Long-term changes in community composition and life-history traits in a highly exploited basin (northern Adriatic Sea): the role of environment and anthropogenic pressures

2011 ◽  
Vol 79 (6) ◽  
pp. 1453-1486 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. Barausse ◽  
A. Michieli ◽  
E. Riginella ◽  
L. Palmeri ◽  
C. Mazzoldi
Keyword(s):  
Life History ◽  
Community Composition ◽  
Life History Traits ◽  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
Anthropogenic Pressures ◽  
Northern Adriatic Sea ◽  
Northern Adriatic ◽  
Long Term Changes

scholarly journals Long-term changes in heterotrophic prokaryotes abundance and growth characteristics in the northern Adriatic Sea

2010 ◽  
Vol 82 (4) ◽  
pp. 206-216 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ingrid Ivančić ◽  
Dragica Fuks ◽  
Mirjana Najdek ◽  
Maria Blažina ◽  
Massimo Devescovi ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
Growth Characteristics ◽  
Northern Adriatic Sea ◽  
Northern Adriatic ◽  
Long Term Changes ◽  
Heterotrophic Prokaryotes

scholarly journals Seasonal and Interannual Trends of Oceanographic Parameters over 40 Years in the Northern Adriatic Sea in Relation to Nutrient Loadings Using the EMODnet Chemistry Data Portal

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (8) ◽  
pp. 2280 ◽  
Author(s):  
Federica Grilli ◽  
Stefano Accoroni ◽  
Francesco Acri ◽  
Fabrizio Bernardi Aubry ◽  
Caterina Bergami ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Changes ◽  
Management Practices ◽  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
Nutrient Concentrations ◽  
Data Series ◽  
Mean Flow ◽  
Northern Adriatic Sea ◽  
Po River ◽  
Northern Adriatic

Long-term data series (1971–2015) of physical and biogeochemical parameters were analyzed in order to assess trends and variability of oceanographic conditions in the northern Adriatic Sea (NAS), a mid-latitude shallow continental shelf strongly impacted by river discharges, human activities and climate changes. Interpolation maps and statistical models were applied to investigate seasonal and spatial variability, as well as decadal trends of temperature, salinity, chlorophyll-a and nutrients. This analysis shows that sea surface temperature increased by +0.36% year−1 over four decades. Annual mean flow of the Po River markedly changed due to the occurrence of periods of persistent drought, whereas the frequency of flow rates higher than 3000 m3 s−1 decreased between 2006 and 2015. Moreover, we observed a long-term decrease in surface phosphate concentrations in Po River water (−1.34% year−1) and in seawater (in summer −2.56% year−1) coupled, however, to a significant increase in nitrate concentration in seawater (+3.80% year−1) in almost all seasons. These changes indicate that the nutrient concentrations in the NAS have been largely modulated, in the last forty years, by the evolution of environmental management practices and of the runoff. This implies that further alteration of the marine environment must be expected as a consequence of the climate changes.

scholarly journals Marine Seagrasses Transplantation in Confined and Coastal Adriatic Environments: Methods and Results

Water ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (16) ◽  
pp. 2289
Author(s):  
Daniele Curiel ◽  
Sandra Kraljević Pavelić ◽  
Agata Kovačev ◽  
Chiara Miotti ◽  
Andrea Rismondo
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Zostera Marina ◽  
Adriatic Sea ◽  
Posidonia Oceanica ◽  
Cymodocea Nodosa ◽  
Anthropogenic Pressures ◽  
Northern Adriatic Sea ◽  
Northern Adriatic ◽  
The North ◽  
Over Time

The anthropogenic pressures of the twentieth century have seriously endangered the Mediterranean coastal zone; as a consequence, marine seagrass habitats have strongly retreated, mostly those of Posidonia oceanica. For this reason, over time, restoration programs have been put in place through transplantation activities, with different success. These actions have also been conducted with other Mediterranean marine seagrasses. The results of numerous transplanting operations conducted in the Northern Adriatic Sea and lagoons with Cymodocea nodosa, Zostera marina and Z. noltei and in the Central and Southern Adriatic Sea with P. oceanica (only within the project Interreg SASPAS), are herein presented and compared, taking also into account the presence of extensive meadows of C. nodosa, Z. marina and Z. noltei, along the North Adriatic coasts and lagoons.

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