Carlo Giacomo Avio

Carlo Giacomo Avio's indexed work centers on microplastic pollution in marine organisms and food webs, with a strong Adriatic and Mediterranean focus. His most-cited first-author study examined pollutant bioavailability and toxicological risk from microplastics to marine mussels (1,414 citations), establishing an ecotoxicological framing that recurs across his output. A companion protocol for extracting and characterizing microplastics in fish tissues (799 citations) helped standardize tissue-level analysis in commercial species, while later work traced microplastic particles and textile microfibers through Adriatic food webs to inform biomonitoring strategies. Beyond these lead-author studies, Avio contributed as a co-author to the Mediterranean Plastic Soup survey of synthetic polymers in surface waters and to research on microplastics as vehicles of environmental PAHs to Mediterranean mussels, linking contamination to combined chemical and physical hazards. His portfolio otherwise consists of indexed journal articles and book chapters rather than named software, datasets, or patents. Taken together, the works trace a consistent line from method development and organism-level toxicology toward food-web and biomonitoring applications.