In this work a suspect-screening approach was employed to assess the polymers and plastic additives of micro(nano)plastics (NPL/MPLs) size ranges from nm range 20 ?m present in seawater top 5 cm Mar Menor lagoon during two sampling campaigns (summer winter), as well other potentially adsorbed compounds onto particles surfaces suspended material. The identification NPL/MPLs has been based on cha...

Coastal lagoons, both hypersaline and freshwater, are common, but still understudied ecosystems. We describe, for the first time, using high throughput sequencing, the extant microbiota of two large and representative Mediterranean coastal lagoons, the hypersaline Mar Menor, and the freshwater Albufera de Valencia, both located on the south eastern coast of Spain. We show there are considerable...

In recent decades, most Spanish Mediterranean agricultural regions have been transformed to meet global food demands and joined production networks: a convergence process that has granted them steady economic growth. certain cases, however, this transformation led of ecological degradation. This article focuses on the Torre-Pacheco case, in Campo de Cartagena region (southeast Spain, Murcia), r...

Citation: Vásquez-Elizondo RM and Enríquez S (2017) Light Absorption in Coralline Algae (Rhodophyta): A Morphological and Functional Approach to Understanding Species Distribution in a Coral Reef Lagoon. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:297. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00297 Light Absorption in Coralline Algae (Rhodophyta): A Morphological and Functional Approach to Understanding Species Distribution in a Coral ...

For decades, inputs of nutrients and organic matter into the Mar Menor coastal lagoon have favored change from an original oligotrophic to a eutrophic state. The reached stage severe eutrophication “environmental collapse” during spring 2016. This paper describes massive growth Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) forming large aggregations reef structures after environmental collapse caused by cr...

The potential negative influence of the seaweed Caulerpa prolifera on seagrass Cymodocea nodosa was explored in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon (Mar Menor, Spain) where alga suddenly and rapidly spread four decades ago. An extensive field sampling carried out across to characterise distribution abundance both macrophytes at different spatial scales, as well sediment characteristics. Generalised ...

A combination of hydrological and hydrodynamic modelling can be applied to understand the hydrology key water balance components lakes lagoons. In this research, Soil Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model QGIS Ecosystems (QWET) were for Mar Menor coastal lagoon its watershed known as Campo de Cartagena. First, SWAT was calibrated validated based on remote sensing evapotranspiration data. Results s...