RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Peer-reviewed Publications – International Peer-reviewed Publications 2000 -2022
Djebbi E., Daly Yahia M.N., Farcy E., Pringault O. and Bonnet D., 2022. Acute and chronic toxicity assessments of 17β-estradiol (E2) and 17α-ethinylestradiol (EE2) on the calanoid copepod Acartia clausi: effects on survival, development, sex-ratio and reproduction.  Sci Total Environ 807. 150845. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.150845
Makhlouf Belkahia N., Pagano M., Chevalier C., Devenon J.L. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2021. Zooplankton abundance and community structure driven by tidal currents in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon (Boughrara, Tunisia, SW Mediterranean Sea). Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science 250. 107101. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2020.107101
Marambio M., Canepa A., Lòpez L., Gauci A.A., Gueroun S.K.M, Zampardi S., Boero F., Kéfi-Daly Yahia O., Daly Yahia M.N., Fuentes V., Piraino S. and Deidun A., 2021. Unfolding Jellyfish Bloom Dynamics along the Mediterranean Basin by Transnational Citizen Science Initiatives. MDPI Diversity, 13, 274.  https://doi.org/10.3390/d13060274
Djebbi E., Bonnet D., Pringault O., Tlili K. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2021. Effects of nickel oxide nanoparticles on survival, reproduction, and oxidative stress biomarkers in the marine calanoid cope calanoid copepod Centropages ponticus under short-term exposure. Environmental Science and Pollution Research. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-020-11781-1
Lebrato M., Garbe-Schönberga D., Müllerb M.N., Blanco-Ameijeirasc S.,Feelyd R.A., Lorenzonie L., Molinero J.C., Bremera K., Jonesg D.O.B., Iglesias-Rodriguezh D., Greeleyd D., Lamarei M.D., Paulmierj A., Gracoj M., Cartesk J., Ramosl J.B., Laram A., Sanchez-Lealn R., Jimenezn P., Paparazzoo F.E., Hartmang S.E., Westernströera U., Kütera M., Benavides R., da Silvap A.F., Bellq S., Payner C., Olafsdottirs S., Robinsont K., Jantunenu L.M., Korablevv L., Websterw R.J., Jonesx E.M., Gilgy O., Bailly du Boisz P., Beldowskiaa J., Ashjianb C., Daly Yahia M.N., Twiningd B., Chenee X., Tsengff L., Hwang J., Dahmsh H. and Oschlies A., 2020. Global variability in seawater Mg:Ca and Sr:Ca ratios in the modern ocean. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (PNAS), 12. www.pnas.org/cgi/doi/10.1073/pnas.1918943117
Hussain MB, Laabir M, Daly Yahia M.N., 2020. A novel index based on planktonic copepod reproductive traits as a tool for marine ecotoxicology studies. Sci Total Environ 727:138621.  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138621.
Gueroun S.M.K., Molinero J.C., Piraino S. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2020. Population dynamics and predatory impact of the alien jellyfish Aurelia solida (Cnidaria, Scyphozoa) in the Bizerte Lagoon (southwestern Mediterranean Sea). Mediterranean Marine Sciences. DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.12681/mms.17358
Ramírez-Romero E., Molinero J.C., Sommer U., Salhi N., Kefi – Daly Yahia O. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2020. Phytoplankton size changes and diversity loss parallel rising temperatures in the southwestern Mediterranean Sea. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 235 (106574).  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2019.106574
Ben Gharbia H., Laabir M., Ben Mhamed A., Gueroun S.K.M., Daly Yahia M.N., Nouri H., M’Rabet C., Shili A., and Kéfi-Daly Yahia O., 2019. Occurrence of epibenthic dinoflagellates in relation to biotic substrates and to environmental factors in Southern Mediterranean (Bizerte Bay and Lagoon, Tunisia): an emphasis on the harmful Ostreopsis spp., Prorocentrum lima and Coolia monotis. Harmful Algae, 90 (101704).  https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hal.2019.101704
Salhi N., Zmerli-Triki, H., Molinero J.C., Laabir M., Sehli E., Bellaaj-Zouari A., Daly Yahia M.N. and Kefi-Daly Yahia O., 2018. Seasonal variability of picophytoplankton under contrasting environments in northern Tunisian coasts, southwestern Mediterranean Sea. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 129: 866-874.
Balistreri P., Spiga, A., Deidun A., Gueroun S.K.M. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2017. Further spread of the venomous jellyfish Rhopilema nomadica Galil, Spannier & Ferguson, 1990 (Rhizostomeae, Rhizostomatidae) in the western Mediterranean. BioInvasions Records. 6 (1): 19-24.
Ensibi, C., Mrabet C., Chalghaf M. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2017. Antioxidant enzyme activity and lipid peroxidation in gills of fish (Sparus aurata) upon exposure to swarms of Pelagia noctiluca. Aquaculture Int. 25 (2): 555-565.
Ensibi, C. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2017. Toxicity assessment of cadmium chloride on planktonic copepods Centropages ponticus using biochemical markers. Toxicology Reports. 4 : 83-88.
Hidouri, S., Ensibi, C., Landoulsi, A. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2017. Effects of chronic exposure to silver nanoparticles on Ruditaped decussatus gills using biochemical markers. Water Air Soil Pollution. 228 (2), 79. DOI 10.1007/s11270-017-3265-0.
Bosch-Belmar M., Mrabet C., Dhaouadi R., Chalghaf M., Daly Yahia M.N., Fuentes V., Piraino S. and Kefi-Daly Yahia O., 2016. Jellyfish Stings Trigger Gill Disorders and Increased Mortality in Farmed Sparus aurata (Linnaeus, 1758) in the Mediterranean Sea. PLOS One DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0154239.
Gueroun S. K. M., Acevedo M. J., Kéfi-Daly Yahia O., Deidun A., Fuentes V. L., Piraino S. and Daly Yahia M. N., 2015. First records of Carybdea marsupialis proliferation (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) along the eastern Tunisian coast (Central Mediterranean). Italian Journal of Zoology, 82:3, 430-435, DOI: 10.1080/11250003.2015.1045945.
Ben Lamine Y., Pringault O., Aissi M., Ensibi C., Mahmoudi E., Daly Yahia-Kefi O. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2015. Environmental controlling factors of copepod communities in the Gulf of Tunis (South Western Mediterranean Sea). Cahier de Biologie Marine. 56 : 213-229.
Ensibi C., Gueroun, S.K.M., and Daly Yahia M.N., 2015. Effects of cadmium treatment on larval mortality and settlement success of the scyphomedusae Aurelia aurita. GERF Bulletin of Biosciences. 6(2): 2229-6433.
Ensibi, C., Pringault, O., Hannaoui, W. and Daly Yahia, M.N.  2015. Effects of Cadmium Exposure on Reproduction and Survival of the Planktonic Copepod Centropages ponticus. Marine Sci Res Dev. 5(1):  2155-9910. Ensibi, C., Lahbib, K., Mrabet, CH. and Daly Yahia, M.N., 2015. Antioxidant activity of Aplysia depilans collected from Bizerte Channel (NE Tunisia). Algerian Journal of Natural Products 3:1.  138-145.
Aïssi M., Arcangeli A., Crosti R., Daly Yahia M. N., Loussaief B., Moulins A., Pellegrino G., Rosso M., Tringali L. M. and Tepsich P., 2015. Cetacean Occurrence and Spatial Distribution in the Central Mediterranean Sea Using Ferries as Platform of Observation. Russian Journal of Marine Biology 41 (5): 343–350.
Necibi M., Mzoughia N., Daly Yahia M.N. and Pringault O., 2015. Distributions of organochlorine pesticides and polychlorinated biphenyl in surface water from Bizerte Lagoon, Tunisia. Desalination and Water Treatment 56 (10): 2663-2671.
Aissi M., Touzri C., Gueroun SKM, Kefi-Daly Yahia O. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2014. Persistent occurrence and life cycle of Pelagia noctiluca in the channel of Bizerte (Northern Tunisia). Eco. Env. & Cons. 20 (4) : 1453-1460.
Ensibi C., Soler-Rodriguez F., Miguez-Santiyan M.P., Perez-Lopez M., Daly Yahia M.N. and Hernandez-Moreno D., 2014. Zn(II), Pb(II) and Cd(II) levels in livers and muscles of wild duck (Anas plathyrynchos) hunting in El Melah Lagoon (NE Tunisia). Algerian Journal of Natural Products 2/3: 98-104.
Gueroun, S.K.M., Kefi-Daly Yahia, O., Deidun, A., Fuentes, V., Piraino, S. and Daly Yahia, M.N. 2014. First record and potential trophic impact of Phyllorhiza punctata (Cnidaria : Scyphozoa) along the north Tunisian coast (South Western Mediterranean Sea). Italian Journal of Zoology. 82:1, 95-100, DOI: 10.1080/11250003.2014.981306.
Neffati N., Daly Yahia – Kefi O., Bonnet D., Carlotti F. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2013. Reproductive traits of two calanoid copepods : Centropages ponticus and Temora stylifera, in autumn in Bizerte Channel., 2012. Journal of Plankton Research.January/February 35 (1): 80-96.doi: 10.1093/plankt/fbs071.
Ensibi, C., Perez-Lopez, M., Soler-Rodriguez, F., Miguez-Santiyan, M.P., Daly Yahia, M.N. and Hernandez-Moreno, D., 2013. Effects of deltamethrin on biometric parameters and liver biomarkers in common carp (Cyprinus carpio L.). Environmental Toxicology and Pharmacology 36: 384-391.
Daly Yahia M.N., Kefi-Daly Yahia O., Gueroun, S.K.M., Aissi M., Deidun A., Fuentes V. and Piraino S., 2013. The invasive tropical scyphozoan Rhopilema nomadica Galil, 1990 reaches the Tunisian coast of the Mediterranean Sea. BioInvasions Records. 2 (4): 319-323.
Touzri C., Hamdi H., Goy J. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2012. Diversity and Distribution of the Gelatinous zooplankton in the south western Mediterranean Sea. Marine Ecology 33 (4): 393-529. DOI: 10.1111/j.1439-0485.2012.00510.x.
Bonnet D., Molinero J.C., Schohn T. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2012. Seasonal changes in the population dynamics of Aurelia aurita in Thau lagoon. Cahier de Biologie Marine. 53 : 343-347.
Annabi-Trabelsi N., Daly Yahia M.N., Belmonte G., Aleya L. and Ayadi H., 2012. Impacts of very warm temperature on egg production rates of three Acartiidae (Crustacea, Copepoda) in a Northern African lagoon. Journal of Thermal Biology. 37: 445-453.
Ensibi, C., D. Hernandez-Moreno, M. P. Miguez Santiyan, M. N. Daly Yahia, F. Soler Rodriguez and M. Perez-Lopez, 2012. “Effects of carbofuran and deltamethrin on acetylcholinesterase activity in brain and muscle of the common carp.” Environmental Toxicology 29(4): 386-393.
Licandro P., Conway D.V.P., Daly Yahia M.N., Fernandez De Puelles M.L., Gasparini S., Hecq J.H., Tranter P. and Kirby R.R., 2010. A blooming jellyfish in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean. Biology Letters 6(5): 688-91. doi: 10.1098/rsbl.2010.0150.
Touzri C., Kefi-Daly Yahia O., Hamdi H., Goy J. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2010. Spatio-temporal distribution of Medusae (Cnidaria) in the Bay of Bizerte (South Western Mediterranean Sea). Cahier de Biologie Marine 51: 167-176.
Molinero J.C., Vukanic V., Lucic D., Ibanez F., Nival P., Licandro P., Calbet A., Christou E.D., Daly Yahia M.N., Fernandez De Puelles M.L., Mazocchi M.G. and Siokou-Frangou I., 2009. Mediterranean marine copepods: basin-scale trends of the calanoid Centropages typicus. Hydrobiologia. 617: 41-53. DOI 10.1007/s10750-008-9524-8
Bellakhal M., Daly Yahia – Kefi O., Bellakhal – Fartouna M. et Daly Yahia M.N., 2009. Effet d’une pollution thermique et d’une eutrophisation côtière sur la distribution du phytoplancton de la Baie de Sousse, Tunisie. REDVET- Revista Electronica de Veterinaria. 10 (9). ISSN: 1695 – 7504. (http://www.veterinaria.org/revistas/redvet/n090909.html).
Annabi-Trabelsi N. and Daly Yahia M. N., 2009. Centropages kroyeri egg production rate as a function of lagoon summer conditions. Thalassia Sal., 32: 17–27.
Souissi A., Souissi S. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2008. Temporal variability of abundance and reproductive traits of Centropages kroyeri (Calanoida, Copepoda) in Bizerte Channel (SW Mediterranean Sea, Tunisia). Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology 355: 125-136.
Addad S., Daly Yahia M.N., Belghith H., Zamamouch S., Goy J. and Daly Yahia – Kefi O., 2008. Analyse taxinomique, écologique et caractérisation biochimique des scyphoméduses de la Baie de Bizerte et de Tunis (Juillet – Décembre 2004). Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France. 133 (1-3): 33 – 41.
Khelifi – Touhami M., Semroud R., Hamdi H., Ounissi M., Haridi A., Daly Yahia M.N. and Aissa P., 2007. The planktonic copepod communities from the southern Mediterranean Sea (Algeria, Tunisia) with a re-description of Paracalanus indicus Wolfenden 1905 (Copepoda: Calanoida). Cahier de Biologie Marine 48: 327 – 337.
Daly Yahia – Kefi O., Souissi S., De Stefano M. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2005. Bellerochea horologicalis and Lithodesmioides polymorpha var. tunisiense var. nov. (Coscinodiscophyceae, Bacillariophyta) in the Bay of Tunis: ultrastructural observations and spatio-temporal distribution. Botanica Marina 48: 58 – 72.
Bonnet D., Richardson A., Harris R., Hirst A., Beaugrand G., Edwards M., Ceballos S., Diekman R., Lopez-Urrutia A., Valdes L., Carlotti F., Molinero J.C., Weikert H., Greve W., Lucic D., Albaina A., Daly Yahia M.N., Fonda-Umani S., Miranda A., Dos Santos A., Cook K., Robinson S. and Fernandez De Puelles M.L., 2005. An overview of Calanus helgolandicus ecology in European waters. Progress in Oceanography, 65 : 1 – 53.
Daly Yahia- Kéfi O., Souissi S., Fernando G. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2005.  Effect of nutrient disturbances on the microphytoplankton structure in the Bay of Tunis (SW Mediterranean Sea). Mediterranean Marine Science, Vol 6/1 : 17-34.
Daly Yahia M.N., Daly Yahia – Kefi O., Souissi S., Maamouri F. and Aissa P., 2005. Etude des associations spécifiques Tintinnides (Ciliophora, Tintinnina) – Dinoflagellés (Dinophyceae) au niveau de la baie de Tunis et de deux lagunes associées: Ghar El Melh et Tunis Sud. La Mer (Revue Franco_ Japonaise), 42 (3): 19-32.
Annebi-Trabelsi N., Daly Yahia M.N., Romdhane M.S., and Ben Maiz N. 2005. Short-term and seasonal variability of planktonic copepods in Tunis North Lagoon (Tunisia, North Africa). Cahier de Biologie Marine 46: 1 – 9. Daly Yahia M.N., Souissi S., and Daly Yahia- Kéfi O., 2004. Spatio-temporal structure of planktonic copepods in the Bay of Tunis (South Western Mediterranean Sea). Zoological studies 43 (2): 8 – 19
Touzri C., Daly Yahia M.N. and Goy J., 2004. Le Plancton Gélatineux de la Baie de Sousse (Méditerranée Méridionale): Systématique et Ecologie. Bulletin de la Société Zoologique de France 129 (4): 379 – 392.
Daly Yahia M.N., Goy J. and Daly Yahia – Kefi O., 2003. Distribution et écologie des Méduses (Cnidaria) du golfe de Tunis (Méditerranée sud occidentale). Oceanologica Acta. 26: 645 – 655.
Annabi-Trabelsi N., Trabelsi E.B., Daly Yahia M.N., Ben Maiz N. and Romdhane M.S. Preliminary evaluation of trophic state of the North Lake of Tunis waters (Application of the trophic index TRIX). 2003. Water, Waste and Environment Research 4 (1-2): 39 – 46.
Daly Yahia- Kéfi O., Nezan E. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2001. Sur la présence du genre Alexandrium Halim dans la Baie de Tunis (Tunisie). Oceanologica Acta. 24 (S):17-25.
Souissi S., Daly Yahia-Kefi O. and Daly Yahia M.N., 2000. Spatial characterization of nutrient dynamics in the Bay of Tunis (south-western Mediterranean) using multivariate analyses: consequences for phyto- and zooplankton distribution. Journal of Plankton Research 22 (11): 2039-2059.