• Processes of decomposition of organic detritus in aquatic environments and their interconnections with the streets of grazing.
• Ecological implications of body size measures: theoretical aspects and applications to bio-monitoring of health status of aquatic freshwater and marine systems.
• Mechanisms of organization of phytoplankton communities of coastal marine and transitional ecosystems: the role of the mechanisms of coexistence related to individual body size.

His studies on aquatic ecosystems with functional and evolutionary approach, have produced more than 100 scientific publications, some of which the most 'prestigious international journals in ecology, as Aquatic Conservation, Ecology, Ecological modeling, Estuarine Coastal and Shelf Science, Evolution, Functional Ecology; Hydrobiologia, Oecologia, Oikos.

In the past year review of work performed for the following international journals: Ecology Letter, Marine Ecology Progress Series, Oikos, Aquatic Conservation, Hydrobiologia. It 'Editor-in-Chief of the journals Transitional Transitional Water and Water Bulletin Monographs.

Institutional Activities

• Coordinator of the PhD in Fundamental Ecology of the University of Salento
• Coordinator of Science in Ecology at the University of Salento
• Responsible for Programming in Objective INTERREG for the University of Salento
• Scientific Director of the Master's Degree Level 2 "Expert in monitoring, conservation and management of aquatic environments in transition and coastal spatial planning"