SIMONA IANNUCCI

About

My research interest is the management and conservation of marine coastal ecosystems. During my PhD, I focussed on ecosystem engineer species by investigating their role in structuring and defining benthic communities also from a functional point of view. I have also worked on trophic ecology, using trophic markers such as stable isotope and fatty acid analysis to assess the response of benthic organisms to various stressors (e.g. climate change and antrhopogenic impacts).

Employment

• National Institute of Oceanography and Applied Geophysics Post-doctoral fellowship
  2024 - Present

Education

• University of Trieste PhD
  2020 - 2024
• University of Palermo Master's Degree in Marine Biology
  2016 - 2019
• University of Palermo Bachelor's Degree in Environmental and Natural Sciences
  2013 - 2016

Projects & Funding

Projects & funding information is unavailable.

Publications (4)

• Field performance of innovative wood protection treatments on early successional macrofouling communities
  Marine Environmental Research 2026 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2026.108097
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• MAF biodiversity measurements: Species, ecosystem, and genetic
  Open Research Europe 2025 DOI: 10.12688/openreseurope.20835.1
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• Can the Empty Shells of Pinna nobilis Maintain the Ecological Role of the Species? A Structural and Functional Analysis of the Associated Mollusc Fauna
  Diversity 2023 DOI: 10.3390/d15090956
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• Coexisting with the alien: Evidence for environmental control on trophic interactions between a native (Atherina boyeri) and a non-indigenous fish species (Gambusia holbrooki) in a Mediterranean coastal ecosystem
  Frontiers in Ecology and Evolution 2022 DOI: 10.3389/fevo.2022.958467
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