This study provides an overview of 11 lagoons in North Africa, from the Atlantic to the
Eastern Mediterranean. Lagoons are complex, transitional, coastal zones providing valuable …

Lagoons play an important socio-economic role and represent a precious natural heritage at
risk from fishing pressure and chemical and biological pollution. Our research focused on …

The fish assemblages in the Marchica lagoon were studied in June 2015, by purse seine
netting, according to a systematic sampling design of 32 stations covering the whole lagoon …

In coastal lagoons, many studies indicated that macrozoobenthic assemblages undergo
marked temporal fluctuations as related to the strong environmental variability of these …

Based on the most recent scientific data, and without neglecting historical publications,
Fishes in Lagoons and Estuaries in the Mediterranean 3 comprehensively details …

This aim of this paper was the study of the reproductive biology and growth of the sand
smelt, Atherina boyeri, in Mellah Lagoon (Algeria). These data are important for the …

Background. Southern Mediterranean lagoons are poorly studied. The Mellah Lagoon is the
only coastal lagoon in Algeria. Characterized by low anthropogenic pressure it has a crucial …

Studies focusing on patterns of spatial variation in marine soft-bottom assemblages suggest
that variability is mainly concentrated at small spatial scale (from tens of centimeters to few …

Morphological variation of Lithognathus mormyrus (Linnaeus, 1758) samples harvested in
six Mediterranean lagoons was investigated using 23 truss elements and 11 conventional …

Background. Due to their location between the continent and the sea and their shallow
depths, lagoons play an important ecological role in coastal ecosystems by providing a …