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Anna Marino, Francesca Bona, Stefano Fenoglio and Tiziano Bo
Of all the environmental elements that influence the biological communities of rivers, water flow characteristics are undoubtedly the most important. Unfortunately, natural hydrological characteristics are increasingly threatened by human activities, esp...
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Anna Rita Bernadette Cammerino, Michela Ingaramo and Massimo Monteleone
The European Parliament has recently passed the ?Nature Recovery? law to restore degraded ecosystems and prevent natural disasters as part of its ?Biodiversity Strategy 2030? and ?Green Deal?. In this respect, wetlands can provide a wide range of ecosyst...
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Lukasz Kajtoch
Horticulture is one of the land use types in agricultural landscapes, which is beneficial for nature if traditional ways of management are implemented. Orchards are affected by three negative transformations: abandonment that leads to afforestation; grub...
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Tarun Jain, Pimchanok Buapet, Long Ying and Mathinee Yucharoen
An unprecedented decline in the diversity and health of coral reefs is occurring around the world as they are threatened by multiple global and local stressors. Rising seawater temperature and low dissolved oxygen (DO) conditions are expected to intensif...
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Caterina Stamouli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou and Eleni Voultsiadou
Sponge assemblages play a significant role in the functioning of the Mediterranean benthic ecosystem. The main goal of this study was to investigate the diversity and distribution of poorly known sponge communities in the mesophotic and deep-sea substrat...
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Darren Thornbrugh, Dana Infante and Yinphan Tsang
The biodiversity of stream fishes is critically threatened globally, and a major factor leading to the loss of biodiversity is anthropogenic land use in stream catchments, which act as stressors to stream fishes. Declines in the biodiversity of stream fi...
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Billy Nzau Matondo, François Fontaine, Olivier Detrait, Cathérine Poncelet, Stéphanie Vandresse, Patrice Orban, Justine Gelder, Séverine Renardy, Jean Philippe Benitez, Arnaud Dierckx, Frédéric Dumonceau, Xavier Rollin and Michaël Ovidio
The efficiency of glass eel restocking as a conservation measure to restore the altered local eel stocks has never been evaluated by integrating the dimension of typological diversity of freshwater habitats in eel recruitment performance in terms of the ...
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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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Romesh Kumar Salgotra and Bhagirath Singh Chauhan
Global rice crop production is being threatened by a frequent rise in high temperatures and drought. Drought and heat stresses adversely affect the morphological, physiological, and biochemical characteristics of rice, resulting in reduced crop productiv...
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Ioannis Giovos, Dimitra Katsada, Roxani Naasan Aga Spyridopoulou, Dimitrios Poursanidis, Aggeliki Doxa, Stelios Katsanevakis, Periklis Kleitou, Vasiliki Oikonomou, Vasileios Minasidis, Ayaka A. Ozturk, Dimitra Petza, Maria Sini, Cahide Cigdem Yigin, Eva K. M. Meyers, Joanna Barker, David Jiménez-Alvarado and Ali R. Hood
Angel sharks are among the most threatened species of sharks globally. Twenty-two species have been identified globally so far, with three species being present in the Mediterranean Sea: Squatina aculeata, Squatina oculata, and Squatina squatina. The Med...
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