Publications by authors named "Sarah Fiorini"
Sound emissions from human activities represent a pervasive environmental stressor. Individual responses in terms of behaviour, physiology or anatomy are well documented but whether they propagate through nested ecological interactions to alter complex communities needs to be better understood. This is even more relevant for freshwater ecosystems that harbour a disproportionate fraction of biodiversity but receive less attention than marine and terrestrial systems.
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- Interactions between invasive species can enhance their ecological impact, yet there is limited research on how these relationships affect aquatic invasive alien species (IAS).
- This study examines the interaction between the predatory round goby fish and the invasive Asian clam, focusing on how habitat complexity, provided by clam shells, influences the goby's feeding behavior compared to a native fish species.
- Results indicate that while habitat complexity affects predation rates, the round goby shows a higher feeding efficiency with increased shell density, suggesting a facilitative interaction that could contribute to its ecological success in invaded environments.
Although irrigation water is frequently assessed for the presence of plant pathogens, large spatial and temporal surveys that provide clues on the diversity and circulation of pathogens are missing. We evaluate the diversity of soft rot (SRP) of the genera and over 2 years in a temperate, mixed-use watershed. The abundance of isolated strains correlates with the agricultural gradient along the watershed with a positive correlation found with temperature, nitrate, and dissolved organic carbon water concentration.
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- Climate change effects, particularly deoxygenation of aquatic environments, significantly impact the ecological dynamics between invasive alien species (IAS) like the round goby and native species such as the bullhead.
- The study found that low oxygen levels lead to higher feeding rates in the invasive species compared to the native fish, which can destabilize ecological balances and exacerbate the decline of native populations.
- Results show that the Relative Total Impact Potential (RTIP) of the invasive fish is notably higher at low oxygen levels, especially during stages of invasion, suggesting a dual threat from both climate stressors and invasive species on native ecosystems.
The emergence of ocean acidification as a significant threat to calcifying organisms in marine ecosystems creates a pressing need to understand the physiological and molecular mechanisms by which calcification is affected by environmental parameters. We report here, for the first time, changes in gene expression induced by variations in pH/pCO in the widespread and abundant coccolithophore . Batch cultures were subjected to increased partial pressure of CO (pCO; i.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFImposex, i.e. the development of additional male sex organs (penis and/or vas deferens), in females of gonochorist marine and freshwater gastropods, is known to be caused by tributyltin (TBT), and it has been widely used as a biomonitoring tool in environmental surveys for TBT pollution assessment.
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