Scientific publications
Scientific output from Tethys’ research is regularly published in peer-reviewed journals, alongside high-level outreach publications.
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| id | authors | year | title | source | doi | project | type |
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| 1 | Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1981 | L’orca | Società Editrice Internazionale, Torino 177 pp. | Paper | ||
| 2 | Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1986 | Manuale del cetonauta | Edizioni del Cormorano, Milano 72 pp. | Book | ||
| 3 | Benedetta Cavalloni | 1988 | Aspects of cetacean ecology in the central and eastern Mediterranean | Degree in Biological Sciences thesis, University of Padova, Italy. | Thesis | ||
| 4 | Margherita Zanardelli | 1988 | Recording and analysis of acoustic emissions of two cetacean species: the striped dolphin and the Risso’s dolphin | Degree in Natural Sciences thesis, University of Milan, Italy. | Thesis | ||
| 5 | Giovanni Bearzi | 1989 | Contribution to the knowledge on the biology of bottlenose dolphins in the Northern Adriatic Sea | Degree in Biological Sciences thesis, University of Padova, Italy. | Thesis | ||
| 6 | Maria Cristina Venturino | 1989 | Study of the osteometric variability of Monachus monachus | Degree in Natural Sciences thesis, University of Milan, Italy. | Thesis | ||
| 7 | Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Venturino M.C., Zanardelli M., Bearzi G., Borsani J.F., Cavalloni B., Cussino E., Jahoda M., Airoldi S | 1990 | Distribution and relative abundance of cetaceans in the Central Mediterranean Sea | European Research on Cetaceans 4:41-43. | Conference | ||
| 8 | Zanardelli M., Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Pavan G | 1990 | Underwater acoustic signals by the striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba | European Research on Cetaceans 4:69. | MFWP | Conference | |
| 9 | Laura Bonomi | 1991 | Aspects of the social ecology of bottlenose dolphins in the Kvarneric (Northern Adriatic Sea) | Degree in Biological Sciences thesis, University of Milan, Italy. | Thesis | ||
| 10 | Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Bearzi G., Bonomi L | 1991 | Bottlenose dolphins off Croatia: Photoidentification and behavioral observations | 9th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Chicago, Illinois, 5-9 December 1991. | Conference | ||
| 11 | Bearzi G | 1991 | Cetaceans of the Mediterranean Sea: A multimedia interactive program as a new way to educate visitors in dolphinaria | 9th Symposium of the European Association for Aquatic Mammals Riccione, Italy, 15-19 March, 1991. | Conference | ||
| 12 | Zanardelli M., Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Baker C.S., Jahoda M | 1991 | Fin whales summering in the Ligurian Sea: photoidentification and genetic analysis | 9th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Chicago, 5-9 | MFWP | Conference | |
| 13 | Bearzi G | 1991 | Il tursiope del Museo Civico di Storia Naturale di Pordenone | Pp 97-100 in Anonymous, edIl museo spettacolo ANMS, Museo delle Scienze di Pordenone. | |||
| 14 | Elena Politi | 1991 | Stomach contents of blue sharks in the Northern and Central Adriatic Sea | Degree in Biological Sciences thesis, University of Milano, Italy. | Thesis | ||
| 15 | Focardi S., Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Venturino M.C., Zanardelli M., Marsili L | 1991 | Subcutaneous organochlorine levels in finback whales (Balaenoptera physalus) from the Ligurian Sea | European Research on Cetaceans 5:93-96. | MFWP | Conference | |
| 16 | Borsani J.F., Pavan G., Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1992 | A cetacean sound library catalogue of the Mediterranean Sea | Bioacoustics 4(1):60-61. | Paper | ||
| 17 | Borsani J.F., Pavan G., Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1992 | An acoustic study of sperm whales, Physeter macrocephalus, and other cetaceans in the southern Tyrrhenian and western Ionian Seas | European Research on Cetaceans 6:171-173. | Conference | ||
| 18 | Bearzi G., Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Bonomi L | 1992 | Bottlenose dolphins off Croatia: a socio-ecologic study | European Research on Cetaceans 6:130-133. | Conference | ||
| 19 | Zanardelli M., Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Acquarone M | 1992 | Cetacean sighting reports by amateurs: a two-sided coin | European Research on Cetaceans 6:79-82. | MFWP | Conference | |
| 20 | Borsani J.F., Pavan G., Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1992 | Cetacean Sound Archive: collection of sound recordings from cetaceans of the Mediterranean | European Research on Cetaceans 6:168-170. | Conference | ||
| 21 | Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Bearzi G | 1992 | Cetaceans in the northern Adriatic Sea: past, present, and future | Rapports de la Commission Internationale de la Mer Méditerranée 33:303. | |||
| 22 | Politi E., Bearzi M., Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Cussino E., Gnone G | 1992 | Distribution and frequency of cetaceans in the waters adjacent to the Greek Ionian Islands | European Research on Cetaceans 6:75-78. | IDP | Conference | |
| 23 | Bearzi G | 1992 | L’arte della pesca | Pp 123-153 in GNotarbartolo di Sciara, ed Le ricchezze del mare Nuova ERI Edizioni RAI, Torino (in Italian). | |||
| 24 | Notarbartolo di Sciara G., ed | 1992 | Le ricchezze del mare | Nuova ERI Edizioni RAI, Torino (in Italian) 156 pp. | |||
| 25 | Focardi S., Marsili L., Leonzio C., Zanardelli M., Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1992 | Organochlorines and trace elements in skin biopsies of fin whale Balaenoptera physalus and striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba | European Research on Cetaceans 6:230-233. | MFWP | Conference | |
| 26 | Zanardelli M., Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Jahoda M | 1992 | Photo-identification and behavioural observations of fin whales summering in the Ligurian Sea | European Research on Cetaceans 6:86-89. | MFWP | Conference | |
| 27 | Acquarone M., Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1992 | Pigmentation patterns of the striped dolphin, Stenella coeruleoalba, (Meyen, 1833) in the Central Mediterranean Sea | European Research on Cetaceans 6:203-205. | MFWP | Conference | |
| 28 | Bearzi G., Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1992 | Preliminary observations of bottlenose dolphins near the Island of Tavolara, Sardinia | European Research on Cetaceans 6:127-129. | Conference | ||
| 29 | Cagnolaro L., Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1992 | Research activities and conservation status of cetaceans in Italy | Bollettino del Museo dell’Istituto di Biologia, Genova 56-57:53-85. | Paper | ||
| 30 | Fossi M.C., Marsili L., Leonzio C., Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Zanardelli M | 1992 | The use of non-destructive biomarker in Mediterranean cetaceans: preliminary data on MFO activity in skin biopsy | Marine Pollution Bulletin 24(9):459-461. | MFWP | Paper | |
| 31 | Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Ausenda F., Orsi Relini L., Relini G | 1992 | Una proposta di gestione dell’ambiente pelagico: la Riserva della Biosfera nel Bacino corso-ligure provenzale | Atti XXII Congresso della Società Italiana di Biologia Marina, Cagliari, Santa Margherita di Pula, 20-24 May 1991 Oebalia, Supplemento 17:517-521. | Conference | ||
| 32 | Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Venturino M.C., Zanardelli M., Bearzi G., Borsani J.F., Cavalloni B | 1993 | Cetaceans in the central Mediterranean Sea: distribution and sighting frequencies | Italian Journal of Zoology 60:131-138. | Paper | ||
| 33 | Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Bearzi G | 1993 | Cetaceans in the northern Adriatic Sea: past, present and future | Proceedings of the 4th Congress of Croatian Biologists Croatian Biological Society, ZagrebPp 86-87. | Conference | ||
| 34 | Zanardelli M., Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Benazzo G., Borsani J.F | 1993 | Fin whales in the Mediterranean Sea: resident or migratory? | 10th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Galveston, Texas, 11-15 November 1993. | MFWP | Conference | |
| 35 | Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Jahoda M | 1993 | I cetacei del Mar Ligure. Guida all’identificazione delle specie del “Santuario” | Tethys Research Institute, Milano. | Book | ||
| 36 | Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1993 | I cetacei del Mediterraneo | Pp 39-52 in: XIX Seminario sulla evoluzione biologica e i grandi problemi della biologia: faune attuali e faune fossiliRoma, 26-28 febbraio 1992 Contributi del Centro Linceo Interdisciplinare “Beniamino Segre”, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. | |||
| 37 | Cafiero G., Jahoda M | 1993 | I giganti del mare: storia e storie di balene, orche e delfini | White Star, Vercelli, Italy (also published in English, German, French, Hungarian and Spanish) 144 pp. | |||
| 38 | Giovanna Benazzo | 1993 | Photoidentification applied to the study of fin whale ecology in the Mediterranean Sea | Degree in Natural Sciences thesis, University of Milan, Italy. | MFWP | Thesis | |
| 39 | Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Forcada J., Acquarone M., Fabbri F | 1993 | Population estimates of fin whales and striped dolphins summering in the Corso-Ligurian Basin | European Research on Cetaceans 7:135-138. | Conference | ||
| 40 | Jahoda M., Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1993 | Respiration patterns of fin whales summering in the Ligurian Sea | European Research on Cetaceans 7:237-240. | MFWP | Conference | |
| 41 | Lafortuna C.L., Jahoda M., Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Saibene F | 1993 | Respiratory pattern in free-ranging striped dolphins | European Research on Cetaceans 7:241-246. | MFWP | Conference | |
| 42 | Fossi M.C., Marsili L., Leonzio C., Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Zanardelli M., Focardi S | 1993 | Skin biopsies in cetaceans: a non-destructive method for biomarker studies | European Research on Cetaceans 7:279-282. | MFWP | Conference | |
| 43 | Bearzi G., Notarbartolo di Sciara G., Politi E., Lauriano G | 1993 | Social ecology and behavior of bottlenose dolphins in the waters adjacent to the island of Losinj (Croatia) | 10th Biennial Conference on the Biology of Marine Mammals, Galveston, Texas, 12-15 November 1993. | Conference | ||
| 44 | Watkins W.A., Daher M.A., Fristrup K.M., Howald T.J., Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1993 | Sperm whales tagged with transponders and tracked underwater by sonar | Marine Mammal Science 9(1):55-67. | Paper | ||
| 45 | Peharda M., Bearzi G | 1993 | Surfacing patterns of bottle-nosed dolphins in the Cres-Losinj area (Northern Adriatic Sea) | European Research on Cetaceans 7:73-76. | Conference | ||
| 46 | Melita Peharda | 1993 | Surfacing patterns of bottlenose dolphins Tursiops truncatus (Montagu, 1821) in the Northern Adriatic Sea | Extended essay, International Baccalaureate School, Zagreb, Croatia. | |||
| 47 | Politi E., Airoldi S., Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1994 | A preliminary study of the ecology of cetaceans in the waters adjacent to the Greek Ionian islands | European Research on Cetaceans 8:111-115. | IDP | Conference | |
| 48 | Di Natale A., Notarbartolo di Sciara G | 1994 | A review of the passive fishing nets and trap fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea and of the cetacean bycatch | Pp 189-202 in W.FPerrin, G.P Donovan and J Barlow, eds Gillnets and cetaceans Reports of the International Whaling Commission, Special Issue 15. | Paper | ||
| 49 | Borsani J.F., Pavan G | 1994 | Acoustics and aspects of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) behavior and ecology in the Mediterranean Sea | Italian Journal of Zoology (Suppl 79) 61:79. | Paper | ||
| 50 | Politi E | 1994 | Behavioural sampling | Pp 13-15 in GNotarbartolo di Sciara, P.G.H Evans and E Politi, eds Methods for the study of bottlenose dolphins in the wild European Cetacean Society Newsletter, Special Issue 23. | |||
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