A5067702089- Aquatic Ecosystems and Phytoplankton Dynamics
- Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Fish Ecology and Management Studies
- Soil and Water Nutrient Dynamics
- Water Quality and Pollution Assessment
- Isotope Analysis in Ecology
- Aquatic Invertebrate Ecology and Behavior
- Freshwater macroinvertebrate diversity and ecology
- Flood Risk Assessment and Management
- Water Quality Monitoring and Analysis
- Hydrology and Watershed Management Studies
- Hydrology and Sediment Transport Processes
- Water resources management and optimization
- Geology and Paleoclimatology Research
- Remote Sensing in Agriculture
- Medical Research and Treatments
- Remote-Sensing Image Classification
- Geochemistry and Geologic Mapping
- Ecology and biodiversity studies
- Marine Biology and Ecology Research
- Transboundary Water Resource Management
- Fire effects on ecosystems
- Aquatic Ecosystems and Biodiversity
- Spectroscopy and Chemometric Analyses
- Environmental Science and Water Management
Joint Research Centre
2007-2024
Istituto per il Rilevamento Elettromagnetico dell'Ambiente
2020-2024
Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes
2022-2024
National Research Council
2020-2023
Environmental Protection Agency
2012-2020
National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine
2020
Environmental Protection Agency
2012
A global survey of 179 restoration practitioners spanning 65 countries identified the extent stakeholder engagement as a key factor determining success or failure projects. Lack support across sectors and for funding, policy, monitoring, governance knowledge assessment pressures their effects were most frequently cited factors contributing to failure. The responses indicate that, although nutrient enrichment is perceived be primary issue lakes globally, impacts climate change, hydrological...
European water policy has identified eutrophication as a priority issue for management. Substantial progress been made in combating but open issues remain, including setting reliable and meaningful nutrient criteria supporting 'good' ecological status of the Water Framework Directive. The paper introduces novel methodological approach - set four different methods that can be applied to ecosystems stressors derive empirically-based management targets. include Ranged Major Axis (RMA)...
The monitoring of water bio-physical parameters and the management aquatic ecosystems are crucial to cope with current state inland degradation. Not only does quality support decision making, it also provides vital insights better understand changing structural functional lake processes. Remote sensing has been widely recognized as an essential integrating technique for monitoring, thanks its capabilities utilize both historical archive data thousands lakes well near-real time observations...
Defining nutrient thresholds that protect and support the ecological integrity of aquatic ecosystems is a fundamental step in maintaining their natural biodiversity preserving resilience. With increasing catchment pressures climate change, it more important than ever to develop clear methods establish for status classification management waters. This must often be achieved using complex data should robust interference from additional as well ameliorating or confounding conditions. We use...
Lake water quality monitoring has the potential to be improved through integrating detailed spatial information from new generation remote sensing satellites with high frequency observations in situ optical sensors (WISPstation). We applied this approach for Trasimeno aim of increasing knowledge phytoplankton dynamics at different temporal and scales. High chlorophyll-a data WISPstation was modeled using non-parametric multiplicative regression. The ‘day year’ most important factor,...
Compounded weather events such as sequential heatwaves are likely to increasingly impact freshwater ecosystems in the future. Satellite-derived chlorophyll-a concentration estimates for 36 European lakes during a widespread double heatwave event summer of 2019 show that deep and medium depth at higher latitudes displayed synchronous increase with temperature, possibly result an improved light climate resulting from increased stratification. Many or northern had notable response heatwaves....
Abstract Satellite data from the Climate Change Initiative (CCI) lakes project were used to examine influence of climate on chlorophyll-a (Chl-a). Nonparametric multiplicative regression and machine learning explain Chl-a concentration trend dynamics. The main parameters importance seasonality, interannual variation, lake level, water temperature, North Atlantic Oscillation, antecedent rainfall. No evidence was found for an earlier onset summer phytoplankton bloom related warmer...
Abstract Salinization is a global threat to freshwater habitats that has been intensified by climate change. Monitoring, assessment and management of salinity therefore essential. The first step set criteria are sufficiently stringent protect ecosystem health. However, many countries have not yet defined criteria, there substantial differences between criteria. This noted in the EU, where required “supporting element” for ecological status inland waters but also implementation UN Sustainable...
The Water Framework Directive (WFD) sets the fundamental structure for assessing status of water bodies in European Union. Its implementation is currently entering its fourth six-year cycle assisted by a total 38 guidance documents. principal objective to ensure good surface and ground waters. functioning WFD based on detecting impact human pressures biological, physico-chemical, or hydromorphological parameters, reducing these causal through program measures achieve status. Climate change...
Abstract Soft‐water, oligotrophic isoetid lakes are vulnerable to eutrophication, acidification and alkalinization. As a result of these pressures large proportion have undergone substantial deterioration in several European countries. The understanding systems has been limited by either lack close natural conditions or through receiving less focus broader scale macrophyte surveys. This resulted dearth information on specific lake types their condition. Sixty‐eight soft‐water Ireland were...
The seasonal variation of seston stable isotopes signature carbon (δ13C) in Lake Maggiore during 2008 was related to the lake phytoplankton community, investigated terms taxonomic groups, morpho-functional groups (MBFG), cell size classes and shape classes. Three open water stations were selected reflect truly pelagic, influenced by littoral riverine sources; samples collected from two depths, 0-20 m 25-50 m. Among differences δ13C signatures statistically non significant, confirming that...
Climate change has increased the temperature and altered mixing regime of high-value lakes in subalpine region Northern Italy. Remote sensing chlorophyll-a can help provide a time series to allow an assessment ecological implications this. Non-parametric multiplicative regression (NPMR) was used visualize understand changes that have occurred between 2003–2018 Lakes Garda, Como, Iseo, Maggiore. In all four deep lakes, there been disruption from traditional pattern significant spring peak...
Lakes have been observed as sentinels of climate change. In the last decades, global warming and increasing aridity has led to an increase in both number severity wildfires. This a negative impact on lake catchments by reducing forest cover triggering cascading effects freshwater ecosystems. this work we used satellite remote sensing analyse potential fire water quality Lake Baikal (Russia), considering role runoff sediment transport, less studied pathway compared emissions transport. The...
The current national surface water monitoring programme in Ireland includes 224 lakes. Monitoring data from the period 2012–14 are used to evaluate performance of ecological assessment metrics responding eutrophication pressure, as indicated by average total phosphorus concentration (TP). For 70 surveillance lakes, r2 or relationships with TP was 0.65 for phytoplankton, macrophytes, 0.59 phytobenthos and 0.32 fish. Following normalisation Ecological Quality Ratios (EQR) a 0–1 scale;...
The frequency of heatwave events in Europe is increasing as a result climate change. This can have implications for the water quality and ecological functioning aquatic systems. We deployed three spectroradiometer WISPstations at sites (Italy, Estonia, Lithuania/Russia) to measure chlorophyll-a high frequency. A July 2019 occurred with record daily maximum temperatures over 40 °C parts Europe. effects resulting storm that ended were more discernable than itself. Following storm,...
Macrophytes are of fundamental importance to the functioning lake ecosystems. They provide structure, habitat, and a food source required component in monitoring programs ecological quality. The key aim this study is document variation spatial extent density macrophytes seasonally between 2015 2020 Sirmione Peninsula (Lake Garda, Italy), using Sentinel-2 imagery. In addition this, our results were compared previous data from imaging spectrometry; individual parameters affecting macrophyte...
Invasive alien species (IAS) potentially may alter all levels of the ecological organization aquatic water bodies. Therefore, in context EU Water Framework Directive, they represent a significant pressure that should be considered assessment status body and formation restorative programs. A study was carried out to examine different sampling techniques assess current population structure differences spatial distribution crayfish Orconectes limosus at four sites Lake Varese (Northern Italy)....