Senior Researcher
Integrative Marine Ecology Department - Centro Interdipartimentale della Sicilia
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Research Interest
I have been a researcher II level at SZN since September 2018, having moved from Ispra (Institute for Environmental Protection and Research), where I occupied the same position from January 2008.
My research interests concern several aspects of marine biology and ecology with a special focus on large pelagic fish, their behavior and interactions among species, and also the impact of the litter on fish and fishery management. On these issues I studied swordfish behaviour during their reproductive period, movements and migration, feeding strategy and their overlap with other pelagic fish, as well as management of resources. Research leading to a Local Management Plan is central to my current activities. In order to better understand the availability of pelagic resources, (e.g. trend, distribution, migratory patterns) several factors (e.g stressors) such as climate change but also marine litter (e.g plastic ingestion) are currently being studied. In recent years I developed research on shallow and deep hydrothermal systems, with the main emphasis on adaptation of living communities to hydrothermal vents. Actually I am involved in a study on the distribution of Mediterranean Spearfish in Italian seas, complementary to the study on co-management of fisheries in Sicily and I am project manager of the Interreg Med project Plastic Busters MPAs: Preserving biodiversity from plastics in Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas.
Selected Publications
Livi, S., Romeo, T., De Innocentiis, S., Greco, C., Battaglia, P., Marino, G., & Andaloro, F. The genetic population structure of Thunnus thynnus (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Mediterranean Sea, a controversial issue. 2019. Journal of Applied Ichthyology. https://doi.org/10.1111/jai.13867
Esposito V., Andaloro F., Canese S., Bortoluzzi G., Bo M., Di Bella M., Italiano F., Sabatino G., Battaglia P., Consoli P., Giordano P., Spagnoli F., La Cono V., Yakimov M.M., Scotti G., Romeo T. 2018. PLoS ONE 13(1): e0190710. https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0190710
D’Alessandro, M., Esposito, V., Porporato, E. M., Berto, D., Renzi, M., Giacobbe, S., ... & Romeo, T. (2018). Relationships between plastic litter and chemical pollutants on benthic biodiversity. Environmental Pollution, 242, 1546-1556.
Bortoluzzi G., Romeo T., La Cono V., La Spada G., Esposito V., Sabatino G., Di Bella M., Canese S., Scotti G., Bo M., Giuliano L., Golyshin PN., Yakimov M.M., Andaloro. F. 2017. Ferrous iron- and ammonium-rich diffuse vents support habitat-specific communities in a shallow hydrothermal field off the Basiluzzo Islet (Aeolian Volcanic Archipelago). GEOBIOLOGY, ISSN: 1472-4669, DOI: 10.1111/gbi.12237
Romeo T., Battaglia P., Raicevich S., Perzia P., Andaloro F., 2015. Swordfish harpoon fishery in the Mediterranean Sea: recent data to implement the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the EcAp (Ecosystem Approach) process. Fisheries Research, 161: 191-199. DOI: 10.1016/j.fishres.2014.07.013;
Romeo T., Battaglia P., 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: 358–361.
Romeo T, Ammendolia G, Canese S, Andaloro F, Battaglia P 2016. Recent records of swordfish attacks on harpoon vessels in the Mediterranean Sea. ACTA ADRIATICA, ISSN: 0001-5113, 57(2):273-280
Perzia P., Battaglia P., Consoli P., Andaloro F., Romeo T. 2016. Swordfish monitoring by a GIS-based spatial and temporal distribution analysis on harpoon fishery data: a case of study in the central Mediterranean Sea. Fisheries Research, 183: 424-434.
Romeo, T., Battaglia, P., Pedà, C., Perzia, P., Consoli, P., Esposito, V., & Andaloro, F. (2012). Pelagic cephalopods of the central Mediterranean Sea determined by the analysis of the stomach content of large fish predators. Helgoland Marine Research, 66(3), 295.
Romeo, T., Perzia, P., Esposito, V., Malara, D., Battaglia, P., Consoli, P., ... & Andaloro, F. (2011). Relationship between swordfish swimming behaviour and sea surface temperature in the central Mediterranean Sea during the reproductive period. Marine Biology Research, 7(2), 186-194.
Romeo, T., Consoli, P., Punzon, A., Modica, L., Raffa, F., Perzia, P., ... & Andaloro, F. (2010). Swordfish (Xiphias gladius Linnaeus 1758) harpoon fishery: a method of evaluation of swordfish presence in the Strait of Messina (Central Mediterranean Sea). Journal of Applied Ichthyology, 26(6), 886-891.
