Seagrass meadows are monitored in the frame of several environmental programs worldwide, including Water Framework Directive (WFD), to evaluate ecological status European coastal and transitional water bodies. The large size, spatial complexity, interannual variability seagrass ecosystems significantly challenge field monitoring. In this study, a multi-mission satellite time-series was used est...

DDP designed the study and wrote the manuscript. EK carried out molecular and biochemical analysis and wrote the manuscript. SS and FJM performed cell-culture and uptake assays. WFD assisted in gene expression analyses. GS carried out stereotactic surgeries and behavioral analysis. SNR, DK and MR performed behavioral experiments. FK carried out radioligand binding assays. MC assisted in biochem...

Abstract We studied wave function dissipation (WFD) in field emission resonance (FER) by performing scanning tunneling microscopy on the highly oriented pyrolytic graphite (HOPG) and Ag(111) surfaces under two conditions: (1) same current FER number; (2) tip structure but different currents. Under first condition, we observed that decay rate corresponding to WFD exhibited a larger variation HOP...

Ecosystem services (ES) are theoretically linked to healthy ecological conditions, but this relationship seems be rather challenging demonstrate in the real world. Therefore, shedding light on these aspects can crucial for implementing effective ecosystem management strategies, instance within context of EU Water Framework Directive (WFD) implementation. This work aims present a spatially-expli...

In the context of the Rio Earth Summit numerous international regimes, national policies and organizational guidelines have appeared that help translate the normative demands of sustainable development into political reality. The implementation of these instruments, however, often runs into difficulties or fails entirely. An example is the EU Water Framework Directive (WFD), a progressive appro...

The paper discusses the potential of action research to meet the challenges entailed in institutional design for urban water management. Our overall aim is to briefly present action research and discuss its methodological merits with regard to the challenges posed by the different conceptual bases for extrapolating the effects of institutional design on institutional change. Thus, our aim is to...

We compare the results of different monitoring programs regarding spatial and temporal trends of priority hazardous substances of the European Water Framework Directive (WFD). Fish monitoring data for hexachlorobenzene (HCB), mercury (Hg), and perfluorooctane sulfonic acid (PFOS) sampled in German freshwaters between the mid-1990s and 2014 were evaluated according to the recommendations of the ...

Environmental monitoring in the scope of the Water Framework Directive 2000/60/EC (WFD) is usually expensive and requires considerable human effort. In this study, we analyzed data obtained by a WFD coastal waters monitoring network over a three-year period (35 campaigns), with the aim to ascertain is it possible to increase the monitoring efficiency and obtain more accurate results. As the tro...