Seagrass meadows are considered to be among the most important marine ecosystems,
with regard to both ecology and biodiversity and for the services they provide. Seven …

Some species of seagrasses (eg, Zostera marina and Posidonia oceanica) have declined in
the Mediterranean, at least locally. Others are progressing, helped by sea warming, such as …

The present study investigates the different uses and the functional roles of shallow habitats
for fish fauna in the Venice Lagoon, by applying the functional guilds approach. Temporal …

AbstrACt Analysis of the Venice Lagoon responses to changing morphological features,
freshwater discharges, nutrient loads, fishing activities, and other factors shows that this …

The paper reports the results obtained after 4 years of aquatic angiosperm transplants in
areas of the Venice Lagoon (North Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean) where meadows almost …

This paper aims at comparing inedited maps of macrophytes and phytoplankton distribution
in the lagoon of Venice in 1980 and 2003. The macrophyte distribution is displayed with …

The macrophyte quality index (MaQI) for the assessment of the ecological status of
transitional systems has been recently adopted by the Italian Law in agreement with the …

We present a check-list of the seaweeds for Venice lagoon, based on literature and recent
records. At present the total number of taxa is 277, including 71 Chlorophyceae sl (25.6%) …

A habitat approach was promoted in the framework of ecological status assessment of
transitional waters, assuming the importance of habitat heterogeneity to the overall system …

Plant populations distributed along broad latitudinal gradients often show patterns of clinal
variation in genotype and phenotype. Differences in photoperiod and temperature cues …