Coastal lagoons are considered among the marine habitats with the highest biological
productivity, and support a great variety of human activities and pressures that make them …

In recent times many benthic indices have been proposed to assess the ecological quality of
marine waters worldwide. In this study we compared single metrics and multi-metric …

Lagoon environments, like all the marine-coastal areas, offer a wide variety of ecosystem
services, but at the same time are affected by pressing human activities that lead to …

Patterns of phytoplankton size spectra variation with gradients of environmental stress have
been observed in freshwater, transitional waters and marine ecosystems, driving the …

Marine litter levels were measured in the stomach contents, hepatopancreas, and gonad
tissues of crustacea decapod (Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896; n= 6), a widespread alien …

Biology of European Seabass presents up-to-date reviews on key topics of seabass biology,
written by leading scientific experts with extensive knowledge of seabass as well as their …

The success of a monitoring programme depends on the precision and accuracy of
assessment tools, on the costs of sampling and laboratory procedures, on the time lag …

The European sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax (Linnaeus 1758)) is among the most
abundant and exploited fish species found off European coasts. It is also one of the more …

Benthic macrophyte communities of different substratum types (soft, hard) were studied in
eleven differently impacted sites belonging in two different water typologies (transitional …

In summer 2012, an experiment was conducted in a shallow eutrophic lagoon with poor
water exchange to determine the consequences of harvesting algae on the algal mat itself …