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Massimo Ponti
PeerJ Author & Reviewer
115 Points

Contributions by role

Author 100
Reviewer 15

Contributions by subject area

Conservation Biology
Ecology
Marine Biology
Natural Resource Management
Ecosystem Science
Biological Oceanography

Massimo Ponti

PeerJ Author & Reviewer

Summary

Adjunct professor in Underwater Scientific Research and in Experimental Laboratory at Sea (MSc's school in Marine Biology, University of Bologna)

President of the Italian Association of Scientific Divers
Vice-President of the Reef Check Italy Association

Research interests:
Ecology of macrobenthic communities on soft and hard bottoms
Temperate and tropical reefs
Artificial reefs
Natural and human disturbances
Bioconstruction and species interactions
Secondary Production and Biogeochemical cycling in coastal lagoons
Taxonomy of Mediterranean macrobenthos, in particular of polychaetes
Scientific Diving
Geographical Information Systems applications to coastal ecology

Biodiversity Bioengineering Biogeography Bioinformatics Conservation Biology Ecology Environmental Sciences Marine Biology Statistics Zoology

Past or current institution affiliations

University of Bologna

Work details

Research manager and Adjunct professor

University of Bologna
February 2007

President

ITALIAN ASSOCIATION OF SCIENTIFIC DIVERS
February 2010

Vice-President

Reef Check Italia onlus
January 2008

Websites

  • University of Bologna
  • Google Scholar
  • ResearchGate

PeerJ Contributions

  • Articles 1
October 25, 2016
Baseline reef health surveys at Bangka Island (North Sulawesi, Indonesia) reveal new threats
Massimo Ponti, Francesca Fratangeli, Nicolò Dondi, Marco Segre Reinach, Clara Serra, Michael J. Sweet
https://doi.org/10.7717/peerj.2614 PubMed 27812416