Articoli scientifici
- PDF Fontanesi, E, Pedrazzini, A., and Ascheri, D (2026) “First observation of fin whale (Balaenoptera physalus) courtship behaviour in the Mediterranean sea.” Hystrix the Italian Journal of Mammalogy 37.1.
- PDF Giussani, V., Ottonello, D., Albanese, S., Caracciolo, D., Garibaldi, F., Bonifai, M.,Ascheri,D., Fontanesi, E., & Castellano, L. (2026). Liguria: new nesting area for Caretta caretta (LINNAEUS, 1758). Biologia Marina Mediterranea, 30(1), 152-154.
- PDF (2025). Pelagic seabirds in coastal waters of the Western Ligurian Sea: occurrence and seasonality- Avocetta
- PDF. Jahoda, M., Zanardelli, M., Dhermain, F., Alessi, J., Armonio, F., Ballardini, M., Fontanesi, E … & Panigada, S. (2025). Codamozza‐Fluker: The Compelling Case of a Flukeless Fin Whale Traveling Throughout the Mediterranean Sea and the Need for Basin‐Wide Conservation Efforts. Ecology and Evolution, 15(5), e71313.
- PDF. Bellingeri, M., Nebuloni, A., La Manna, G., Akkaya, A., Alessi, J., Arcangeli, A., … & Gnone, G. (2025). Investigating the presence of different bottlenose dolphin ecotypes in the Mediterranean Sea. Scientific Reports, 15(1), 5526.
- PDF. Zucca, L. F., Ascheri, D., Fontanesi, E., Pedrazzini, A. C., & Carta, E. (2025). First observation of Lesser Crested Tern (Thalasseus bengalensis) in Liguria, northwest Italy. BELS-Bulletin of Enviromental and Life Sciences, 7.
- PDF Elena, F., Ascheri, D., Giulia, B.C. Salvioli, F., Mcginty, N. (2024). Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) habitat partitioning in relation to age classes in the northwest Mediterranean Sea. Marine Biology 171, 137.
- PDF Mattioda, V.; Giorda, F.; Consales, G.; Testori, C.; Zoppi, S.; Goria, M.; Crescio, M.I.; Serracca, L.; Varello, K.; Carta, V.; Fontanesi, E., et al. Anthropic
Pressure on Cetaceans Stranded Along the Ligurian CoastWithin the Pelagos Sanctuary: A Case Series. Animals 2024, 14, 3207. - PDF Vargas-Castro, I., Giorda, F., Mattioda, V., Goria, M., Serracca, L., Varello, K., Fontanesi, E., … & Peletto, S. (2024). Herpesvirus surveillance in stranded striped dolphins (Stenella coeruleoalba) and bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) from Italy with emphasis on neuropathological characterization. Plos one, 19(10), e0311767.
- PDF Thompson, K. F., Gordon, J., Webber, T., Zuriel, Y., Kobo, K., Tchernov, D., Ascheri D., Fontanesi E., Scheinin, A. P. (2024). Threatened cetaceans off the coast of Israel and long‐range movement of a sperm whale. Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 34(5), e4155.
- PDF Ascheri, D., Fontanesi, E., Marsili, L., Berio, E., Garibaldi, F., Goria, M., … & Grattarola, C. (2024). Post-mortem examination on a striped dolphin (Stenella coeruleoalba) reveals a potential fatal interaction with bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in Italian waters. Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, 104, e4.
- PDF Grattarola, C., Minoia, L., Giorda, F., Consales, G., Capanni, F., Ceciarini, I., Ascheri, D., … & Marsili, L. (2023). Health Status of Stranded Common Bottlenose Dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and Contamination by Immunotoxic Pollutants: A Threat to the Pelagos Sanctuary—Western Mediterranean Sea. Diversity, 15(4), 569.
- PDF Romani-Cremaschi, U., Zoppi, S., Mattioda, V., Audino, T., Marsili, L., Varello, K., Ascheri, D., … & Giorda, F. (2023). Morganella morganii septicemia and concurrent renal crassicaudiasis in a Cuvier’s beaked whale (Ziphius cavirostris) stranded in Italy. FRONTIERS IN MARINE SCIENCE, 9.
- PDF Ascheri, D., & Fontanesi, E. (2023). New records of sperm whale social units in the Pelagos Sanctuary, Mediterranean Sea. J. Cetacean Res. Manage., 24(1), 1-5.
- PDF Genov, T., Železnik, J., Bruno, C., Ascheri, D., Fontanesi, E., & Blasi, M. F. (2022). The longest recorded movement of an inshore common bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus). Mammalian Biology, 1-13.
- PDF Ascheri, D., Fontanesi, E., Ballardini, M., Nani, B., & Alessi, J. (2022). Occurrence, site fidelity, and abundance of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Western Ligurian Sea. J. Cetacean Res. Manage., 23(1), 191-204.
- PDF Carta, E., Ascheri, D., & Fontanesi, E. (2021). New record of Long-tailed Jaeger (Stercorarius longicaudus) off Liguria (NW Italy). Rivista Italiana di Ornitologia, 91(1), 57-58
Conference paper
- Presence, distribution and movements of the bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) in the Western Mediterranean Sea (2026)
- Overlap between cetacean distribution and marine litter in the Western Ligurian Sea (2024)
- Prevalence of viral skin lesions in two different dolphin species in the Western Ligurian Sea, Italy(2024)
- Anthropic pressure on cetaceans stranded along the Ligurian coast within the Pelagos Sanctuary (2024)
- Contaminanti immunotossici negli esemplari di Tursiops truncatus del Santuario Pelagos e loro stato di salute: qual è il rischio reale? (2023)
- Survival in the Mediterranean Sea: the sperm whale Atlante (2023)
- Bottlenose dolphin (Tursiops truncatus) habitat partitioning in relation to age-classes in the Western Ligurian Sea (2023)
- Occurrence of tattoo skin lesions in bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) related to exceptional climatic events in the Western Ligurian Sea (2023)
- Mark-recapture analysis of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus, Linnaeus 1758) movements in the Ligurian Sea, Tyrrhenian Sea and Gulf of Taranto through photo-identification analysis (2023)
- Temporal analysis of changes in marks of bottlenose dolphins’ dorsal fin in the Western Ligurian Sea (2023)
- Prevalence of skin lesions in wild bottlenose dolphins determined through photo-ID analysis (2023)
- Anthropogenic injuries in the Western Ligurian Sea common bottlenose dolphin population – case study (2021)
- Bottlenose dolphins in the Western Ligurian Sea (Mediterranean Sea): a preliminary study on social structure, site fidelity and residency patterns (2019)
Tesi di laurea
- Tesi triennale Univeristà del Piemonte orientale: Presenza, distribuzione e composizione dei gruppi di stenella striata nelle acque costiere del Ponente Ligure (2024)
- Tesi triennale Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia: Distribuzione di capodoglio e di balenottera comune in Mar Ligure Occidentale (2024)
- Tesi magistrale Università di Bologna: Occurrence and distribution of northern gannet (Morus Bassanus) in the Western Ligurian Sea (2024)
- Tesi triennale Univeristà degli Studi di Genova: Monitoraggio invernale della fauna marina nel Mar Ligure Occidentale (2024)
- Tesi triennale Univeristà Ca Foscari Venezia: Tecnica della Foto-Identificazione applicata al Tursiope (Tursiops truncatus) nel Santuario Pelagos (2023)
- Tesi di master Univeristà di Padova: Prevalence of skin lesions in wild bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the NW Mediterranean Sea determined through photo-identification analysis (2023)
- Tesi magistrale Università degli Studi di Modena e Reggio Emilia: Tursiopi (Tursiops truncatus) e attività di pesca: analisi delle interazioni nel mar Ligure di Ponente (2022)
- Tesi magistrale Univeristà degli Studi di Genova: Social structure and abundance of bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) in the Western Ligurian Sea (2020)
- Tesi triennale Università di Parma: Monitoraggio Tursiops truncatus e raccolta dati sulla fauna marina del ponente ligure (2020)
- Tesi triennale Universitè de Franche Comtè: La faune de la mer Ligure et le cas spécifique du grand dauphin (2019)