Mario Francesco Tantillo

Fellow

The focusses of my research activity is on studying the effect of extreme weather events such as marine heat waves, temperature spikes, and salinity variations on pre-coralligenous and coralligenous communities. In addition, I investigate the cascading effects that the action of these stressors can exert, influencing for example the expansion of the distribution ranges of some species. My Phd project carries out manipulative and correlative experiments in the field and the laboratory using ecophysiological techniques including innovative methods to measuring organisms and communities responses through the use of key functional and life history traits.
Keywords: Shallow benthic community, Habitat former, Extreme climate events

Publications

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2026Palmas, F., Gentili, A., Cabiddu, S., Pasquini, V., Addis, P., Sarà, G., Bosch-Belmar, M. Tantillo, M. F. & Pusceddu, A. (2026). Current and future thermal habitat suitability of the European clam Ruditapes decussatus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Mediterranean coastal lagoons. Marine Environmental Research, 108139.DownloadSarà G., Bosch-Belmar M., Tantillo M. F.
2026Mancuso, F. P., Bosch‐Belmar, M., Tantillo, M. F., Russi, M., Piermattei, V., Marcelli, M., & Sarà, G. (2026). Endemic Mediterranean seagrasses poised to survive climate change challenges. Ecological Applications, 36(3), e70235.DownloadSarà G., Bosch-Belmar M., Mancuso P., Tantillo M. F., Russi M.
2026La Manna, G., Bolinesi, F., Bosch-Belmar, M., Colletti, A., Di Marino, C., Fabietti, Y., Fraschetti, S., Licciardi, L., Mancuso, F. P., Mangoni, O., Morello, G., Musumeci, S. M. S., Padedda, B. M., Pansini, A., Piazzi, L., Pinna, F., Pishchalkovska, M., Puccini, A., Sarà, G., Stipcich, P., Tantillo, M. F., & Ceccherelli, G. (2026). Influence of red gorgonian (Paramuricea clavata) forests on coralligenous community structure across different regions, seasons, thermal environment, and water trophic state. Coral Reefs, 1–16.DownloadSarà G., Bosch-Belmar M., Mancuso P., Morello G., Fabietti Y., Pishchalkovska M., Tantillo M. F.
2024Schubert, N., Tuya, F., Peña, V., Horta, P.A., Salazar, V.W., Neves, P., Ribeiro, C., Otero-Ferrer, F., Espino, F., Schoenrock, K., Ragazzola, F., Olivé, I., Giaccone, T., Nannini, M., Mangano, M.C., Sará, G., Mancuso, F.P., Tantillo, M.F., Bosch-Belmar, M., Martin, S., Le Gall, L., Santos, R., Silva, J. (2024). “Pink power”—the importance of coralline algal beds in the oceanic carbon cycle. Nature Communications 15 (1), 8282.DownloadSarà G., Bosch-Belmar M., Tantillo M. F., Mancuso P., Mangano M. C.
2024Piazzolla, D., Scanu, S., Mancuso, F.P., Bosch-Belmar, M., Bonamano, S., Madonia, A., Scagnoli, E., Tantillo, M.F., Russi, M., Savini, A., Fersini, G., Sarà, G., Coppini, G., Marcelli, M., Piermattei, V. (2024). An integrated approach for the benthic habitat mapping based on innovative surveying technologies and ecosystem functioning measurements. Scientific Reports 14 (1), 5888DownloadSarà G., Bosch-Belmar M., Tantillo M. F., Mancuso P., Russi M.
2024Marchessaux, G., Gjoni, V., Tantillo, M.F., Bejean, T., Sarà, G. (2024). The expansion of the Atlantic–Mediterranean ghost crab Ocypode cursor (Linnaeus, 1758): Distribution, environmental niches and future perspectives. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems 34 (3), e4119.DownloadSarà G., Marchessaux G., Tantillo M. F.
2024Gjoni, V., Marchessaux, G., Glazier, D. S., Wesner, J. S., Bosch-Belmar, M., Mancuso, F. P., Tantillo, M. F., Marsiglia, N. & Sarà, G. (2024). Metabolic scaling of an invasive mussel depends on temperature and chemical cues from an invasive predator. Biology Letters, 20(6), 20240066.DownloadSarà G., Bosch-Belmar M., Tantillo M. F., Marsiglia N., Mancuso P.
2024Giacoletti, A., Bosch-Belmar, M., Mangano, M.C., Tantillo, M.F., Sarà, G. & Milisenda, G. (2024). Predicting the effect of fouling organisms and climate change on integrated shellfish aquaculture. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 201:116167.DownloadSarà G., Bosch-Belmar M., Giacoletti A., Tantillo M. F., Mangano M. C.
2024Bosch-Belmar, M., Tantillo, M. F., & Sarà, G. (2024). Impacts of increasing temperature due to global warming on key habitat-forming species in the Mediterranean Sea: unveiling negative biotic interactions. Global Ecology and Conservation, e02844.DownloadSarà G., Bosch-Belmar M., Tantillo M. F.
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