The aim of the present study was to propose a biotic index (North Adriatic Mesophotic BiogEnic Reefs, NAMBER) suitable for assessing ecological quality mesophotic biogenic reefs northern continental shelf based on photographic sampling. At each 20 sites, degree bioconstruction (expressed as percentage cover crustose coralline algae), α-diversity mean number taxa), and sensitivity human disturba...

In this study the impact of Adriatic-Ionian Bimodal Oscillating System (BiOS) on interannual to decadal variability Adriatic Sea thermohaline circulation is quantified during 1987–2017 period with numerical results and Coast (AdriSC) historical kilometer-scale climate simulation. The time series associated first five Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOFs) computed from salinity, temperature curr...

The Mediterranean stony coral Cladocora caespitosa (Linnaeus, 1767) is a well-known habitat builder, and as such hosts diversified faunal assemblage. Although polychaetes are one of the most abundant diverse macrobenthic groups associated with C. colonies, our knowledge their ecological features in this association still limited. aim paper was to gather compare comprehensive data available on A...

Abstract Historically, two angel shark species, common Squatina squatina and smoothback oculata , were in the upper continental shelf of eastern Adriatic Sea. Although both species are considered critically endangered rest world, there almost no data on current status populations, threat assessment species-specific in-situ conservation. Common is still present highly fragmented areas with extre...

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The key organic constituents of marine macroaggregates (macrogels) of prevalently phytoplankton origin, periodically occurring in the northern Adriatic Sea, are proteins, lipids and especially polysaccharides. In this article, the reactivity of various macroaggregate fractions in relation to their composition in order to decode the potentially »bioavailable« fractions is summarized and discusse...

Seasonal changes of the Adriatic Sea level, obtained by analyses of monthly sea level data measured at the Split tide gauge station in 1958-2001, are reported. The data were correlated by multivariant analysis to (1) local meteorological data on air temperature, air pressure, and precipitation, collected at the Split station and data on winds obtained from ECMWF ERA40 Reanalysis fields and (2) ...