Dissertation topics suggested by the teacher.
Analysis of epibiont communities on specimens of the common sea turtles Caretta caretta recovered along the southern Italian coasts
Collaboration with the Sea Turtle Recovery Center of Policoro (Basilicata) and the WWF Oasis of Policoro (http://www.oasiwwfpolicoro.net/) for the development of on-site theses on sea turtles and associated epibiontic communities.
For information contact federica.costantini@unibo.it
Recent dissertations supervised by the teacher.
First cycle degree programmes dissertations
- Effects of Covid-19 pandemic on marine biodiversity
- Hotspots of Whale-Watching activities in the Northern Part of the Pelagos Sanctuary in 2021
- Infestazioni di ostrica Magallana gigas (Thunberg, 1793) nell'acquacoltura: la problematica dei policheti del genere Polydora (Bosch, 1802)
- Ipotesi di traslocazione del cervo della Mesola (Cervus elaphus italicus) per la formazione di metapopolazioni
- Pattern di strutturazione genetica nelle foreste marine e negli organismi biocostruttori del Mar Mediterraneo: 10 anni di studi
- Strutture autonome di monitoraggio della biodiversità marina: 5 anni dopo
- Symbiodinium sp. associato alla Gorgonia Mediterranea Eunicella singularis: caratterizzazione molecolare e produzione di metaboliti secondari.
- Valutazione della variabilità temporale e della distribuzione dell'Orso Marsicano (Ursus arctos marsicanus Altobello, 1921) nell'Appennino centrale per l'impostazione di un piano per la sua conservazione
Second cycle degree programmes dissertations
- Analisi delle comunità di epibionti su esemplari di tartaruga marina comune Caretta caretta recuperate lungo le coste meridionali italiane
- Assessing cryptic diversity of Mediterranean benthic communities using quantitative image analysis
- Assessing recruitment of epibenthic assemblages using a metabarcoding approach
- Automated image analysis to monitor benthic biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea.
- Characterization of benthic communities along
the Emilia Romagna coasts using environmental DNA
metabarcoding
- Diversity and spatial distribution of Mediterranean gorgonians at Linosa Island
- Does current-driven dispersal explain local benthic diversity in the Mediterranean basin?
- Effectiveness of different Standardized Sampling Structures in the assessment of the marine cryptobenthic communities
- Evaluation of macrofauna diversity in Autonomous reef monitoring structures across the Mediterranean Sea
- Genetic characterization of sea turtle hatchlings (Caretta caretta) (Testudines: Cheloniidae) along the Laganas Bay (Zakynthos, Greece)
- Mapping benthic biodiversity across north western mediterranean marine seascapes using georeferenced environmental data and species distibution predictive model.
- Monitoring of non-indigenous species in aquacultured mollusc Mytilus galloprovincialis Lamark 1819 of the Emilia-Romagna region
- Non-indigenous species (NIS) surveys and community assessment in Ravenna harbor based on short-term deployments of Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS)
- Population genetic of the critically endangered Myliobatis aquila (Linnaeus 1758) across the Gibraltar strait
- Portofino Seaweed Garden: un caso studio su come la comunità degli sport acquatici possa essere utile alla conservazione marina
- Quantifying the biodiversity and spatial variability of Mediterranean hard bottom communities using DNA Metabarcoding
- Spatial and temporal variability of macrofauna associated to farmed mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis, Lamark 1819) with an emphasis on non-indigenous species
- Spatial-temporal variability of benthic assemblages across the Mediterranean Sea using Artificial Substrate Units (ASUs)
- Use of Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) to evaluate spatial and temporal variability of cryptofauna assemblages across the Mediterranean Sea
- Using Autonomous Reef Monitoring Structures (ARMS) and COI metabarcoding to evaluate biogeographic variability in mediterranean benthic communities.