This study presents the impacts of dredge spoil dumping in pelagic habitat during a 27-month monitoring survey eastern Mediterranean coastal waters (Saronikos Gulf, Aegean Sea), with focus on changes trophic status and eutrophication levels, phytoplankton diversity bloom dynamics. A number environmental parameters metrics were significantly influenced by operations, specifically indices (number...

The European Marine Strategy Framework Directive requires the development of suitable indicators for regular reporting on the environmental state and achievement of a good environmental status of EU’s marine waters by 2020. The development of indicators for determining seafloor integrity and its possible disturbance by human activities have so far largely ignored the geological properties of se...