My long-term goal within the EuroSTRATAFORM program has been to increase our ability to predict sediment transport in fine-grained regions of the continental shelf through field work and application and further development of models at the Adriatic and Gulf of Lions EuroSTRATAFORM sites. Testing and extending our conceptual and numerical sediment transport models at these sites is an important ...

Surnames of grandparents were collected from children in the primary schools of the Albanian-Italian, Croat-Italian and Greek-Italian villages of southern Italy and Sicily. The coefficients of relationships by isonymy show almost no relationship with ethnicity. Ethnolinguistic minorities of southern Italy and Sicily are geographically subdivided into two main clusters: the first cluster compris...

Museum skins of the Black-eared Wheatear Oenante hispanica from the eastern Adriatic coast were examined in order to identify subspecies. All 91 examined skins belong to O. h. melanoleuca. Wing lengths (88-96 mm in adult males, 87-93.5 mm in 2nd year males and 84-92 mm in females) are among the longest for this species. The proportion of the black-throated morph was 56.5% in males and 40.9% in ...

With the recent experimental advance in our precise knowledge of the neutrino oscillation parameters, the correct form of the 3 × 3 neutrino mass matrix is now approximately known. I discuss how this may be obtained from symmetry principles, using as examples the finite groups A 4 and Z 3 , in two complete theories of leptons (and quarks). ——— Preprint version of talk at the 9th Adriatic Meetin...

Biogeochemical processes in sediments of the Manfredonia Gulf (Southern Adriatic Sea): early diagenesis of carbon and nutrient and benthic exchange F. Spagnoli, G. Bartholini, M. Marini, and P. Giordano National Research Council-Marine Science Institute-Departement of Lesina (FG), Italy National Research Council-Marine Science Institute-Department of Ancona, Italy National Research Council-Mari...

Myxosporidian parasite infestation was monitered in Adriatic cage reared fish. Fish were collected once every three months from offshore netpens in the eastern Adriatic, over a nine month period. Fish samples comprised from 9 to 15 each of sea bass (Dicentrarchus labrax), sea bream (Sparus aurata), sharpsnout bream (Diplodus puntazzo) and black sea bream (Pagellus bogaraveo), all aged 1+. Only ...

Small pelagic fish are key elements of marine trophic networks and great importance to the total landing species. Over last decades, a decrease in biomass catches European sardine has been described, especially Mediterranean Sea, as an indication drop stock condition. Multiple causes, including direct indirect anthropogenic factors, seem affect this ecologically economically important To addres...

Aerobic anoxygenic phototrophs are a newly discovered member of the bacterial community in Adriatic Sea. During last seven years, when we started to study these organisms, have collected considerable number samples from different environments, coast, estuary, and open sea. Here compiled data 34 georeferenced sites four studies that summarize all is known about aerobic examine spatial vertical d...

NW Adriatic Sea variability in relation to chlorophyll-a dynamics in the last 20 years (1986–2005) L. Tedesco, G. Socal, F. Bianchi, F. Acri, D. Veneri, and M. Vichi University of Bologna, Centro Interdipartimentale di Ricerca per le Scienze Ambientali, via S. Alberto 163, 48100 Ravenna, Italy CNR – ISMAR, Istituto di Scienze Marine, Castello 1364/a, 30122 Venezia, Italy INGV – CMCC, Euro-Medit...

In this paper, we extract and validate high-frequency oscillations in the port of Ploče, based on sea level data from one year (March 2002-March 2003) measured at a tide gauge in the harbor. Frequency was analyzed by applying stationary (spectral) and non-stationary (wavelet and filtering) analyses of the data to extract temporal characteristics of the fundamental seiches with a period of 30 mi...