Marco Vannini

Marco Vannini (born March 3, 1943, in Florence) is Professor of Invertebrate Zoology at the Department of Evolutionary Biology L. Pardi of the University of Florence.

He is member of the coordination board of Doctorate in Ethology and Ecology, at the University of Florence, member of the Centre for the Study of Tropical Faunistics and Ecology of CNR, from 1970 to 2003.

He is the author of about 120 papers on international journals of zoology, ethology, marine biology and marine ecology.

Research topics : behaviour and biology of crustacean decapods,[1] ecology and population genetics of Indo-pacific mangrove fauna, ecology of tropical and Mediterranean rocky shores, problems of biodiversity and conservation Since 1970 he has organized or participated in about 45 research expeditions in several sites of the Western Indian Ocean, mostly in Somalia and Kenya.

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