A5090007547- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Heavy metals in environment
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Toxic Organic Pollutants Impact
- Maritime and Coastal Archaeology
- Marine and environmental studies
- Methane Hydrates and Related Phenomena
- Environmental Toxicology and Ecotoxicology
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Marine and fisheries research
- Microbial Community Ecology and Physiology
- Environmental DNA in Biodiversity Studies
- Geochemistry and Elemental Analysis
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Mercury impact and mitigation studies
- Microbial bioremediation and biosurfactants
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Geological formations and processes
- Marine and coastal plant biology
- Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Algal biology and biofuel production
- Groundwater and Isotope Geochemistry
- Microplastics and Plastic Pollution
Istituto di Scienze Marine del Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche
2015-2024
National Research Council
2013-2024
Institute of Structure of Matter
2008-2022
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2003-2007
Prokaryotes in coastal sediments are fundamental players the ecosystem functioning and regulate processes relevant global biogeochemical cycles. Nevertheless, knowledge on benthic microbial diversity patterns across spatial scales, or as function to anthropogenic influence, is still limited. We investigated two of most chemically polluted sites along coast Italy. One site Po River Prodelta (Northern Adriatic Sea), which receives contaminant discharge from one largest rivers Europe. The other...
Abstract Estimating the effects and timing of anthropogenic impacts on composition macrobenthic communities is challenging, because early twentieth-century surveys are sparse corresponding intervals in sedimentary sequences mixed by bioturbation. Here, to assess eutrophication northern Adriatic Sea, we account for mixing with dating bivalve Corbula gibba at two stations high accumulation (Po prodelta) one station moderate (Isonzo prodelta). We find that, first, pervasively bioturbated muds...
Spatial and temporal variations of phytoplankton community structure were studied in the Gulf Venice (Northern Adriatic Sea) from February 1999 to December 2001 (INTERREG II, Italia–Slovenia project). Phytoplankton samples collected, with a monthly frequency, at 11 stations basin. Abundance, biomass, species composition considered. Synthetic descriptors used order evaluate main succession pattern cluster communities that typify different hydrological conditions. A decreasing gradient...
Abstract This paper reports on the main biogeochemical properties of Northern Adriatic Sea in period May 2003–November 2006 within framework European program INTERREG III Italy‐Slovenia. Spatial and temporal distributions water density, dissolved oxygen, nutrients (nitrogen, phosphorous silicon) chlorophyll a are presented. Multivariate methods such as fuzzy k‐means, self‐organising maps cluster analysis were used to identify different masses characterise spatial variability features present...
The shallow northern Adriatic Sea has a long history of anthropogenic impacts that reaches back many centuries. While the effects eutrophication, overfishing, pollution, and trawling over recent decades have been extensively studied, major ecological turnovers during Holocene as whole remain poorly explored. In this study, we reconstruct baselines defining benthic ecosystem composition prior to changes at four stations characterized by low sedimentation millennial-scale time averaging...
During the second half of twentieth century, coastal lagoons in densely populated regions experienced eutrophication due to excessive nutrient inputs. Detrimental effects, including hypoxia/anoxia and harmful algae blooms, have occurred many Mediterranean lagoons, but their trophic evolution is poorly documented. The lack adequate monitoring data can partly be offset by examining sedimentary records. In Mar Piccolo, a lagoon comprising two basins near Taranto (Italy), has followed population...
Abstract Meteorological and oceanographic conditions in the Northern Adriatic Sea a year notable for massive mucilage formation (2004) were compared with those years where this phenomenon did not occur (2003, 2005 2006) to suggest possible links. The months preceding event 2004 considered ‘incubation period’ characterized by strong freshet May which increased water column stability. Winter cooling scarcity of freshwater inputs from Po River triggered dense intrusion northern basin. Weak...
Abstract. In this paper we describe a 50-year (1965–2015) ecological database containing data collected in the northern Adriatic Sea (NAS) at one of 25 research parent sites belonging to Italian Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER-Italy, http://www.lteritalia.it, last access: February 2020). LTER-Italy is formal member International (https://www.ilter.network, 2020) and European (http://www.lter-europe.net/, LTER networks. The NAS undergoing process, led by different institutions...
The Venice canal network requires periodic intervention to remove sediments that progressively accumulate. most recent dredging operation was carried out in the second half of 1990s and early 2000s. These had accumulated over a period more than 30 years were highly contaminated with Cd, Cu, Hg, Pb, Zn PAHs. Sediments deposited after work investigated 2005, 2009, 2014 2017 by analysing sediment cores collected from three sites network. Arsenic, heavy metal PAH concentrations observed be much...
From October 2020, the MOSE system went into operation in three inlets to protect Venice and its lagoon from flooding caused by high tide events Adriatic Sea. While increases prospect of physical defense, how will new status a regulated affect functioning waterbody? In particular, dissolved oxygen balance water column can be affected expected increase residence times. Sediments play an important role consumption for this reason sediment demand (SOD) was studied situ first time, 16 sites at...