This study presents an assessment of the diversity and spatial distribution benthic macrofauna communities along Moulay Bousselham lagoon discusses environmental factors contributing to observed patterns. In autumn 2018, 68 stations were sampled with three replicates per station in subtidal intertidal areas. Environmental conditions showed that range water temperature was from 25.0 °C 12.3 °C, ...

In the last decade, Venice Lagoon showed a significant environmental recovery that changed assemblages of macroalgal and aquatic angiosperm dominant species significantly increased primary production. The decreasing anthropogenic impacts, such as eutrophication clam harvesting, favored strong reduction Ulvaceae, replaced by with higher ecological value, recolonization angiosperms. Consequently,...

Eutrophication determines algal blooms and the subsequent accumulation of organic matter in sediments, which, turn, results dominance anaerobic respiratory processes that release toxic gases. Dystrophy is a final dissipative moment reduces load sediment. A case dystrophy occurring Burano lagoon (Tuscany, Italy) 2021 reported. The study examined weather, physico-chemistry water, submerged vegeta...

The paper reports the results obtained after 4 years of aquatic angiosperm transplants in areas Venice Lagoon (North Adriatic Sea, Mediterranean) where meadows almost disappeared due to eutrophication, pollution and overexploitation clam resources. project LIFE12 NAT/IT/000331-SeResto, funded by European Union, allowed recolonize Habitat 1150* (coastal lagoons) northernmost part lagoon, extensi...

The blue crab Callinectes sapidus has shown an immense capacity to adapt new habitats in the Mediterranean Sea. Followingthe numerous reports of its proliferation along western Sicily, investigation was conducted identify any existing populations. In August 2021, a population crabs found natural reserve Trapani which includes large area restored saltmarshes. this study, by developing tracking s...

Knowledge about the diversity and spatiotemporal variability of epiphytic diatom communities in estuarine meadows has great relevance for coastal ecology and, thus, contributes to understanding impact natural anthropogenic changes on seagrass meadows. The community diatoms Ruppia maritima L. was investigated two environments with different levels nutrient loads. Both impacted non-impacted had s...

The catch per unit effort (CPUE), population structure, sex ratio, and reproductive aspects of the invasive blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun were studied in Monolimni Lagoon adjacent coastal waters estuarine area Evros River (Northeast Aegean Sea, Eastern Mediterranean). CPUE varied both seasonally spatially; higher values recorded summer fall lagoonal stations characterized by shallow dep...