

Gold coral (Savalia savaglia) and gorgonian forests enhance benthic biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in the mesophotic zone | article
Cerrano C, Danovaro R, Gambi C, Pusceddu A, Riva A, Schiaparelli S (2010)
Biodivers Conserv 19:153-167

Reproductive biology of Parazoanthus axinellae (Schmidt, 1862) and Savalia savaglia (Bertoloni, 1819) (Cnidaria, Zoantharia) from the NW Mediterran... | article
Previati M, Palma M, Bavestrello G, Falugi C, Cerrano C (2010)
Mar Ecol 31:555-565

Temporal variability of sedimentation rates and mobile fauna inside and outside a gorgonian garden | article
Valisano L, Notari F, Mori M, Cerrano C (2016)
Mar Ecol 37:1303-1314

Ecological shifts in Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages related to gorgonian forest loss | article
Ponti M, Perlini RA, Ventra V, Grech D, Abbiati M, Cerrano C (2014)
PLoS ONE 9:e102782

An updated overview of the geographic and bathymetric distribution of Savalia savaglia | article
Giusti M, Cerrano C, Angiolillo M, Tunesi L, Canese S (2015)
Mediterr Mar Sci 16:128-135

The role of gorgonians on the diversity of vagile benthic fauna in Mediterranean rocky habitats | article
Ponti M, Grech D, Mori M, Perlini RA, Ventra V, Panzalis PA, Cerrano C (2016)
Mar Biol 163:120

Development of long-term primary cell aggregates from Mediterranean octocorals | article
Huete-Stauffer C, Valisano L, Gaino E, Vezzulli L, Cerrano C (2015)
In Vitro Cell Dev Biol 51:815-826

Black coral (Anthozoa, Antipatharia) forest near the western Pontine Islands (Tyrrhenian Sea) | article
Ingrassia M, Macelloni L, Bosman A, Chiocci F, Cerrano C, Martorelli E (2016)
Marine Biodiversity 46:285-290

The coral assemblages of an off-shore deep Mediterranean rocky bank (NW Sicily, Italy) | article
Bo M, Cerrano C, Canese S, Salvati E, Angiolillo M, Santangelo G, Bavestrello G (2014)
Mar Ecol 35:332-342

Diversity of Porifera in the Mediterranean coralligenous accretions, with description of a new species | article
Bertolino M, Cerrano C, Bavestrello G, Carella M, Pansini M, Calcinai B (2013)
Zookeys 2013:1-37

The understorey of gorgonian forests in mesophotic temperate reefs | article
Ponti M, Turicchia E, Ferro F, Cerrano C, Abbiati M (2018)
Aquat Conserv: Mar Freshw Ecosyst 28:1153-1166

Mediterranean Sea shelters for the gold coral Savalia savaglia (Bertoloni, 1819): An assessment of potential distribution of a rare parasitic species | article
Mantas TP, Varotti C, Roveta C, Palma M, Innocenti C, Giusti M, Benabdi M, Trainito E, Mačić V, Gambi MC, Cerrano C (2022)
Mar Environ Res 179:105686

Changes in coral forest microbiomes predict the impact of marine heatwaves on habitat-forming species down to mesophotic depths | article
Corinaldesi C, Varrella S, Tangherlini M, Dell'Anno A, Canensi S, Cerrano C, Danovaro R (2022)
Science of The Total Environment 823:153701

Distribution, ecology and morphology of Lytocarpia myriophyllum (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa), a Mediterranean Sea habitat former to protect | article
Di Camillo CG, Boero F, Gravili C, Previati M, Torsani F, Cerrano C (2013)
Biodivers Conserv 22:773-87

Distribution and phenotypic variability of the Mediterranean gorgonian Paramuricea macrospina (Cnidaria: Octocorallia) | article
Pica D, Calcinai B, Poliseno A, Trainito E, Cerrano C (2018)
Eur Zool J 85:392-408

Stability of the sponge assemblage of Mediterranean coralligenous concretions along a millennial time span | article
Bertolino M, Calcinai B, Cattaneo‐Vietti R, Cerrano C, Lafratta A, Pansini M, Pica D, Bavestrello G (2014)
Mar Ecol 35:149-158

Genome-wide SNPs data provides new insights into the population structure of the Atlantic-Mediterranean gold coral Savalia savaglia (Zoantharia: Pa... | article
Poliseno A, Terzin M, Costantini F, Trainito E, Mačić V, Boavida J, Perez T, Abbiati M, Cerrano C, Reimer JD (2022)
Ecological Genetics and Genomics 25:100135

Paramuricea clavata (Anthozoa, Octocorallia) loss in the Marine Protected Area of Tavolara (Sardinia, Italy) due to a mass mortality event | article
Huete‐Stauffer C, Vielmini I, Palma M, Navone A, Panzalis P, Vezzulli L, Misic C, Cerrano C. (2011)
Mar Ecol 32:107-116

Comparison between the sponge fauna living outside and inside the coralligenous bioconstruction. A quantitative approach | article
Calcinai B, Bertolino M, Bavestrello G, Montori S, Mori M, Pica D, Valisano L, Cerrano C. (2015)
Mediterr Mar Sci 16:413-418

Gorgonian population recovery after a mass mortality event | article
Cerrano C, Arillo A, Azzini F, Calcinai B, Castellano L, Muti C, Valisano L, Zega G, Bavestrello G. (2005)
Aquat Conserv: Mar Freshw Ecosyst 15:147-157

Characterization of North–Western Mediterranean coralligenous assemblages by video surveys and evaluation of their structural complexity | article
Valisano L, Palma M, Pantaleo U, Calcinai B, Cerrano C. (2019)
Mar Pollut Bull 148:134-148

Do colonies of Lytocarpia myriophyllum, L. 1758 (Cnidaria, Hydrozoa) affect the biochemical composition and the meiofaunal diversity of surrounding... | article
Cerrano C, Bianchelli S, Di Camillo CG, Torsani F, Pusceddu A (2015)
Chem Ecol 31:1-21

SfM-based method to assess gorgonian forests (Paramuricea clavata (Cnidaria, Octocorallia)) | article
Palma M, Rivas Casado M, Pantaleo U, Pavoni G, Pica D, Cerrano C (2018)
Remote Sens 10:1154

Temperate mesophotic ecosystems: gaps and perspectives of an emerging conservation challenge for the Mediterranean Sea | review
Cerrano C, Bastari A, Calcinai B, Di Camillo C, Pica D, Puce S, Valisano L, Torsani F (2019)
Eur Zool J 86:370-388

Updating the current knowledge on the relationships between Haplosyllis chamaeleon Laubier, 1960 (Annelida, Syllidae) and Paramuricea clavata (Riss... | article
Pola L, Calcinai B, Pica D, Di Camillo CG, Martin D, Cerrano C (2020)
Marine Biodiversity 50:105

Mesophotic zone as buffer for biodiversity protection: A promising opportunity to enhance MPA effectiveness | article
Mantas TP, Roveta C, Calcinai B, Campanini C, Coppari M, Falco P, Di Camillo CG, Garrabou J, Lee MC, Memmola F, Cerrano C. (2024)
Marine Environmental Research 201:106676

Research keywords
Research platform experience
  SCUBA (open-circuit or unspecified)
Research summary (from publications)