Alessandro Cau

3.7k total citations
138 papers, 2.5k citations indexed

About

Alessandro Cau is a scholar working on Global and Planetary Change, Ecology and Nature and Landscape Conservation. According to data from OpenAlex, Alessandro Cau has authored 138 papers receiving a total of 2.5k indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 63 papers in Global and Planetary Change, 59 papers in Ecology and 41 papers in Nature and Landscape Conservation. Recurrent topics in Alessandro Cau's work include Marine and fisheries research (42 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (41 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (34 papers). Alessandro Cau is often cited by papers focused on Marine and fisheries research (42 papers), Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies (41 papers) and Ichthyology and Marine Biology (34 papers). Alessandro Cau collaborates with scholars based in Italy, France and Spain. Alessandro Cau's co-authors include Maria Cristina Follesa, Rita Cannas, Davide Moccia, Simonepietro Canese, Antonio Pusceddu, Marzia Bo, Cristina Porcu, Antonello Mulas, Michela Angiolillo and Danila Cuccu and has published in prestigious journals such as Environmental Science & Technology, PLoS ONE and The Science of The Total Environment.

In The Last Decade

Alessandro Cau

134 papers receiving 2.4k citations

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

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Name	h						Papers	Cites
Alessandro Cau Italy	26	1.1k	857	731	561	516	138	2.5k
Maria Cristina Follesa Italy	25	1.1k 1.0×	1.1k 1.3×	523 0.7×	446 0.8×	722 1.4×	177	2.4k
Rita Cannas Italy	23	1.1k 1.0×	855 1.0×	277 0.4×	486 0.9×	535 1.0×	134	2.0k
F. Patricio Ojeda Chile	30	1.8k 1.6×	1.5k 1.8×	328 0.4×	1.4k 2.6×	553 1.1×	103	3.5k
Massimiliano Scalici Italy	25	1.0k 0.9×	416 0.5×	1.0k 1.4×	244 0.4×	371 0.7×	177	2.3k
Pietro Battaglia Italy	24	649 0.6×	789 0.9×	1.2k 1.7×	118 0.2×	333 0.6×	95	2.3k
Gerardo I. Zardi South Africa	28	1.1k 1.0×	967 1.1×	477 0.7×	1.3k 2.3×	111 0.2×	87	2.5k
Jonna Engström‐Öst Finland	30	785 0.7×	636 0.7×	320 0.4×	1.3k 2.3×	319 0.6×	65	2.3k
William Watson United States	19	657 0.6×	822 1.0×	355 0.5×	399 0.7×	370 0.7×	48	1.5k
Simon Berrow Ireland	25	1.8k 1.6×	655 0.8×	699 1.0×	457 0.8×	257 0.5×	129	2.6k
Jørgen S. Christiansen Norway	29	1.1k 1.0×	870 1.0×	322 0.4×	369 0.7×	1.0k 2.0×	100	3.1k

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Co-authorship network of co-authors of Alessandro Cau

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Dessì, Claudia, Stefano Aliani, Maria Cristina Follesa, et al.. (2025). Weathered microplastics alter deep sea benthic biogeochemistry and organic matter cycling: insights from a microcosm experiment. Environmental Pollution. 386. 127209–127209.

Šmejkal, Marek, et al.. (2023). Long-term sublethal exposure to polyethylene and tire wear particles: Effects on risk-taking behaviour in invasive and native fish. The Science of The Total Environment. 908. 168233–168233. 10 indexed citations

Bellodi, Andrea, Antonello Mulas, Alessandro Cau, et al.. (2023). Ontogenetic Shifts in Body Morphology of Demersal Sharks’ Species (Order: Squaliformes) Inhabiting the Western-Central Mediterranean Sea, with Implications for Their Bio-Ecological Role. Biology. 12(8). 1150–1150. 6 indexed citations

Mulas, Antonello, Andrea Bellodi, Isabella Bitetto, et al.. (2022). Movement patterns analysis as a tool in Fully Protected Areas design: Influence of relocations on travelled distances of Palinurus elephas (Fabr. 1787) in Sardinian FPAs (central-western Mediterranean). Marine Environmental Research. 182. 105766–105766. 1 indexed citations

Porcu, Cristina, Laura Carugati, Andrea Bellodi, et al.. (2022). The Use of Reproductive Indicators for Conservation Purposes: The Case Study of Palinurus elephas in Two Fully Protected Areas and Their Surrounding Zones (Central-Western Mediterranean). Biology. 11(8). 1188–1188. 1 indexed citations

Porcu, Cristina, Eleonora Lai, Andrea Bellodi, et al.. (2022). Investigating the Ovarian Microstructure in the Genera Helicolenus and Scorpaena (Teleostei, Sub-Order Scorpaenoidei) with Implications for Ovarian Dynamics and Spawning. Animals. 12(11). 1412–1412. 4 indexed citations

Palmas, Francesco, et al.. (2022). Rivers of waste: Anthropogenic litter in intermittent Sardinian rivers, Italy (Central Mediterranean). Environmental Pollution. 302. 119073–119073. 20 indexed citations

Carugati, Laura, Davide Moccia, Lorenzo Bramanti, et al.. (2022). Deep-Dwelling Populations of Mediterranean Corallium rubrum and Eunicella cavolini: Distribution, Demography, and Co-Occurrence. Biology. 11(2). 333–333. 13 indexed citations

Cau, Alessandro, Simone Franceschini, Davide Moccia, et al.. (2021). Scattered accumulation hotspots of macro-litter on the seafloor: Insights for mitigation actions. Environmental Pollution. 292(Pt A). 118338–118338. 18 indexed citations

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Mulas, Antonello, Andrea Bellodi, Cristina Porcu, et al.. (2020). Living naked: first case of lack of skin‐related structures in an elasmobranch, the blackmouth catshark (Galeus melastomus). Journal of Fish Biology. 97(4). 1252–1256. 5 indexed citations

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Marongiu, Martina Francesca, Cristina Porcu, Andrea Bellodi, et al.. (2020). Abundance, distribution and reproduction of the Data-Deficient species (Squalus blainville) around Sardinia Island (central western Mediterranean Sea) as a contribution to its conservation. Marine and Freshwater Research. 72(1). 118–130. 10 indexed citations

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Moccia, Davide, Alessandro Cau, Lorenzo Bramanti, et al.. (2020). Spatial distribution and habitat characterization of marine animal forest assemblages along nine submarine canyons of Eastern Sardinia (central Mediterranean Sea). Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers. 167. 103422–103422. 19 indexed citations

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Spedicato, María Teresa, Walter Zupa, Pierluigi Carbonara, et al.. (2019). Spatial distribution of marine macro-litter on the seafloor in the northern Mediterranean Sea: the MEDITS initiative. Scientia Marina. 83(S1). 257–270. 53 indexed citations

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Bertolino, Marco, S. Ricci, Simonepietro Canese, et al.. (2019). Diversity of the sponge fauna associated with white coral banks from two Sardinian canyons (Mediterranean Sea). Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom. 99(8). 1735–1751. 8 indexed citations

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Colloca, Francesco, Giacomo Milisenda, Francesca Capezzuto, et al.. (2019). Spatial and temporal trend in the abundance and distribution of gurnards (Pisces: Triglidae) in the northern Mediterranean Sea. Scientia Marina. 83(S1). 101–116. 5 indexed citations

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Mulas, Antonello, Andrea Bellodi, Rita Cannas, et al.. (2019). Resource partitioning among sympatric elasmobranchs in the central-western Mediterranean continental shelf. Marine Biology. 166(12). 24 indexed citations

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Follesa, Maria Cristina, Andrea Bellodi, Rita Cannas, et al.. (2019). The MEDITS maturity scales as a useful tool for investigating the reproductive traits of key species in the Mediterranean Sea. Scientia Marina. 83(S1). 235–256. 17 indexed citations

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Cau, Alessandro, Andrea Bellodi, Davide Moccia, et al.. (2019). Shelf-life and labels: A cheap dating tool for seafloor macro litter? Insights from MEDITS surveys in Sardinian sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 141. 430–433. 12 indexed citations

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Follesa, Maria Cristina, et al.. (2008). Feeding ecology of Alepocephalus rostratus (Osteichthyes, Alepocephalidae) on the central western Mediterranean slope (Sardinian Channel). UNICA IRIS Institutional Research Information System (University of Cagliari). 248–249. 2 indexed citations

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Merella, Paolo, et al.. (2008). Morphological and biomolecular characterization of didymozoid trematodes of gills of wild Atlantic bluefin tuna Thunnus thynnus (L.) caught off Sardinia (western Mediterranean). 50. 78–78. 1 indexed citations

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