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Giuseppe Mastronuzzi, Francesco De Giosa, Gianluca Quarta, Mauro Pallara, Giovanni Scardino, Giovanni Scicchitano, Cosmo Peluso, Carmine Antropoli, Claudio Caporale and Maurizio Demarte
Beach rocks are located along many coasts of the Mediterranean basin. The early diagenesis environment and the mean sea level along the shoreline make these landforms useful in the reconstruction of relative sea-level changes and, in particular, as SLIPs...
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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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Giuliana Marletta, Andrea Lombardo, Donatella Serio and Silvia Bianchelli
This study explored the biodiversity of Fucales along the islands of Lipari and Vulcano, almost ten years after the last studies on the phytobenthos of these islands. To carry out this research, a monitoring activity was conducted through both scuba dive...
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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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Azizi Ali, Muhammad Ruzi Abdullah, Che Din Mohd Safuan, Aminudin Muhammad Afiq-Firdaus, Zainudin Bachok, Mohd Fadzil Mohd Akhir, Roslan Latif, Azri Muhamad, Tan Hock Seng, Adina Roslee and Khaira Ismail
Since the 1970s, artificial reef (AR) deployment has been one of the common approaches to augment the local production of coastal fish in Malaysia. However, there is a lack of strategy to assess and evaluate the success of pre-deployed AR. Realizing the ...
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Panayota Koulouri, Athanasios Mogias and Costas Dounas
Recreational SCUBA diving is currently a nature-based USD multibillion tourism industry across the globe. However, degradation of many recreational diving destinations all over the world due to ?soft? ecotourists necessitates the adoption of innovative m...
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Seung Wook Jung, Hyun Soo Rho and Chang Geun Choi
This study conducted a community investigation via scuba-diving excursions into the subtidal regions of seven sea areas on the eastern coasts and three sea areas on the southern coasts, from October to December 2017, to determine the characteristics of s...
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Giuseppe Esposito, Marino Prearo, Vasco Menconi, Davide Mugetti, Domenico Meloni, Mattia Tomasoni, Elisabetta Pizzul, Pierluigi Piras, Monia Renzi, Dario Gaspa and Paolo Pastorino
The parrotfish Sparisoma cretense, a marine species native to the eastern and southern coastal areas of the Mediterranean, has extended its distribution northward. Here, we provide an update on its distribution based on currently published data and two n...
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Thomas Oh, Jittiwat Sermsripong and Barry W. Hicks
Studies reporting quantitation and imaging of chlorophyll in corals using visible fluorescent emission in the red near 680 nm can suffer from competing emission from other red-emitting pigments. Here, we report a novel method of selectively imaging chlor...
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Ðula Nad, Filip Mandic and Nikola Mi?kovic
SCUBA diving activities are classified as high-risk due to the dangerous environment, dependency on technical equipment that ensures life support, reduced underwater navigation and communication capabilities all of which compromise diver safety. While au...
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