Andrea Gori

Andrea Gori

Senior lecturer

ORCID: 0000-0001-8442-8079
Scopus Author ID: 14018179800
Knowledge area: Ecologia

Research group: Biologia de la conservació en ecosistemes marins (MEDRECOVER)

Teaching Innovation Groups: Grup d'Innovació Docent d'Ecologia i Canvi Global (GIDEC)

Contact Information
Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Avinguda Diagonal 643
+34 633824502
gori(a)ub.edu

Academic Training

Llicenciat . Università Roma Tre . 20/05/2005 . (Diploma / Degree / Activities)
Doctor . Universitat de Barcelona . 05/09/2011 . (Ph.D.)
Experto Universitari . Universidad Nacional de Educación a Distancia . 16/09/2011 . (Specialized Training)

Research interests

Distribution, ecology and ecophysiology of shallow and deep-sea corals and gorgonians
Vulnerability to impacts of marine ecosystems dominated by corals and gorgonians
Management and conservation of Vulnerable Marine Ecosystems

Projects

Restauración Ecológica de las Especies Estructurales Bentónicas en la Plataforma Continental . 2014 - 2016 . Fundación Banco Bilbao Vizcaya Argentaria (BBVA) . PI: Andrea Gori
Conservación y Recuperación de Poblaciones de Gorgonias de Profundidad mediante Restauración Ecológica y Mitigación de los Impactos de la Pesca (RESCAP) . 2018 - 2018 . Ref.RESCAP2017 . Fundación Biodiversidad . PI: Andrea Gori
Impactos derivados de la resuspensión de sedimentos por pesca de arrastre sobre comunidades bentónicas profundas (Abric) . 2019 - 2021 . Ministerio de Ciencia, Innovación y Universidades . PI: Pere Puig
Coral Ecology and Conservation in Mesophotic Temperate Ecosystems (ECoMeS) . 2020 - 2020 . Euromarine, European Marine Research Network . PI: Lorenzo Bramanti, Andrea Gori, Federica Costantini, Cristina Linares

Journal Publications

Gori, A.; Viladrich, N.; Gili, J.M.; Kotta, M.; Cucio, C.; Magni, L.; Bramanti, L.; Rossi, S. (2012). Reproductive cycle and trophic ecology in deep versus shallow populations of the Mediterranean gorgonian Eunicella singularis (Cap de Creus, northwestern Mediterranean Sea). Coral Reefs, 31, pp. 823 - 837 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-012-0904-1 . ISSN: 0722-4028
Gori, A.; Orejas, C.; Madurell, T.; Bramanti, L.; Martins, M.; Quintanilla, E.; Marti-Puig, P.; Lo Iacono, C.; Puig, P.; Requena, S.; Greenacre, M.; Gili, J.M. (2013). Bathymetrical distribution and size structure of cold-water coral populations in the Cap de Creus and Lacaze-Duthiers canyons (northwestern Mediterranean). Biogeosciences, 10, pp. 2049 - 2060 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1726-4170
Gori, A.; Reynaud, S.; Orejas, C.; Gili, J.M.; Ferrier-Pagès, C. (2014). Physiological performance of the cold-water coral Dendrophyllia cornigera reveals its preference for temperate environments. Coral Reefs, 33, pp. 665 - 674 . https://doi.org/10.1007/s00338-014-1167-9 . ISSN: 0722-4028
Grinyó, J.; Gori, A.; Ambroso, S.; Rurroy, A.; Calatayud, C.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Coppari, M.; Lo Iacono, C.; López-González, P.J.; Gili, J.M. (2016). Diversity, distribution and population size structure of deep Mediterranean gorgonian assemblages (Menorca Channel, Western Mediterranean Sea). Progress in Oceanography, 145, pp. 42 - 56 . ISSN: 0079-6611
Gori, A.; Ferrier-Pagès, C.; Hennige, S.J.; Murray, F.; Rottier, C.; Wicks, L.C.; Roberts, J.M. (2016). Physiological response of the cold-water coral Desmophyllum dianthus to thermal stress and ocean acidification. PeerJ, 4, pp. e1606 - e1606 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 2167-8359
Grinyó, J.; Viladrich, N.; Díaz, D.; Muñoz, A.; Mallol, S.; Salazar, J.; Castillo, R.; Gili, J.M.;, Gori, A. (2018). Reproduction, energy storage and metabolic requirements in a mesophotic population at the gorgonian Paramuricea macrospina. PLoS One, 13(9), p. e0203308 . Institutional Repository . ISSN: 1932-6203
Gori, A.; Tolosa, I.; Orejas, C.; Rueda, L.; Viladrich, N.; Grinyó, J.; Flögel, S.; Gili, J.M.; Grover, R.; Ferrier- Pagès, C. (2018). Biochemical composition of the cold-water coral Dendrophyllia cornigera under contrasting productivity regimes: insights from lipid biomarkers and compound-specific isotopes. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 141, pp. 106 - 117 . ISSN: 0967-0637
Orejas, C.; Gori, A.; Jiménez, C.; Rivera, J.; Kamidis, N.; Abu Alhaija, R.; Lo Iacono, C. (2019). Occurrence and distribution of the coral Dendrophyllia ramea in Cyprus insular shelf: environmental setting and anthropogenic impacts. Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography, 164, pp. 190 - 205 . ISSN: 0967-0645
Montseny, Maria; Linares, Cristina; Viladrich, Nuria; Olariaga, Alejandro; Carreras, Marc; Palomeras, Narcis; Gracias, Nuno; Istenic, Kiemen; Garcia, Rafael; Ambroso, Stefano; Santin, Andreu; Grinyo, Jordi; Gili, Josep-Maria; Gori, Andrea (2019). First attempts towards the restoration of gorgonian populations on the Mediterranean continental shelf. Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems, 29(8), pp. 1278 - 1284 . https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.3118 . ISSN: 1052-7613
Montseny, M.; Linares, C.; Viladrich, N.; Capdevila, P.; Ambroso, S.; Díaz, D.; Gili, J.M.; Gori, A. (2020). A new large-scale and cost-effective restoration method for cold-water coral gardens. Aquatic Conservation-Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems . ISSN: 1052-7613

Others Publications

Roberts, J.M.; Murray, F.; Anagnostou, E.; Hennige, S.; Gori, A.; Henry, L.A.; Kamenos, N.; Foster, G.L. (2016). Cold-water corals in an era of rapid global change: are these the deep ocean's most vulnerable ecosystems? . In The Cnidaria, past, present and future . Springer .
Gori, A.; Bavestrello, G.; Grinyó, J.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Ambroso, S.; Bo, M. (2017). Animal forests in deep coastal bottoms and continental shelf of the Mediterranean Sea . In Marine Animal Forests . Springer .
Turner, J.A.; Andradi-Brown, D.A.; Gori, A.; Bongaerts, P.; Burdett, H.L.; Ferrier-Pagès, C.; Voolstra, C.R.; Weinstein, D.K.; Bridge, T.; Costantini, F.; Gress, E.; Laverick, J.; Loya, Y.; Goodbody-Gringley, G.; Rossi, S.; Taylor, M.L.; Viladrich, N.; Voss, J.; Williams, J.; Woodall, L.C.; Eyal, G. (2019). Key questions for research and conservation of mesophotic coral ecosystems and temperate mesophotic ecosystems . In Mesophotic Coral Ecosystems . Springer .
Orejas, C.; Jiménez, C.; Gori, A.; Rivera, J.; Lo Iacono, C.; Aurelle, D.; Hadjioannou, L.; Petrou, A.; Achilleos, K.; Zibrowius, H. (2019). Corals of Aphrodite, Dendrophyllia ramea communities of Cyprus . In Mediterranean Cold-water Corals: Past, Present and Future . Springer .
Gori, A.; Grinyó, J.; Dominguez-Carrió, C.; Ambroso, S.; López-González, P.; Gili, J.M.; Bavestrello, G.; Bo, M. (2019). Gorgonian and black coral assemblages in deep coastal bottoms and continental shelves of the Mediterranean Sea . In Mediterranean Cold-water Corals: Past, Present and Future . Springer .