Research Director
Biology and Evolution of Marine Organisms Department
Direttore Sicily Marine Center
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
Via dei Mille, 46 – 98057 Milazzo (ME)
Via Consolare Pompea, C.da Porticatello 29, 98100 Messina
Email: teresa.romeo(at)szn.it
Google scholar: https://scholar.google.com/citations?hl=it&user=pBoHEhkAAAAJ&
ERC sectors Behavioural ecology and evolution (LS8_11), Marine biology and ecology (LS8_13)
Settore scientifico-disciplinare - Ecologia (BIO/07)
*Associated to National Institute for Protection and Environmental Research (ISPRA)
Research Interest
My research activity is focused on aspects of organismal biology with the adoption of a multidisciplinary approach to evaluate the effects of human impacts and climate change on fisheries resources and marine ecosystems. I have a particular interest in the impact of microplastics on the biology and physiology of fish and cephalopods; study that I address through the analysis of behavioral responses and feeding habits as well as morphological analyzes of organs and tissues. Through observations in nature and satellite systems, genetic analysis and stomach contents, I study the behavior of migratory fish species (swordfish, garfish, tuna). In recent years I have coordinated projects and research activities aimed at studying marine ecosystems of hydrothermal environments, with a specific focus on species adaptations to the effects of acidification. I am principal investigator of several projects founded by the PON, PO FEAMP 2014-2020 Programmes, Interreg MED and of orders for preparatory studies for the implementation of offshore wind farms.
Selected Publications
Pedà, C., Longo, F., Berti, C., Laface, F., De Domenico, F., Consoli, P., ... & Romeo, T. (2022). The waste collector: information from a pilot study on the interaction between the common octopus (Octopus vulgaris, Cuvier, 1797) and marine litter in bottom traps fishing and first evidence of plastic ingestion. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 174, 113185.
Pedà, C., Romeo, T., Panti, C., Caliani, I., Casini, S., Marsili, L., ... & Fossi, M.C. (2022). Integrated biomarker responses in European seabass Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus, 1758) chronically exposed to PVC microplastics. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 438, 129488.
MacKenzie, B.R., Addis, P., Battaglia, P., Consoli, P., Andaloro, F., Sarà, G., ... & Romeo, T. (2022). Neglected fishery data sources as indicators of pre‐industrial ecological properties of Mediterranean swordfish (Xiphias gladius, Xiphiidae). Fish and Fisheries, 23(4), 829-846.
Schirinzi, G.F., Pedà, C., Battaglia, P., Laface, F., Galli, M., Baini, M., ... & Romeo, T. (2020). A new digestion approach for the extraction of microplastics from gastrointestinal tracts (GITs) of the common dolphinfish (Coryphaena hippurus) from the western Mediterranean Sea. Journal of Hazardous Materials, 397, 122794.
Romeo, T., Pietro, B., Pedà, C., Consoli, P., Andaloro, F., & Fossi, M.C. (2015). First evidence of presence of plastic debris in stomach of large pelagic fish in the Mediterranean Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 95(1), 358-361.
