Marine litter is a major form of pollution in the Mediterranean, but despite legislative
requirements, additional information is still needed to evaluate basin-scale amounts, trends …

Nineteen benthic polychaete species were recorded for the first time in the intertidal zone of
the Alexandria coast, south-eastern Mediterranean Sea. They belong to Syllidae (7 species) …

Saltworks are interesting sites for aquatic ecology, where marine phytoplankton plays a
fundamental role in regulating ecosystem processes and sustaining large-scale biodiversity …

Coal plants can be a major source of mutagenic pollutants. In this study we used the
common land snail Helix aspersa, to detect the mutagenic effect of pollution from a coal …

Environmental stress can promote evolutionary forces and genetic divergence, but at which
microgeographic scale divergence may arise, even in the presence of gene flow, remains …

Background Despite the plethora of approaches, the sensitivity of the methods to measure
the relationship between the abundance and biomass curves in stressed detritus-based …

Habitat choice is defined as a nonrandom distribution of genotypes in different
microhabitats. Therefore, it could exert a great impact on the genetic variance of natural …

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the contribution of salinity, irradiance, nitrate and
phosphate, and their interactions into the yield of cell number and β-carotene accumulation …

The purpose of the study was to evaluate the contribution of salinity, irradiance, nitrate and
phosphate, and their interactions into the yield of cell number and β-carotene accumulation …

Obiettivo di questo lavoro di tesi è stato lo studio delle comunità batteriche presenti nelle
acque delle Saline di Tarquinia, Viterbo (Italia) attraverso metodi colturali e coltura …