Ferraro Luciana

She is involved in multidisciplinary investigations of living and fossil foraminifera that include fieldwork (both land and sea), ecological and geochemical biomonitoring and stable isotope stratigraphy focused on understanding the paleoclimate and paleoceanographic evolution of Neogene and Quaternary-Holocene Mediterranean marine records. Her main research interests concern ecological characteristics of benthic foraminifera and the mechanisms of coupling between physical-chemical factors and the response of benthic foraminifera in relation to different stress and pollution.

Giordano L., Ferraro L., Salvatore M., Oscurato S.L., Maddalena P., 2019. Morphometric analysis on benthic foraminifera through Atomic Force Microscopy. Marine Micropaleontology, 153, 101775.

Bergamin L., Di Bella L., Ferraro L., Frezza V., Pierfranceschi G., Romano E., 2019. Benthic foraminifera in a coastal marine area of the eastern Ligurian Sea (Italy): Response to environmental stress. Ecological Indicators ,96, 16-31.

Jorissen F., Nardelli M.P., Almogi-Labin A., Barras C., Bergamin L., Bicchi E., El Kateb A., Ferraro L., McGann M., Morigi C., Romano E., Sabbatini A., Schweizer M., Spezzaferri S., 2018. Developing Foram-AMBI for biomonitoring in the Mediterranean: Species assignments to ecological categories. Marine Micropaleontology, 140, 33-45.

Ferraro L., Rubino F., Belmonte M., Da Prato S., Greco M., Frontalini F., 2017. A Multidisciplinary approach to study confined marine basins: the holobenthic and merobenthic assemblages in the Mar Piccolo of Taranto (Ionian Sea, Mediterranean). Marine Biodiversity, 47, 887-911.

Margaritelli G., Vallefuoco M., Di Rita F., Capotondi L., Bellucci L.G., Insinga D.D., Bonomo S., Cacho I., Cascella A., Ferraro L. et al., 2016. Marine response to climate changes during the last five millennia in the central Mediterranean Sea. Global and Planetary Change 142, 53-72.

Schönfeld J., Alve E., Geslin E., Jorissen F., Korsun S., Spezzaferri S. and members of the FOBIMO group (Abramovich S., Almogi-Labin A., Armynot du Chatelet E., Barras C., Bergamin L., Bicchi E., Bouchet V., Cearreta A., Di Bella L., Dijkstra N., Trevisan Disaro S., Ferraro L., Frontalini F., Gennari G., Golikova E., Haynert K., Hess S., Husum K., Martins V., McGann M., Oron S., Romano E., Mello Sousa S. and Tsujimoto A., 2012. The FOBIMO (FOraminiferal BIo-MOnitoring) initiative – towards a standardised protocol for benthic foraminiferal monitoring studies. Marine Micropaleontology, 94-95, 1-13.

Foresi L. M., Verducci M., Baldassini N., Lirer F., Mazzei R., Salvatorini G., Ferraro L., Da Prato S., 2011. Integrated stratigraphy of St. Peter’s Pool section (Malta): new age for the upper globigerina limestone member and progress towards the langhian GSSP. Stratigraphy, 8, 125-143.

Di Stefano A., Verducci M., Lirer F., Ferraro L., Iaccarino S.M., Hüsing S.K., Hilgen F.J., 2010. Paleoenvironmental conditions preceding the Messinian Salinity Crisis in Central Mediterranean: integrated data from the Upper Miocene Trave section (Italy). Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology, 297, 37-53.

Ferraro L., Sammartino S., Feo M.L., Rumolo P., Salvagio Manta D., Marsella E., M. Sprovieri, 2009. Utility of benthic foraminifera for biomonitoring of contamination in marine sediments: a case study from the Naples harbour (southern Italy). Journal of Environmental Monitoring, 11, 1226-1235.

Ferraro L., Sprovieri M., Lirer F., Alberico I., Prevedello L. and Marsella E., 2006. Benthic foraminifera and heavy metals distribution: a case study from the Naples Harbour (Tyrrhenian Sea, Southern Italy). Environmental Pollution, 142(2), 274-287.

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