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Federica Costantini


Federica Costantini

Department of Biology, Geology and Environment
University of Bologna  (Italy)







Research interests
Publications

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

Population genetic structure of Corallium rubrum in the Mediterranean Sea: diversity, phylogeography, and bathymetric patterns | chapter
Costantini F, Costantini F, Aurelle D, Ledoux J, Abbiati M (2016)
in: The Cnidaria, Past, Present and Future () by Goffredo S, Dubinsky Z

Exploring the genetic diversity and the population structure of the mesophotic Paramuricea macrospina in the Menorca Channel | article
Paletta MG, JordiGrinyó J, Gili JM, Díaz D, Muñoz A, Garrabou J, Abbiati M, Ledoux JB, Costantini F, Costantini F (2019)
Estuar Coast Shelf Sci 219:444-452

Why do mesophotic coral ecosystems have to be protected? | article
Soares MO, Araújo JT, Ferreira SMC, Santos BA, Boavida JRH, Costantini F, Costantini F, Rossi S (2020)
Science of The Total Environment

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

Into the depth of population genetics: pattern of structuring in mesophotic red coral populations | article
Costantini F, Costantini F, Abbiati M (2016)
Coral Reefs 35:39-52

Limited genetic connectivity between gorgonian morphotypes along a depth gradient | article
Costantini F, Costantini F, Gori A, Lopez-González P, Bramanti L, Rossi S, Gili JM, Abbiati M (2016)
PLoS ONE 11:e0160678

Remotely operated vehicles (ROVs) as powerful tools for the evaluation of the conservation status of deep red coral banks | article
Canese S, Cattaneo-vietti R, Cau A, Corriero G, Costantini F, Giusti M, Priori C, Salvati E, Sandulli R, Santangelo G (2015)
Proc 2nd Mediterr Sympo Conserv Corall
Quantifying Spatial Genetic Structuring in Mesophotic Populations of the Precious Coral Corallium rubrum | article
Costantini F, Costantini F, Carlesi L, Abbiati M (2013)
PLoS ONE 8:e61546

Population genomic structure of the black coral Antipathella subpinnata in Mediterranean vulnerable marine ecosystems | article
Terzin M, Paletta MG, Matterson K, Coppari M, Bavestrello G, Abbiati M, Bo M, Costantini F, Costantini F (2021)
Coral Reefs 40:751–766

Key questions for research and conservation of mesophotic coral ecosystems and temperate mesophotic ecosystems | chapter
Turner JA, Andradi-Brown DA, Gori A, Bongaerts P, Burdett HL, Ferrier-Pagès C, Voolstra CR, Weinstein DK, Bridge TCL, Costantini F, Gress E, Laverick J, Loya Y, Goodbody-Gringley G, Rossi S, Taylor ML, Viladrich N, Voss JD, Williams J, Woodall LC, Eyal G (2019)
in: Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems () by Loya Y, Puglise KA, Bridge TCL
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

Research keywords
Research platform experience
  SCUBA (open-circuit or unspecified)
  Remotely Operated Vehicle (ROV)
Research summary (from publications)