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Nicola Bettoso, Lisa Faresi, Valentina Pitacco, Martina Orlando-Bonaca, Ida Floriana Aleffi and Lovrenc Lipej
In the northern Adriatic Sea, rocky outcrops called ?trezze? or ?tegnúe? are known as biodiversity hotspots. A total of 45 rocky outcrops were studied by using non-destructive photographic sampling during SCUBA diving. Ten invertebrate phyla with 196 tax...
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Marine Dallakyan, Tatsiana Lipinskaya, Vardan Asatryan, Viktoriya Golovenchik, Jana Thormann, Laura von der Mark and Jonas J. Astrin
Gammarus plays a central role in the detritus cycle and constitutes an important component in food webs. At the same time, taxonomy and morphological identification to species level is highly challenging in this genus. Thus, the freshwater gammarid diver...
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Lucia Rizzo and Tomás Vega Fernández
Non-indigenous species (NIS) represent one of the greatest threats to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, altering invaded habitats, competing with native species, and eventually becoming pests. The Mediterranean Sea is a marine biodiversity hotspot,...
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Matteo Ventura, Giulio Careddu, Edoardo Calizza, Simona Sporta Caputi, Emmanuelle Argenti, David Rossi, Loreto Rossi and Maria Letizia Costantini
Lakes worldwide have been strongly affected by several types of human-caused alteration, including changes in water level. This also affects deep lakes, including volcanic ones. Volcanic lakes in the Mediterranean area are of great importance for the loc...
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Dana Lee, Jackman C. Eschenroeder, Lee J. Baumgartner, Bunyeth Chan, Sudeep Chandra, Seila Chea, Sothearoth Chea, Chheana Chhut, Elizabeth Everest, Radong Hom, Kong Heng, Stefan Lovgren, Sinsamout Ounboundisane, Wayne Robinson, Lykheang Seat, Sobot Soth and Zeb S. Hogan
The Mekong River is one of the most biodiverse, productive rivers in the world, supporting more than 1000 fish species and the livelihoods of tens of millions of people. The spatial dynamics and population status of many Mekong fish species, especially m...
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Polina Lemenkova and Olivier Debeir
This paper addresses the issue of the satellite image processing using GRASS GIS in the mangrove forests of the Niger River Delta, southern Nigeria. The estuary of the Niger River Delta in the Gulf of Guinea is an essential hotspot of biodiversity on the...
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Marco Ranù, Alessandra Vanacore, Alberta Mandich and Jessica Alessi
The aim of this study is to evaluate the presence of biodiversity hotspots in Agrigento waters (Mediterranean Sea) to define the conservation area for bottlenose dolphins (Tursiops truncatus) and seabirds (Calonectris diomedea, Puffinus yelkouan, and Hyd...
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Dimitris Poursanidis, Kostas Kougioumoutzis, Vasileios Minasidis, Niki Chartosia, Demetris Kletou and Stefanos Kalogirou
Biological invasions are considered among the largest threats to native biodiversity. The Mediterranean Sea, connecting the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic oceans, is characterized as a global marine invasion hotspot, due to a multitude of human pathways and v...
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Giles Thomson, Peter Newman, Dominique Hes, Jo Bennett, Mark Taylor and Ron Johnstone
The benefits of ecosystem services to cities are well documented; for example, water-sensitive urban design to mitigate stormwater flows and purify run-off, the cooling benefits provided by tree shade, and psychological benefits of urban greening. Cities...
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Ajit Kumar Behera, Rudra Mohan Pradhan, Sudhir Kumar, Govind Joseph Chakrapani and Pankaj Kumar
Despite being a biodiversity hotspot, the Mahanadi delta is facing groundwater salinization as one of the main environmental threats in the recent past. Hence, this study attempts to understand the dynamics of groundwater and its sustainable management o...
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