The polychaete worm Sabellaria alveolata builds shallow-water aggregates of tubes by agglutinating sands using a secreted glue. Sabellarid bioconstructions represent fragile and …
The Sabellaridae, or sandcastle worms, are a family of polychaete annelids that live inside agglutinated sandy tubes, in shallow sea beds where they initially grow by adhering to a …
1.1 BACKGROUND Coastal zones can be defined as the transition areas that connect terrestrial and marine environments. They are planet's most productive and valued …
The aim of this Ph. D. thesis was to investigate the evolution of the coastline within the Gulf of Gela (Southern Sicily, Italy), applying, for the first time, a combined methodology that …
SUMMARY Coastal waders (Aves Charadriiformes) in the Gulf of Gela (Sicily). Since 2011 to 2016 a monitor-ing of coastal waders in the central-southern Sicily has been carried out …