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DivErsity and DistribUtion of ChEmosymbiotic metazoans along the Calabria coast

Elena Desiderà

Updated: Jan 31, 2023

Acronym: DEDUCE



Coordinator/Lead Partner: Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn - National Institute of Marine Biology, Ecology and Biotechnologies, Italy


Principal Investigator(s): Ulisse Cardini


Grant period: 2021-2023


Funding body and amount: Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, 45.000 €


Project in a nutshell:

In this project we plan to work at the interception of macrobenthic, meiobenthic and microbial taxonomy and ecology, biogeochemistry, geology and bioinformatics to constrain the diversity and distribution of chemosymbiotic metazoans along the Calabria coast, and to study the ecophysiology and ecological role of the most common species.


Contacts: ulisse.cardini(at)szn.it

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