Letizia Marsili
University of Siena
139 Papers
744 Citations
Letizia Marsili is an academic researcher from University of Siena. The author has contributed to research in topics: Biology & Stenella coeruleoalba. The author has an hindex of 35, co-authored 118 publications.
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Cetacean strandings in Italy: an unusual mortality event along the Tyrrhenian Sea coast in 2013.
Cristina Casalone,Sandro Mazzariol,Alessandra Pautasso,Giovanni Di Guardo,Fabio Di Nocera,Giuseppe Lucifora,Ciriaco Ligios,Alessia Franco,Gianluca Fichi,Cristiano Cocumelli,A. Cersini,Annalisa Guercio,Roberto Puleio,Maria Goria,Michela Podestà,Letizia Marsili,Gianni Pavan,Antonio Pintore,Esterina De Carlo,Claudia Eleni,Santo Caracappa +20 more
TL;DR: Based on post-mortem analyses carried out according to body condition on 66 dolphins, dolphin morbillivirus was deemed the most likely cause, although other infectious agents or environmental factors may also have contributed to this recent mortality event.
Monitoring Effectiveness of an Operational Project on Two Threatened Landbirds: Applying a Before–After Threat Analysis and Threat Reduction Assessment
TL;DR: In this article , two new approaches (TAN = Threat Analysis and TRA = Threat Reduction Assessment) aimed at assessing the effectiveness of conservation actions on two threatened beach-nesting landbird species, the Kentish plover (Charadrius alexandrinus) and the Little Ringed Plover (C. dubius), breeding along a coastal beach of central Italy.
Are baleen whales exposed to the threat of microplastics? A case study of the Mediterranean fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus).
Maria Cristina Fossi,Cristina Panti,Cristiana Guerranti,D. Coppola,Matteo Giannetti,Letizia Marsili,Roberta Minutoli +6 more
TL;DR: The results of this study represent the first warning of this emerging threat to baleen whales as high concentrations of phthalates were detected in the neustonic/planktonic samples.
PCB levels in bird blood and relationship to MFO responses
TL;DR: Evaluation of PCBs in blood can be proposed as a tool to predict induction of liver monooxygenases to evaluate chemical stress in birds and find the principal congeners found were the most persistent ones.