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Georgios Theodosiou and Sampson Panajiotidis
Urban streams are ecosystems of great ecological and hydrological importance for human environments. However, they face pressure on biodiversity, hydromorphology, and water quality. In this study, an urban riparian system of a Mediterranean city (Thessal...
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Jatdilok Titioatchasai, Komwit Surachat, Ekkalak Rattanachot, Piyalap Tuntiprapas and Jaruwan Mayakun
Seagrass ecosystems have been declining, and restorations are conducted in many parts of the world to compensate for habitat loss and restore the ecosystem services seagrasses provide. Assessment of transplantation success requires the monitoring of the ...
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Maurizio Pinna, Francesco Zangaro, Benedetta Saccomanno, Chiara Scalone, Fabio Bozzeda, Lucia Fanini and Valeria Specchia
In order to halt the loss of global biodiversity and considering the United Nations Decade for Ocean Conservation Agenda, increasing efforts to improve biomonitoring programs and assessment of ecosystem health are needed. Aquatic environments are among t...
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Carina Juretzek, Andreas Müller, Ramona Eigenmann, Junio Fabrizio Borsani and Peter Sigray
The Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) has been an important driver for progress in monitoring and assessment of impulsive underwater noise in the marine environment of the European Union. An important achievement of the MSFD implementation was t...
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Ivelina Zlateva, Petya Ivanova, Nina Dzhembekova, Valentina Doncheva, Ivan Popov, Violeta Slabakova, Yordan Raev, Violin Raykov and Dimitar Dimitrov
The present study examined the genetic diversity and spatial distribution of turbot (Scophthalmus maximus), an economically important species on the Bulgarian Black Sea coast. Maximum entropy (MaxEnt) modeling software Version 3.4.4. was utilized to deve...
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Alessio Marrone, Maria Cristina Mangano, Alan Deidun, Manuel Berlino and Gianluca Sarà
Habitat fragmentation (HF) is an ecological process, which is potentially also one of the main causes of diversity loss. Many studies have debated the best tools to adopt for assessing the effects of HF. The traditional application of biodiversity metric...
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Jan-Olaf Meynecke and Hilla Kela
The use of objects by cetaceans is well known, and their ability to interact with their environment in complex behaviours has been demonstrated previously. However, baleen whales, including humpback whales (Megaptera novaeangliae), are less often observe...
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Agnieszka Klimkowicz-Pawlas, Bozena Smreczak and Barbara Maliszewska-Kordybach
Agricultural land is often located close to highly urbanised/industrialised areas and is subject to continuous anthropogenic pressure associated with the emission of many pollutants, ultimately deposited in the soil. Most studies on ecological risk asses...
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Mirela Alina Sandu, Roxana Maria Madjar, Mihaela Preda, Ana Vîrsta, Mala-Maria Stavrescu-Bedivan and Gina Vasile Scae?eanu
The aim of this study was to perform a morphometric analysis of Prussian carp individuals collected from the Moara Domneasca pond in Ilfov County, Romania. This was accompanied by a physico-chemical characterization of the water, which was sampled from t...
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Konstantinos Stefanidis, Theodora Kouvarda, Anna Latsiou, George Papaioannou, Konstantinos Gritzalis and Elias Dimitriou
The ecological assessment of all surface water bodies in Europe according to the Water Framework Directive involves the monitoring of biological, physicochemical and hydromorphological quality elements. For the hydromorphological assessment in particular...
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