Antonio Pusceddu
Researcher
The future of the oceans and rivers.
The research of Antonio Pusceddu.
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Judgement day is on a clock.
The judgement day clock marks 100 seconds to the end of the world. It isn’t a biblical prophecy. But an imminent warning launched at the beginning of 2020 by a group of scientists of the Doomsday Clock, a metaphorical clock that measures the time left for mankind on the planet.
If you tell a story, then everything changes.
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Climate change warns man of an imminent danger: the extinction of living species, the end of life on the planet. In the eyes of someone who deals with science, and not only that, the state of health of the seas is a very clear and distinctive clue of an already solved puzzle. The researchers explain the reason.
Antonio Pusceddu
Professor of Conservation and Ecosystem Management and Marine Biology.
Research field in reference to the short film: climate change.
Antonio Pusceddu is a teacher of Conservation and Ecosystem Management. He also teaches Marine Biology at University of Cagliari. The realisation of the short film draws its inspiration on the reflection on climate change, the rise of temperatures, the men’s responsibility in the altering of the marine and terrestrial ecosystem’s balance.
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The footprint of human activities has left a mark also on the depths of the seas. Pollution, rising temperatures, CO2 emissions and ocean acidification are among the causes attributed to the alteration of the balance of the marine ecosystem.
The research tells these aspects and attests to the responsibility of man in many activities related to the change of the marine habitat: among these, the reduction of biodiversity, the alteration of the physical and chemical composition of the oceanic seabed, the disappearance of important living species, indicators of the state of health of the seas.
Studies also show how other activities, such as mariculture and trawling, for example, have been partially responsible for changes in the marine habitat, to the detriment of all forms of life, plants and animals.
Effects of intensive mariculture on sediment biochemistry
Ecological Applications 2007
Red coral extinction risk enhanced by ocean acidification
Scientific Reports 2013
Chronic and intensive bottom trawling impairs deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystem functioning
PNAS 2014
Ocean acidification alters meiobenthic assemblage composition and organic matter degradation rates in seagrass sediments
Limnology and oceanography 2019
Sunscreens Cause Coral Bleaching by Promoting Viral Infections
Enviromental Health Perspectives 2008
Major consequences of an intense dense shelf water cascading event on deep-sea benthic trophic conditions and meiofaunal biodiversity
Biogeosciences 2013
Biodiversity loss and turnover in alternative states in the Mediterranean Sea: a case study on Meiofauna
Scientific Reports 2016
Impacts of marine aquaculture at large spatial scales: Evidences from N and P catchment loading and phytoplankton biomass
Marine Enviromental Research 2011
Species richness, species turnover and functional diversity in nematodes of the deep Mediterranean Sea: searching for drivers at different spatial scales
Global Ecology and Biogeography 2014
Dumping to the abyss: single-use marine litter invading bathyal plains of the Sardinian margin (Tyrrhenian Sea)
Marine Pollution Bulletin 2018
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