scholarly journals First data on ostracods and foraminifera living in Cystoseira associations in western Ionian Sea

2018 ◽  
Vol 18 (3) ◽  
pp. 393
Author(s):  
FRANCESCO SCIUTO ◽  
ANTONIETTA ROSSO ◽  
ROSSANA SANFILIPPO ◽  
GIUSEPPINA ALONGI ◽  
MARCELLO CATRA ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Water Depth ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Ionian Sea ◽  
Sea Bottom ◽  
Three Samples ◽  
The Family ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City

For the first time ostracod and foraminifera populations living on infralittoral algae were analysed from three different localities near the Ciclopi Islands Marine Protected Area along the Etnean Ionian coast of Sicily, few km N of the city of Catania. Six series of samples, each of three samples, were collected at 5, 10 and 26 m water depth in sea bottom areas where the Biocoenosis of the Infralittoral Algae is developed. Some samples were collected inside the Ciclopi Islands Marine Protected Area (CIMPA) and some outside it.In all the samples the ostracod association is characteristically constituted by a mixture of true shallow water phytal taxa and and infralittoral sediment-dwelling taxa. The family Xestoleberididae is markedly dominant, mainly in the shallowest samples. Xestoleberis dispar represents more than 60% of all the specimens, followed by X. communis and X. dispar. The families Paradoxostomatidae (with Paradoxostoma rarum, P. simile, P. parallelum, P. intermedium, P. atrum and P. caecum), Hemicytheridae (with Aurila prasina and A. convexa), Bairdidae (with Neonesidea mediterranea, N. corpulenta, and N. Longevaginata) follow. Loxoconchidae (with Loxoconcha rhomboidea), Pontocyprididae (with Pontocypris mediterranea and Pontocypris pirifera) and Cytheruridae (with very few specimens of Semicytherura spp.) are subordinate.Foraminifera are represented almost exclusively by phytal benthic taxa. Between them the the family Miliolidae is markedly prevalent, mostly represented by Quinqueloculina species, followed by the family Rotaliidae with Elphidium crispum, E. depressum, E. aculeatum, and Elphidium spp. Discorbidae, with Rosalina spp.; Cibidididae, largely represented by Cibicides refulgens and C. advenum; Planorbulinidae with Planorbulina mediterranensis, are also present.

scholarly journals Inventory and distribution of hard bottom fauna from the marine protected area of Porto Cesareo (Ionian Sea): Porifera and Polychaeta

2004 ◽  
Vol 71 (3) ◽  
pp. 237-245 ◽  
Author(s):  
Giuseppe Corriero ◽  
Miriam Gherardi ◽  
Adriana Giangrande ◽  
Caterina Longo ◽  
Maria Mercurio ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Bottom Fauna ◽  
Ionian Sea

Homing and home range of the European spiny lobster, Palinurus elephas (Decapoda, Palinuridae) acoustically tracked

Crustaceana ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 92 (4) ◽  
pp. 463-476
Author(s):  
Vincenzo M. Giacalone ◽  
Arturo Zenone ◽  
Fabio Badalamenti ◽  
Javier Ciancio ◽  
Gaspare Buffa ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Home Range ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
High Spatial Resolution ◽  
Spiny Lobster ◽  
Ultrasonic Telemetry ◽  
Central Mediterranean ◽  
In The Wild ◽  
First Time ◽  
Palinurus Elephas

Abstract A specific study has been carried out for the first time to investigate the homing capability and daily home range of the spiny lobster Palinurus elephas by means of ultrasonic telemetry. Nine lobsters collected in the Capo Gallo — Isola delle Femmine marine protected area (northwestern Sicily, central Mediterranean) were tagged with miniaturized transmitters and released at a single site inside the protected area. The lobsters were monitored with the purpose of calculating their horizontal and vertical positions, analysing their movement patterns to assess their homing capability, and calculating their daily home range. Five lobsters moved back close to the capture sites within the first 20 hours after release (‘homed’). The remaining four lobsters ‘relocated’ to a different refuge. Homed lobsters had a larger home range than relocated lobsters. This study provides the first description of a homing pattern with high spatial resolution in the wild European spiny lobster as inferred by ultrasonic telemetry.

The 700th Anniversary of Bethlem

1947 ◽  
Vol 93 (393) ◽  
pp. 740-747
Author(s):  
Duncan Whittaker
Keyword(s):  
Fish Ponds ◽  
House Of Commons ◽  
The North ◽  
The Family ◽  
The Gift ◽  
Own Name ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
English Culture ◽  
The Church

This year marks the seven hundredth anniversary of the foundling of the House of Bethlem. Seven hundred years! It takes us back to the very beginnings of English culture. Much in our constitution that we hold dear dates from this thirteenth century, which saw the foundation of Bethlem. In 1215 King John signed the Magna Carta, and in 1265 Simon de Montfort summoned not only the knights of the shire, but for the first time two representatives from each of the chartered boroughs, the precursor of the House of Commons. It was between these two dates on the Wednesday after the Feast of St. Luke the Evangelist, which in the year 1247 fell on 23 October, that Simon FitzMary, a citizen of London, signed the deed-poll which founded this hospital. He had given and granted to God and the church of St. Mary of Bethlem all that land of his which he had in the parish of St. Botolph without Bishopsgate London, to wit, all that he had or might have there, in houses, gardens, orchards, fish-ponds, ditches, marshes and all other things appertaining thereto as defined by their boundaries. These extended in length from the king's highway on the east to that ditch on the west which was called Depeditch, and in breadth to the land which belonged to Ralph Dunning on the north and to the land of St. Botolph's church on the south. The gift was for the formation of a priory under the rule and order of the church of Bethlem, the brothers and sisters to wear publicly upon their copes and mantles the badge of a star. He further declared in the deed poll that: “For the greater security of this gift I have placed myself and mine outside the said property, and I have solemnly put in actual possession of it, and have handed over the possession of all things aforesaid to the lord Godfrey of the family of the Prefetti of the city of Rome, at this time bishop-elect of Bethlem (as by our lord the pope confirmed) and at this time actually in England, in his own name, and in that of his successors, and in the name of the chapter of the church of Bethlem. And he has received possession of the said property, and has entered upon it in the form prescribed.”

scholarly journals Briofitas del Parque Nacional Macarao, Venezuela

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Thalia Morales Rojas
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
National Park ◽  
New Records ◽  
Mountain Range ◽  
Floristic Inventory ◽  
First Time ◽  
The City ◽  
Fundamental Objective ◽  
Iucn Criteria ◽  
Coastal Mountain

Resumen:Antecedentes y Objetivos: El Parque Nacional Macarao es un área natural protegida ubicada cerca de la ciudad de Caracas, capital de Venezuela. Apesar de su ubicación estratégica, es un área poco explorada biológicamente; el desconocimiento briológico es sustancial. El objetivo fundamental deeste trabajo fue inventariar los briofitos del Parque Nacional Macarao.Métodos: Se plantearon tres ejes para evaluar la flora de musgos, hepáticas y antoceros del Parque Macarao: una revisión bibliográfica de reportespara el área de estudio, una revisión de herbarios nacionales (CAR, MY, VEN) y extranjeros (MO, NY, TROPICOS) y un inventario brioflorístico sobretodos los sustratos disponibles a lo largo de siete localidades ubicadas entre 1500 y 2600 m s.n.m. Los ejemplares colectados se identificaron conclaves taxonómicas especializadas; posteriormente, fueron depositados en los herbarios MO y VEN.Resultados clave: La información obtenida provino en 76% del inventario florístico, 19% revisión bibliográfica y 5% material de herbario. Se elaboróuna lista con 114 especies distribuidas en 77 géneros y 42 familias de briofitas (70 especies de musgos y 44 hepáticas). Las familias con mayor númerode especies fueron Lejeuneaceae (13 géneros/21 especies), Orthotrichaceae (2/7), Sematophyllaceae (3/6), Fissidentaceae (1/6), Pilotrichaceae (4/4)y Neckeraceae (5/5).Conclusiones: Se incluyen 87 nuevos registros para el Parque Nacional Macarao y se reporta por primera vez Calymperes tenerum para Venezuela.Se recomienda incluir, según los criterios de la UICN a Steerecleus serrulatus y Rhaphidorrhynchium decurvifolium como especies vulnerables dentrode la brioflora venezolana.Palabras clave: Cordillera de la costa, hepáticas, inventario, musgos.Abstract:Background and Aims: The Macarao National Park is a protected area located near the city of Caracas, capital of Venezuela. Despite its strategiclocation, it is biologically little explored; the lack of bryological knowledge is substantial. The fundamental objective of this work was the inventory ofthe bryophytes of the Macarao National Park.Methods: Three actions were proposed to evaluate the flora of mosses, liverworts and anthocyanins of this park: bibliographic review of reports forthe study area, herbarium review of different national (CAR, MY, VEN) and foreign herbaria (MO, NY, TROPICOS), and floristic inventory made on allavailable substrates across seven locations located between 1500 and 2600 m a.s.l. The collected specimens were identified with specialized taxonomickeys; subsequently, they were deposited in the herbaria MO and VEN.Key results: Seventy-six percent of the information was obtained from the floristic inventory, 19% from the bibliographic review and 5% from herbariummaterial. In this way, a list was prepared consisting of 114 species, distributed in 77 genera and 42 families of bryophytes (70 species of mossesand 44 liverworts). The families with the highest number of species were Lejeuneaceae (13 genera/21 species), Orthotrichaceae (2/7), Sematophyllaceae(3/6), Fissidentaceae (1/6), Pilotrichaceae (4/4) and Neckeraceae (5/5).Conclusions: Among the highlighted results, 87 new records are included for Macarao National Park and Calymperes tenerum is reported for Venezuelafor the first time. It is recommended to include, according to the IUCN criteria, Steerecleus serrulatus, Rhaphidorrhynchium decurvifolium asvulnerable species within the Venezuelan bryoflora.Key words: Coastal mountain range, inventory, liverworts, mosses.

The association of amphipods in the shallow-water sand habitat of Strangford Lough, Co. Down

1973 ◽  
Vol 53 (1) ◽  
pp. 119-125 ◽  
Author(s):  
A. A. Fincham
Keyword(s):  
Shallow Water ◽  
Dominant Species ◽  
New Records ◽  
Sediment Samples ◽  
Number Of Species ◽  
Strangford Lough ◽  
The Family ◽  
Average Abundance ◽  
Median Diameter ◽  
First Time

Ten stations were sampled in the shallow-water sand habitat of Strangford Lough using a naturalist's dredge. Sediment samples were analysed to determine median diameter (ranging from 1·13 to 3·23 ø), Phi quartile deviation (ranging from 0·17 to 0·65 ø) and Phi quartile skewness (ranging from –0·11 to –0·04 ø).Twenty-two species of amphipod belonging to thirteen families were identified; ten species were new records for Strangford Lough and the Family Phoxocephalidae was recorded for the first time. The average number of species per station was nine and average abundance was 660 amphipods per station. The most frequently occurring species was the caprellid Phtisica marina (present in 90% of the samples); the overall dominant species was the corophiid Corophium crassicorne representing 52% of all specimens recorded.

The Chagos Marine Protected Area Arbitration: Has the Scope of losc Compulsory Jurisdiction Been Clarified?

2016 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 120-143 ◽  
Author(s):  
Lan Ngoc Nguyen
Keyword(s):  
United Kingdom ◽  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Arbitral Tribunal ◽  
Arbitral Award ◽  
Territorial Sovereignty ◽  
First Time

This article focuses on the jurisdictional issues that arose from the losc Annex vii Arbitral Award of the Chagos Marine Protected Area Arbitration (Mauritius v. United Kingdom). In this case, the arbitral tribunal for the first time answered the long-debated question of whether it has jurisdiction to hear a dispute concerning territorial sovereignty issues. This article argues that in the process of answering this question, the arbitral tribunal managed to identify the steps in order to determine the extent to which its jurisdiction extends to sovereignty disputes. However, the manner in which the tribunal, and the dissenting arbitrators, proceeded with each of these steps left much to be desired in terms of clarity and coherence. The Arbitral Award nonetheless managed to clarify the scope of Article 297 regarding the limitations to compulsory jurisdiction and in determining the threshold for the fulfilment of Article 283 on the obligation to exchange views.

scholarly journals New records of Demospongiae (Porifera) from Reserva Marina El Pelado (Santa Elena, Ecuador), with description of Tedania (Tedania) ecuadoriensis sp. nov.

ZooKeys ◽  
2021 ◽  
Vol 1011 ◽  
pp. 101-120
Author(s):  
Karla B. Jaramillo ◽  
Báslavi Cóndor-Luján ◽  
Belinda Longakit ◽  
Jenny Rodriguez ◽  
Olivier P. Thomas ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
New Records ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Eastern Pacific ◽  
Shallow Waters ◽  
Tropical Eastern Pacific ◽  
Taxonomic Descriptions ◽  
Sponge Diversity ◽  
First Time ◽  
Santa Elena

The first taxonomic descriptions of the sponge diversity at El Pelado Marine Protected Area in the province of Santa Elena, Ecuador is reported. Tedania (Tedania) ecuadoriensis Jaramillo & Hajdu, sp. nov. is described from its shallow waters. In addition, Callyspongia (Callyspongia) aff. californica (sensuCruz-Barraza and Carballo 2008; nonsensuDickinson 1945) and Cliona aff. euryphylle are reported for the first time. The former species is likely distributed over 4,000 km along the Tropical Eastern Pacific, whereas the latter might be an example of a trans-isthmian lineage. An amended diagnosis for Callyspongia (Callyspongia) and an updated identification key for the subgenera of Callyspongia are provided.

scholarly journals Cultural Heritage Management Using Remote Sensing Data and GIS Techniques around the Archaeological Area of Ancient Jeddah in Jeddah City, Saudi Arabia

2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (1) ◽  
pp. 240 ◽  
Author(s):  
Abdelaziz Elfadaly ◽  
Ayaat Shams eldein ◽  
Rosa Lasaponara
Keyword(s):  
Remote Sensing ◽  
Shallow Water ◽  
Water Depth ◽  
Environmental Changes ◽  
Heritage Management ◽  
World Heritage Site ◽  
Jeddah City ◽  
Gis Techniques ◽  
The City ◽  
Shallow Water Depth

Historic Jeddah is located on the eastern shore of the Red Sea. Historic Jeddah was designated as a UNESCO world heritage site in 2014. The new urban development for the city of Jeddah has resulted in different spatial patterns. The southern part of Jeddah city falls within the moderate zone, because this area is well developed in regard to infrastructure with rainstorm and sewage networks. The middle area of the city falls within high vulnerability risk due to its high population, shallow water depth, flat slopes, and various incomplete network services (i.e., leakage from septic tanks and water pipes). The western and northwestern parts of the city are subject to very high pollution risk, due to the highly permeable area with coralline formation, very shallow water depth, and depressions. Unfortunately, historic Jeddah has been affected by the unplanned development and shallow water depth. Most of the construction and decoration of the ancient buildings are suffering from deterioration. The paper aims to detect the environmental changes, assessing the geo-environmental status, and creating some of the innovative solutions while using the integration between remote sensing and GIS techniques. The combination of SRTM, Corona 1966, Spot 1986, Landsat 1987, Orbview 2003, and Sentinel2A 2017 data will help in monitoring the changes around the study area. The Bands combination and the spatial statistical analysis are considered to be the most effective methods in the examination of the new built-up indices. GIS techniques and some models would be suggested as solutions to protect the archaeological area, according to UNESCO recommendations.

scholarly journals Sponges from rhodolith beds surrounding Ustica Island marine protected area (southern Tyrrhenian Sea), with a comprehensive inventory of the island sponge fauna

2020 ◽  
Vol 84 (3) ◽  
pp. 297
Author(s):  
Caterina Longo ◽  
Giuseppe Corriero ◽  
Frine Cardone ◽  
Maria Mercurio ◽  
Cataldo Pierri ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Protected Area ◽  
Marine Protected Area ◽  
Species Level ◽  
Tyrrhenian Sea ◽  
Time Analysis ◽  
Video Images ◽  
Marine Caves ◽  
Southern Tyrrhenian Sea ◽  
First Time ◽  
Hard Substrates

The sponge fauna colonizing rhodolith beds from Ustica Island marine protected area was studied. Moreover, an inventory of the sponge species present along the island’s coasts was carried out for the first time. Analysis of rhodoliths trapped in nets used by local fishermen at two sites and data obtained from underwater video images were used to identify 25 sponge taxa, 22 of them at species level. The classes Demospongiae and Homoscleromorpha were present with 24 and 1 species, respectively. Most of the specimens were small-sized and represented by thick crusts or short erect branches. Few specimens were insinuating or excavating. Furthermore, qualitative sampling was performed on Ustica’s coralligenous formations, photophilous hard substrates and in marine caves, and the results obtained were added to the literature data. The overall checklist of sponges from Ustica encompassed 97 taxa, 90 named at species level, subdivided into 6 taxa of Calcarea, 3 of Homoscleromorpha and 88 of Demospongiae. Eleven of the species were endemic to the Mediterranean Sea, mainly concentrated on rhodoliths and in marine caves. This research adds a fundamental element to the knowledge of invertebrates associated with rhodoliths, and updates the checklist of sponges colonizing Ustica’s waters, facilitating its future monitoring.

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