Roberto Crosti
Murdoch University
32 Papers
93 Citations
Roberto Crosti is an academic researcher from Murdoch University. The author has contributed to research in topics: Mediterranean sea & Mediterranean climate. The author has an hindex of 15, co-authored 27 publications.
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Papers
Floating macrolitter leaked from Europe into the ocean
Daniel González-Fernández,Andrés Cózar,Georg Hanke,Josué Viejo,Carmen Morales-Caselles,Rigers Bakiu,Damià Barceló,Damià Barceló,Filipa Bessa,Antoine Bruge,María del Carmen Cabrera,Javier Castro-Jiménez,Javier Castro-Jiménez,Mel Constant,Roberto Crosti,Yuri Galletti,Ahmet E. Kideys,Nino Machitadze,Joana Pereira de Brito,Maria Pogojeva,Nuno Ratola,Júlia Rigueira,Elisa Rojo-Nieto,Oksana Savenko,Rosanna I. Schöneich-Argent,Rosanna I. Schöneich-Argent,Grzegorz Siedlewicz,Giuseppe Suaria,Myrto Tourgeli +28 more
- 10 Jun 2021
TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a database of riverine floating macrolitter across Europe to estimate that between 307 and 925 million litter items are released annually from Europe into the ocean.
Post-fire germination: The effect of smoke on seeds of selected species from the central Mediterranean basin
TL;DR: An understanding of the importance of fire in relation to other disturbances in the vegetation dynamics in the Mediterranean basin needs to be clarified by further detailed studies of the effect of heat and smoke products on seed germination of Mediterranean species.
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Amount, composition, and spatial distribution of floating macro litter along fixed trans-border transects in the Mediterranean basin
Antonella Arcangeli,Ilaria Campana,Dario Angeletti,Fabrizio Atzori,M. Azzolin,Lara Carosso,Valentina Di Miccoli,Antonio Giacoletti,Martina Gregorietti,C. Luperini,Miriam Paraboschi,G. Pellegrino,Martina Ramazio,Gianluca Sarà,Roberto Crosti +14 more
TL;DR: Spatial analysis suggested an almost homogeneous distribution of litter without evident regular aggregation zones, and a synoptic estimation of the amount, composition, and distribution of floating macro-litter in the Mediterranean was given.
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Use of a weed risk assessment for the Mediterranean region of Central Italy to prevent loss of functionality and biodiversity in agro-ecosystems
TL;DR: The effectiveness of adapting the Australian and New Zealand Weed Risk Assessment to the geographic, climatic and weed management context of Italy was assessed and the predictive accuracy of the WRA for determining invasive from non-invasive species was corroborated.
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Cetacean response to summer maritime traffic in the Western Mediterranean Sea
Ilaria Campana,Roberto Crosti,Dario Angeletti,Lara Carosso,Léa David,Nathalie Di-Méglio,A. Moulins,Massimiliano Rosso,Paola Tepsich,Antonella Arcangeli +9 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the relationship between vessels presence and cetacean sightings in the high sea areas of the Western Mediterranean Sea region and found that all the species, except bottlenose dolphin, were generally observed in locations with lower vessel abundance.
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