A5007824632- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Coral and Marine Ecosystems Studies
- Marine Ecology and Invasive Species
- Marine and environmental studies
- Diffusion and Search Dynamics
- Coastal and Marine Management
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Animal Behavior and Reproduction
- Identification and Quantification in Food
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Micro and Nano Robotics
- Marine Toxins and Detection Methods
- Protist diversity and phylogeny
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Marine animal studies overview
- Land Use and Ecosystem Services
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Marine Invertebrate Physiology and Ecology
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Diverse academic and cultural studies
Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn
2015-2025
The annual cycle of plankton was studied over 14 years from 1984 to 2000 at a coastal station in the Gulf Naples, with aim assessing seasonal patterns and interannual trends.Phytoplankton biomass started increasing water column February-early March, generally achieved peak values upper layers late spring.Another often recorded autumn.Diatoms phytoflagellates dominated for largest part year.Ciliates showed their main peaks phase phytoplankton were mainly represented by small (< 30 µm) naked...
Abstract Predicting responses of plankton to variations in essential nutrients is hampered by limited situ measurements, a poor understanding community composition, and the lack reference gene catalogs for key taxa. Iron driver dynamics and, therefore, global biogeochemical cycles climate. To assess impact iron availability on communities, we explored comprehensive bio‐oceanographic bio‐omics data sets from Tara Oceans context products two state‐of‐the‐art scale models. We obtained novel...
The Anthropocene is characterized by dramatic ecosystem changes driven human activities. impact of these activities can be assessed different geochemical and paleontological proxies. However, each proxies provides only a fragmentary insight into the effects anthropogenic impacts. It highly challenging to reconstruct, with holistic view, state ecosystems from preindustrial period present day, covering all biological components, prokaryotes multicellular eukaryotes. Here, we used sedimentary...
Abstract Spread of alien species (AS) is a serious threat to marine habitats and analysis principal descriptors their occurrence pivotal set reliable conservation strategies. In order assess the susceptibility biological invasions, dataset was gathered 3899 from 29 phyla, taken 93 sites located along Italian coast in period 2000–2012. total, 61 AS belonging 11 phyla have been recorded. Invertebrates were most represented (63%). Alien found all examined (EUNIS, level 2), although they showed...
Plankton are a pivotal component of the diversity and functioning coastal marine ecosystems. A long time-series observations is best tool to trace their patterns variability over multiple scales, ultimately providing sound foundation for assessing, modelling predicting effects anthropogenic natural environmental changes on pelagic communities. At same time, constitutes formidable asset different kinds research specific questions that emerge from observations, whereby results these...
Abstract Long‐term ecological research has revealed the impact of climate on marine ecosystems at multiple time scales. Changes in pelagic system have been detected LTER‐MC site Gulf Naples (Tyrrhenian Sea, western Mediterranean) since 1984. Here we analyzed series to determine whether zooplankton had significantly changed over three decades 1984–2015. In addition seasonal cycle as main mode temporal variability, observed long‐term trends functional groups and species. Copepods, most...
Coastal zooplankton have been investigated since 1984 at a Long Term Ecological Research station MC (LTER-MC) in the inner Gulf of Naples (Tyrrhenian Sea, Western Mediterranean). The sampling site, located between littoral and open sea systems, has very active hydrography that affects plankton communities. present work was aimed establishing whether, such dynamic variable environment, species associations homogeneous periods could be identified as characteristic stable features...
Abstract Dispersal plays a key role to connect populations and, if limited, is one of the main processes maintain and generate regional biodiversity. According neutral theories molecular evolution biodiversity, dispersal limitation propagules population stochasticity are integral shaping both genetic community structure. We conducted parallel analysis biological connectivity at levels in marine groups with different traits. compiled large data sets structure (98 benthic macroinvertebrate 35...
Abstract Metabarcoding of environmental DNA has provided striking insights into marine microbial diversity. With this approach, we assessed the diversity metazoan assemblages and their temporal variations at Long-Term Ecological Research site MareChiara (LTER-MC) in Gulf Naples (Mediterranean Sea). The Illumina sequencing V4-18S rRNA fragment from 48 surface samples collected 2011 to 2013 produced a total 5 011 047 reads. normalized dataset was generally dominated by copepods (60.3%),...
PERSEUS project aims to identify the most relevant pressures exerted on ecosystems of Southern European Seas (SES), highlighting knowledge and data gaps that endanger achievement SES Good Environmental Status (GES) as mandated by Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD). A complementary approach has been adopted, a meta-analysis existing literature pressure/impact/knowledge summarized in tables related MSFD descriptors, discriminating open waters from coastal areas. comparative assessment...
Abstract Copepods of the genus Clausocalanus Giesbrecht, 1888 are among most abundant calanoids in Mediterranean Sea, both coastal and offshore regions. The vertical distribution C. arcuicornis, furcatus, jobei, lividus, mastigophorus, parapergens, paululus, pergens, which co-occur upper 200 m Gulf Naples (Tyrrhenian Sea), was investigated during an annual sampling cycle conducted at station 2002. quantitative data on each species were analysed relation to environmental parameters. patterns...
Abstract The internal organization of plankton communities plays a key role in biogeochemical cycles and the functioning aquatic ecosystems. In this study, structure marine community (including both unicellular multicellular organisms) was inferred by applying an ecological network approach to species abundances observed weekly at long‐term research station M are C hiara ( LTER ‐ MC ) G ulf N aples T yrrhenian S ea, editerranean ea) summers 2002–2009. Two distinct conditions, characterized...
Copepods dominate marine zooplankton in abundance and play key roles pelagic food webs. These small crustaceans show high taxonomic functional diversity. Although there has been considerable research on their taxonomy, only a few studies have focused traits. In this study, we analyzed the traits of 95 copepod species, considering body size, trophic regime, feeding behavior, spawning strategy. Based samples collected during two surveys (autumn 2020 summer 2021) located coastal waters three...
We compare the long-term and seasonal patterns of abundance phenology cyclopoid copepod Oithona similis at L4 site (1988–2013) in North Atlantic LTER-MC (1984–2013) Mediterranean Sea to investigate whether high temperature limits occurrence this species with latitudinal cline. The two sites are well suited testing hypothesis as they characterized by similar chlorophyll a concentration (Chl a) but different [sea surface (SST)]. O. was ∼10 times higher than LTER-MC. Moreover, had several peaks...