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Stefano Furlani, Fabrizio Antonioli, Emanuele Colica, Sebastiano D?Amico, Stefano Devoto, Pietro Grego and Timmy Gambin
Sea caves are a type of cave formed primarily by the wave action of the sea. The coastal scenery of the Gozitan coast is very interesting in that sea caves and other coastal landforms, such as sea arches, develop at the sea level. We mapped seventy-nine ...
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Mariana Machado Toffolo, Federica Grilli, Catia Prandi, Stefano Goffredo and Mauro Marini
Climate change is one of the main problems currently strongly conditioning ecosystems all over the world. Coastal lagoons are amongst the most vulnerable habitats, and they are undergoing extensive human impact due to their high production rates and the ...
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Fabrizio Antonioli, Stefano Furlani, Paolo Montagna and Paolo Stocchi
The investigation of submerged speleothems for sea level studies has made significant contributions to the understanding of the global and regional sea level variations during the Middle and Late Quaternary. This has especially been the case for the Medi...
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Alberto Fortelli, Alessandro Fedele, Giuseppe De Natale, Fabio Matano, Marco Sacchi, Claudia Troise and Renato Somma
The coastline of the Gulf of Naples, Italy, is characterized by a series of infrastructures of strategic importance, including touristic and commercial ports between Pozzuoli to Sorrento, main roads, railways, and urban areas. Furthermore, the Gulf of Na...
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Chiara Facca, Francesco Cavraro, Piero Franzoi and Stefano Malavasi
Transitional waters are fragile ecosystems with high ecological, social and economic values, that undergo numerous threats. According to the information provided by European Member States in the framework of the European Directive 92/43/EEC (Habitat Dire...
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Demetrios Hermides, Panayota Makri, George Kontakiotis and Assimina Antonarakou
This study focuses on the hydrogeological conditions in the coastal (Thriassion plain) and submarine (Eleusis Gulf) environment of West Attica, Greece. Up to now, the predominant aspect for the Thriassion plain groundwater?hosted within the Neogene-Quate...
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Francesca Iuculano, Carlos M. Duarte, Jaime Otero, Xosé Antón Álvarez-Salgado and Susana Agustí
Posidonia oceanica is a well-recognized source of dissolved organic matter (DOM) derived from exudation and leaching of seagrass leaves, but little is known about its impact on the chromophoric fraction of DOM (CDOM). In this study, we monitored for two ...
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Stamatios Petalas, Ioannis Mamoutos, Agisilaos-Alexandros Dimitrakopoulos, Angeliki Sampatakaki and Vassilis Zervakis
The first stages of the development of a pilot oceanographic observatory for an enclosed basin (Kalloni Gulf, Lesvos, Greece) are described. The focus of the present work is related to the estimation of the water exchange with the open sea, using a numer...
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Uxía López-Dóriga and José A. Jiménez
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Chrysoula Christia, Gianmarco Giordani and Eva Papastergiadou
Coastal lagoon types of Western Greece were allocated to a spectrum of meso to polyhaline chocked lagoons; poly to euhaline restricted lagoons; and euhaline restricted lagoons along the Ionian Sea coast. This diversity comprises wide ranges of physical, ...
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Chrysoula Christia, Gianmarco Giordani and Eva Papastergiadou
Coastal lagoon types of Western Greece were allocated to a spectrum of meso to polyhaline chocked lagoons; poly to euhaline restricted lagoons; and euhaline restricted lagoons along the Ionian Sea coast. This diversity comprises wide ranges of physical, ...
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Daniele Trogu, Simone Simeone, Andrea Ruju, Marco Porta, Angelo Ibba and Sandro DeMuro
This paper investigates the dynamics of the cross-shore extensions of banquettes, a sedimentary structure mostly made by rests of Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile, in a sandy urban beach located in the Gulf of Cagliari, Italy, western Mediterranean. A vide...
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Carmela Caroppo and Laura Giordano
A simulation of phytoplankton dynamics in the coastal shellfish farming site of Mar Piccolo in Taranto (Ionian, Mediterranean Sea) is here reported. This simulation is an element of a greater ecological model produced taking into account the System Appro...
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Dimitris Klaoudatos, Labrini Tziantziou, Alexios Lolas, Nikos Neofitou and Dimitris Vafidis
The black sea urchin (Arbacia lixula, Linnaeus, 1758) is a non-edible marine echinoderm of high ecological importance with the potential to affect marine ecological communities. A. lixula were sampled monthly for one year from the supralittoral fringe at...
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Irene Simonetti and Lorenzo Cappietti
A numerical model, validated with field measurements, was applied to comparatively reconstruct the hydrodynamics of a eutrophic coastal lagoon in a set of scenarios over the last two centuries. The effect of major morphological changes on the water excha...
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Gabriella Caruso, Maria Grazia Giacobbe, Filippo Azzaro, Franco Decembrini, Marcella Leonardi, Stefano Miserocchi, Xiuyun Cao, Chunlei Song and Yiyong Zhou
Bacterial and phytoplankton communities are known to be in close relationships, but how natural and anthropogenic stressors can affect their dynamics is not fully understood. To study the response of microbial communities to environmental and human-induc...
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Valentina Vannucchi, Stefano Taddei, Valerio Capecchi, Michele Bendoni and Carlo Brandini
A 29-year wind/wave hindcast is produced over the Mediterranean Sea for the period 1990?2018. The dataset is obtained by downscaling the ERA5 global atmospheric reanalyses, which provide the initial and boundary conditions for a numerical chain based on ...
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Alain Lefebvre and David Devreker
The first quantitative and comprehensive assessment of the eutrophication status from coastal to offshore French waters was performed within the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD descriptor 5) for the English Channel, the southern bight of the No...
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Eyal Rahav, Natalia Belkin, Adina Paytan and Barak Herut
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Michel Bakalowicz
Coastal karst aquifers are common in the Mediterranean basin. With their significant potential storage capacity, they are an attractive groundwater resource in areas where the water demand is the most important. They discharge either at the coastal zone ...
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