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1. The Ecological Observing System of the Adriatic Sea (ECOAdS): structure and perspectives within the main European biodiversity and environmental strategies

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Alessandra Pugnetti, Elisabetta Manea, Ivica Vilibić, Alessandro Sarretta, Lucilla Capotondi, Bruno Cataletto, Elisabeth De Maio, Carlo Franzosini, Ivana Golec, Marco Gottardi, Jelena Kurtović Mrčelić, Hrvoje Mihanovic, Alessandro Oggioni, Grgur Pleslic, Mariangela Ravaioli, Silvia Rova, Andrea Valentini, and Caterina Bergami

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Adriatic Sea, Ecological Observatory, Biodiversity, Science
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This Policy Brief succinctly presents the Ecological Observing System of the Adriatic Sea (ECOAdS), aimed at integrating the ecological and oceanographic dimensions within the conservation strategy of the Natura 2000 network, and to propose a way to go for its future development and maintenance. After a definition of marine ecological observatories, we describe the current structure of ECOAdS, its key components and potential relevance in relation to the main European strategies for biodiversity and marine observation for the next decade. Finally, we suggest some actions that could be undertaken for the future development of ECOAdS, targeting possible perspectives in different regional, macro-regional, national and European strategic contexts. This Policy Brief is one of the outcomes of the Interreg Italy-Croatia Project ECOSS (ECological Observing System in the Adriatic Sea: oceanographic observations for biodiversity; https://www.italy-croatia.eu/web/ecoss), which had the main purpose to design and carry out the first steps for the establishment of ECOAdS.

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2022
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2. Are we overlooking Natura 2000 sites? Lessons learned from a transnational project in the Adriatic Sea

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Fabrizio Gianni, Elisabetta Manea, Bruno Cataletto, Alessandra Pugnetti, Caterina Bergami, Lucia Bongiorni, Grgur Pleslić, Ivica Vilibić, and Vinko Bandelj

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marine conservation, monitoring, Natura 2000 sites, European directives, Adriatic, Science, General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution, QH1-199.5
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Since the adoption of the Habitats and Birds Directives by EU governments, marine Natura 2000 (N2K) sites have been established in the European Mediterranean Sea, creating one of the largest international networks of protected areas. Nevertheless, to date, marine N2K sites are generally scarcely implemented, studied and monitored, and thus their management effectiveness is weak, and their environmental status is often unknown. The Interreg Italy-Croatia ECOSS project aimed at establishing the ECOlogical observing system of the Adriatic Sea (ECOAdS), to integrate the existing research and monitoring activities in the area, and to promote data sharing at international level, for enhancing monitoring and conservation in Adriatic N2K network. In the framework of ECOSS, a conceptual model was developed and applied to selected N2K sites, to review the existing knowledge, assess site effectiveness, and suggest possible improvements in their monitoring and management based on the contribution that ECOAdS can provide to their implementation. Information on social, ecological, and oceanographic elements related to the conservation and management of these case studies was gathered by consulting the project partners involved in the management and monitoring of the sites and through a literature review. The results of this study revealed a discouraging condition with no management plan in most of the sites, while regulatory measures are generally in place but without surveillance. Monitoring activities are performed occasionally, and information on presence and status of protected species is often lacking or outdated. Although the N2K network provides a unique opportunity to advance marine conservation and achieve the 30% conservation target by 2030, the biggest challenge ahead is the proper management and monitoring of N2K sites. The proposed conceptual model may be taken as a framework to properly set up ecological observing systems in the N2K network and help overcome current limitations, integrating scientific research within the N2K conservation strategies.

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2022
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3. An ecosystem-based system of variables to enhance marine species and habitat monitoring and conservation: The Adriatic Natura 2000 case study

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Elisabetta Manea, Caterina Bergami, Alessandra Pugnetti, Fabrizio Gianni, Alessandro Oggioni, Vinko Bandelj, Bruno Cataletto, Grgur Pleslić, and Lucia Bongiorni

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essential variables, MSFD, WFD, natura 2000, marine ecological observatory, transboundary conservation, Science, General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution, QH1-199.5
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Implementing effective marine monitoring to detect and track ecosystem shifts, biodiversity alteration, and habitat loss is one of the most crucial challenges to meet the objectives set out by the Post-2020 Biodiversity Framework and by the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals. The lack of coordinated and harmonized monitoring frameworks at different spatial scales and their weakness in accounting for ecological processes, due to incomplete sets of monitoring variables, strongly hinder the achievement of conservation objectives. Here, we propose an approach to build a coherent ecosystem-based system of monitoring variables for target marine species and habitats. The approach is designed to integrate the existing monitoring frameworks set up by the Water and the Marine Strategy Framework directives, and the Essential Ocean and Biodiversity Variables, with the aim to contribute to their harmonization and implementation. Furthermore, by embracing a holistic vision, it aims to incorporate ecological processes and socio-ecological aspects, considering the benefits of public engagement through citizen science, and of the ecosystem services approach for policies’ implementation. The study stems from the Ecological Observing System of the Adriatic Sea (ECOAdS), which was developed in the framework of the Interreg Italy-Croatia project ECOSS, using as exemplary monitoring test cases two relevant conservation targets for Natura 2000 sites of the Adriatic Sea, the common bottlenose dolphin and seagrass meadows. We test the potential of this approach in guiding the prioritization of monitoring variables under ecosystem-based criteria, and provide insights into the benefits delivered by an integrated system of observatories’ networks and monitoring frameworks to support marine conservation at both local and regional scales. The proposed approach can be transferred to other contexts and scales to help build a common knowledge and monitoring framework for conservation and management strategies, saving costs by relying on available resources and on consolidated and long-lasting approaches that might converge towards global initiatives.

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2022
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4. Corrigendum: ILTER – The International Long-Term Ecological Research Network as a Platform for Global Coastal and Ocean Observation

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José H. Muelbert, Nicholas J. Nidzieko, Alicia T. R. Acosta, Stace E. Beaulieu, Angelo F. Bernardino, Elmira Boikova, Thomas G. Bornman, Bruno Cataletto, Klaas Deneudt, Erika Eliason, Alexandra Kraberg, Masahiro Nakaoka, Alessandra Pugnetti, Olivier Ragueneau, Mirco Scharfe, Thomas Soltwedel, Heidi M. Sosik, Angela Stanisci, Kremena Stefanova, Pierre Stéphan, Adrian Stier, Johan Wikner, and Adriana Zingone

Subjects
climate change, marine ecosystems, ecology, EOVs, SWOT, DEIMS, Science, General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution, QH1-199.5
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2020
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5. ILTER – The International Long-Term Ecological Research Network as a Platform for Global Coastal and Ocean Observation

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José H. Muelbert, Nicholas J. Nidzieko, Alicia T. R. Acosta, Stace E. Beaulieu, Angelo F. Bernardino, Elmira Boikova, Thomas G. Bornman, Bruno Cataletto, Klaas Deneudt, Erika Eliason, Alexandra Kraberg, Masahiro Nakaoka, Alessandra Pugnetti, Olivier Ragueneau, Mirco Scharfe, Thomas Soltwedel, Heidi M. Sosik, Angela Stanisci, Kremena Stefanova, Pierre Stéphan, Adrian Stier, Johan Wikner, and Adriana Zingone

Subjects
climate change, marine ecosystems, ecology, EOVs, SWOT, DEIMS, Science, General. Including nature conservation, geographical distribution, QH1-199.5
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Understanding the threats to global biodiversity and ecosystem services posed by human impacts on coastal and marine environments requires the establishment and maintenance of ecological observatories that integrate the biological, physical, geological, and biogeochemical aspects of ecosystems. This is crucial to provide scientists and stakeholders with the support and knowledge necessary to quantify environmental change and its impact on the sustainable use of the seas and coasts. In this paper, we explore the potential for the coastal and marine components of the International Long-Term Ecological Research Network (ILTER) to fill this need for integrated global observation, and highlight how ecological observations are necessary to address the challenges posed by climate change and evolving human needs and stressors within the coastal zone. The ILTER is a global network encompassing 44 countries and 700 research sites in a variety of ecosystems across the planet, more than 100 of which are located in coastal and marine environments (ILTER-CMS). While most of the ILTER-CMS were established after the year 2000, in some cases they date back to the early 1900s. At ILTER sites, a broad variety of abiotic and biotic variables are measured, which may feed into other global initiatives. The ILTER community has produced tools to harmonize and compare measurements and methods, allowing for data integration workflows and analyses between and within individual ILTER sites. After a brief historical overview of ILTER, with emphasis on the marine component, we analyze the potential contribution of the ILTER-CMS to global coastal and ocean observation, adopting the “Strength, Weakness, Opportunity and Threats (SWOT)” approach. We also identify ways in which the in situ parameters collected at ILTER sites currently fit within the Essential Ocean Variables framework (as proposed by the Framework for Ocean Observation recommendations) and provide insights on the use of new technology in long-term studies. Final recommendations point at the need to further develop observational activities at LTER sites and improve coordination among them and with external related initiatives in order to maximize their exploitation and address present and future challenges in ocean observations.

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2019
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7. Plankton dynamics across the freshwater, transitional and marine research sites of the LTER-Italy Network. Patterns, fluctuations, drivers

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Francesca Margiotta, Mauro Bastianini, Antonella Gesuina Laura Lugliè, Iole Di Capua, Marina Cabrini, Paolo Povero, Diana Sarno, Michela Castellano, Mauro Marini, Giampaolo Rossetti, Alessandra de Olazabal, Alessandro Ludovisi, Ilaria Rosati, Elena Stanca, Mariano Bresciani, Nico Salmaso, Alessandra Pugnetti, Marina Giallain, Marina Manca, Cecilia Totti, Cecilia Teodora Satta, Antonia Concetta Elia, Mara Marzocchi, Marco Pansera, Nicola Sechi, Silvia Pulina, Federica Grilli, Giuseppe Morabito, Ulrike Obertegger, Valentina Tirelli, Genuario Belmonte, Daniela Fornasaro, Barbara Leoni, Tiziana Romagnoli, Maria Antonietta Mariani, Fabrizio Bernardi Aubry, Carmela Caroppo, Caterina Bergami, M. Lipizer, Bachisio Mario Padedda, Isabella Bertani, Elisa Camatti, Fabio Buzzi, Bruno Cataletto, Roberta Piscia, Paola Del Negro, Maria Grazia Mazzocchi, Giovanna Flaim, Alberto Basset, Alessandro Oggioni, Adriana Zingone, Fernando Rubino, Stefano Accoroni, Lorenzo Longobardi, Giuseppe, Morabito, Maria Grazia Mazzocchi, Nico, Salmaso, Adriana, Zingone, Caterina, Bergami, Giovanna, Flaim, Stefano, Accoroni, Basset, Alberto, Mauro, Bastianini, Belmonte, Genuario, Fabrizio Bernardi Aubry, Isabella, Bertani, Mariano, Bresciani, Fabio, Buzzi, Marina, Cabrini, Elisa, Camatti, Carmela, Caroppo, Bruno, Cataletto, Michela, Castellano, Paola Del Negro, Alessandra de Olazabal, Iole Di Capua, Antonia Concetta Elia, Daniela, Fornasaro, Marina, Giallain, Federica, Grilli, Barbara, Leoni, Marina, Lipizer, Lorenzo, Longobardi, Alessandro, Ludovisi, Antonella, Lugliè, Marina, Manca, Francesca, Margiotta, Maria Antonietta Mariani, Mauro, Marini, Mara, Marzocchi, Ulrike, Obertegger, Alessandro, Oggioni, Bachisio Mario Padedda, Marco, Pansera, Roberta, Piscia, Paolo, Povero, Silvia, Pulina, Tiziana, Romagnoli, Rosati, Ilaria, Giampaolo, Rossetti, Fernando, Rubino, Diana, Sarno, Cecilia Teodora Satta, Sechi, Nicola, Stanca, Elena, Valentina, Tirelli, Cecilia, Totti, Alessandra, Pugnetti, Morabito, G, Mazzocchi, M, Salmaso, N, Zingone, A, Bergami, C, Flaim, G, Accoroni, S, Basset, A, Bastianini, M, Belmonte, G, Bernardi Aubry, F, Bertani, I, Bresciani, M, Buzzi, F, Cabrini, M, Camatti, E, Caroppo, C, Cataletto, B, Castellano, M, Del Negro, P, de Olazabal, A, Di Capua, I, Elia, A, Fornasaro, D, Giallain, M, Grilli, F, Leoni, B, Lipizer, M, Longobardi, L, Ludovisi, A, Lugliè, A, Manca, M, Margiotta, F, Mariani, M, Marini, M, Marzocchi, M, Obertegger, U, Oggioni, A, Padedda, B, Pansera, M, Piscia, R, Povero, P, Pulina, S, Romagnoli, T, Rosati, I, Rossetti, G, Rubino, F, Sarno, D, Satta, C, Sechi, N, Stanca, E, Tirelli, V, Totti, C, and Pugnetti, A

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0106 biological sciences, LTER-Italy aquatic site, Environmental Engineering, Freshwater inflow, 010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences, LTER-Italy, Population Dynamics, Aquatic ecosystem, Ecological succession, LTER, 01 natural sciences, Zooplankton, Settore BIO/07 - ECOLOGIA, Phytoplankton, Environmental Chemistry, Animals, Ecosystem, Waste Management and Disposal, 0105 earth and related environmental sciences, Driving factors, Ecology, seasonality, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, plankton, fungi, Pelagic zone, Plankton, Pollution, Mesozooplankton, Aquatic ecosystems, Italy, long term changes, Aquatic ecosystems, LTER-Italy, Mesozooplankton, Phytoplankton, Environmental science, BIO/07 - ECOLOGIA, BIO/05 - ZOOLOGIA, Environmental Monitoring
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A first synoptic and trans-domain overview of plankton dynamics was conducted across the aquatic sites belonging to the Italian Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTER-Italy). Based on published studies, checked and complemented with unpublished information, we investigated phytoplankton and zooplankton annual dynamics and long-term changes across domains: from the large subalpine lakes to mountain lakes and artificial lakes, from lagoons to marine coastal ecosystems. This study permitted identifying common and unique environmental drivers and ecological functional processes controlling seasonal and long-term temporal course. The most relevant patterns of plankton seasonal succession were revealed, showing that the driving factors were nutrient availability, stratification regime, and freshwater inflow. Phytoplankton and mesozooplankton displayed a wide interannual variability at most sites. Unidirectional or linear long-term trends were rarely detected but all sites were impacted across the years by at least one, but in many case several major stressor(s): nutrient inputs, meteo-climatic variability at the local and regional scale, and direct human activities at specific sites. Different climatic and anthropic forcings frequently co-occurred, whereby the responses of plankton communities were the result of this environmental complexity. Overall, the LTER investigations are providing an unparalleled framework of knowledge to evaluate changes in the aquatic pelagic systems and management options.

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2017
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8. Ecosystem vulnerability to alien and invasive species: a case study on marine habitats along the Italian coast

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Nicola Sechi, Ferdinando Boero, Elisa Camatti, Daniela Fornasaro, Carlotta Nonnis-Marzano, Valentina Tirelli, Riccardo Cattaneo Vietti, Bruno Cataletto, Stefano Piraino, Maria Mercurio, Silvia Pulina, Enrico Barbone, Antonella Petrocelli, Cecilia Totti, Valerio Zupo, Mauro Bastianini, Maria Cristina Buia, Luigi Musco, Stefano Accoroni, Maurizio Lorenti, Anna Maria Bazzoni, Maria Cristina Gambi, Marina Cabrini, Giorgio Alabiso, Cecilia Teodora Satta, Alessandra Pugnetti, Cataldo Pierri, Rosanna Guglielmo, Porzia Maiorano, Angelo Tursi, Tamara Cibic, Cinzia Gravili, Giorgio Bavestrello, Cristina Munari, Alberto Basset, Giuseppe Corriero, Tiziana Romagnoli, Ilaria Rosati, Michele Mistri, Adriana Zingone, Frine Cardone, Nicola Ungaro, Francesco Mastrototaro, Simonetta Fraschetti, Maria Grazia Mazzocchi, Giuseppe Portacci, Antonio Terlizzi, Francesco Paolo Patti, Bachisio Mario Padedda, Caterina Longo, Paolo Colangelo, Nicola Fiore, M. Monti, Fabrizio Bernardi Aubry, Gianfranco D'Onghia, Stefano Schiaparelli, Antonella Gesuina Laura Lugliè, Diana Sarno, Adriana Giangrande, Alessandra de Olazabal, Letizia Sion, Beatrice Scipione, Ester Cecere, and Stefania Finotto

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0106 biological sciences, Ecology, Phylum, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, Vulnerability, Marine habitats, Alien, Aquatic Science, Biology, 010603 evolutionary biology, 01 natural sciences, Invasive species, Fishery, Period (geology), Ecosystem, Alien species, Nature and Landscape Conservation
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Spread of alien species (AS) is a serious threat to marine habitats and analysis of principal descriptors of their occurrence is pivotal to set reliable conservation strategies. 2. In order to assess the susceptibility of marine habitats to biological invasions, a dataset was gathered of the occurrence of 3899 species from 29 phyla, taken from 93 marine sites located along the Italian coast in the period 2000-2012.

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2015
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9. Ecosystem vulnerability to alien and invasive species: a case study on marine habitats along the Italian coast

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GIUSEPPE CORRIERO, CATALDO PIERRI, STEFANO ACCORONI, GIORGIO ALABISO, GIORGIO BAVESTRELLO, ENRICO BARBONE, MAURO BASTIANINI, ANNA MARIA BAZZONI, FABRIZIO BERNARDI AUBRY, FERDINANDO BOERO, MARIA CRISTINA BUIA, MARINA CABRINI, ELISA CAMATTI, FRINE CARDONE, BRUNO CATALETTO, RICCARDO CATTANEO VIETTI, ESTER CECERE, TAMARA CIBIC, PAOLO COLANGELO, ALESSANDRA DE OLAZABAL, GIANFRANCO D'ONGHIA, STEFANIA FINOTTO, NICOLA FIORE, DANIELA FORNASARO, SIMONETTA FRASCHETTI, MARIA CRISTINA GAMBI, ADRIANA GIANGRANDE, CINZIA GRAVILI, ROSANNA GUGLIELMO, CATERINA LONGO, MAURIZIO LORENTI, ANTONELLA LUGLIÈ, PORZIA MAIORANO, MARIA GRAZIA MAZZOCCHI, MARIA MERCURIO, FRANCESCO MASTROTOTARO, MICHELE MISTRI, MARINA MONTI, CRISTINA MUNARI, LUIGI MUSCO, CARLOTTA NONNIS-MARZANO, BACHISIO MARIO PADEDDA, FRANCESCO PAOLO PATTI, ANTONELLA PETROCELLI, STEFANO PIRAINO, GIUSEPPE PORTACCI, ALESSANDRA PUGNETTI, SILVIA PULINA, TIZIANA ROMAGNOLI, ILARIA ROSATI, DIANA SARNO, CECILIA TEODORA SATTA, NICOLA SECHI, STEFANO SCHIAPPARELLI, BEATRICE SCIPIONE, LETIZIA SION, ANTONIO TERLIZZI, VALENTINA TIRELLI, CECILIA TOTTI, ANGELO TURSI, NICOLA UNGARO, ADRIANA ZINGONE, VALERIO ZUPO, ALBERTO BASSET, Corriero, Giuseppe, Pierri, Cataldo, Accoroni, Stefano, Alabiso, Giorgio, Bavestrello, Giorgio, Barbone, Enrico, Bastianini, Mauro, Bazzoni, Anna Maria, Bernardi Aubry, Fabrizio, Boero, Ferdinando, Buia, Maria Cristina, Cabrini, Marina, Camatti, Elisa, Cardone, Frine, Cataletto, Bruno, Cattaneo Vietti, Riccardo, Cecere, Ester, Cibic, Tamara, Colangelo, Paolo, De Olazabal, Alessandra, D'Onghia, Gianfranco, Finotto, Stefania, Fiore, Nicola, Fornasaro, Daniela, Fraschetti, Simonetta, Gambi, Maria Cristina, Giangrande, Adriana, Gravili, Cinzia, Guglielmo, Rosanna, Longo, Caterina, Lorenti, Maurizio, Lugliè, Antonella, Maiorano, Porzia, Mazzocchi, Maria Grazia, Mercurio, Maria, Mastrototaro, Francesco, Mistri, Michele, Monti, Marina, Munari, Cristina, Musco, Luigi, Nonnis Marzano, Carlotta, Padedda, Bachisio Mario, Patti, Francesco Paolo, Petrocelli, Antonella, Piraino, Stefano, Portacci, Giuseppe, Pugnetti, Alessandra, Pulina, Silvia, Romagnoli, Tiziana, Rosati, Ilaria, Sarno, Diana, Satta, Cecilia Teodora, Sechi, Nicola, Schiaparelli, Stefano, Scipione, Beatrice, Sion, Letizia, Terlizzi, Antonio, Tirelli, Valentina, Totti, Cecilia, Tursi, Angelo, Ungaro, Nicola, Zingone, Adriana, Zupo, Valerio, Basset, Alberto, Bazzoni Anna, Maria, Buia Maria, Cristina, Gambi Maria, Cristina, Mazzocchi Maria, Grazia, Padedda Bachisio, Mario, Patti Francesco, Paolo, and Satta Cecilia, Teodora

Subjects
invasive alien species, Mediterranean EUNIS habitat, marine alien specie, marine alien species, invasion, Mediterranean EUNIS habitats, habitat vulnerability, invasive alien specie
Abstract

1. Spread of alien species (AS) is a serious threat to marine habitats and analysis of principal descriptors of their occurrence is pivotal to set reliable conservation strategies. 2. In order to assess the susceptibility of marine habitats to biological invasions, a dataset was gathered of the occurrence of 3899 species from 29 phyla, taken from 93 marine sites located along the Italian coast in the period 2000–2012. 3. In total, 61 AS belonging to 11 phyla have been recorded. Invertebrates were the most represented (63%). Alien species were found in all the habitats examined (EUNIS, level 2), although they showed highest abundance in benthic habitats. Most of the AS were associated with a single EUNIS habitat, while some of them were present in more than one habitat. Trans-habitat occurrence suggests the potential invasiveness of AS. 4. According to statistical analysis, AS recorded could have been more numerous, since some of the marine habitats seemed to be still unsaturated. The model that best describes the spread of AS takes account of both native species richness (Rn) and EUNIS habitat type as explanatory variables. The number of observed AS was directly related to Rn and it was highest in rocky circalittoral and infralittoral habitats. 5. The results of this macro-ecological study focus on the importance of performing large-scale studies, since adopting ecosystem approaches to marine invasion management seems especially fruitful. 6. The results, moreover, highlight the importance of AS monitoring of different habitats, from those subjected to anthropogenic pressure, historically considered to be hubs of introduction of AS, to the most biologically rich and diverse marine habitats. Indeed, it is necessary to set monitoring strategies to detect the introduction, the distribution and persistence of AS over time. These recommendations are especially significant in the light of the strategic plans currently under formulation in Mediterranean countries with regard to AS monitoring

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2016
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10. The Ocean Sampling Day Consortium

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Oleksandra Bobrova, Petra ten Hoopen, Rodrigo Costa, Rania Siam, Rehab Z. Abdallah, Jorge A. Herrera Silveira, Catarina Magalhães, Nedime Serakinci, Marie E. DeLorenzo, Riccardo Rosselli, Paul Malthouse, Lise Øvreås, Eyjólfur Reynisson, Susan Gebbels, Francesca Malfatti, Frank Oliver Glöckner, Federico M. Lauro, Hans Erik Karlsen, David Wallom, Christian Jeanthon, Mark J. Costello, Fergal O'Gara, Nadezhda Todorova, Ana C. Costa, Monia El Bour, Paul D. van Ruth, Ivaylo Kostadinov, Martin Ostrowski, Jed A. Fuhrman, Viggo Marteinsson, Thierry Cariou, Hiroyuki Ogata, Maria Luiza Pedrotti, Emilie Villar, Federico Baltar, Sandi Orlić, Valentina Turk, Katja Lehmann, Dawn Field, Renzo Kottmann, Florence Jude-Lemeilleur, Daniel Vaulot, Alessandro Vezzi, Neil M Davies, Mahrous M. Kandil, Véronique Berteaux-Lecellier, Christopher D. Sinigalliano, Timothy W. Davis, Peter N. Golyshin, Stéphane L'Haridon, Jonathan A. Martinez, Sandra Ramos, Pascal Conan, Ma. Leopoldina Aguirre-Macedo, Antonio Fernandez-Guerra, Soumya Essayeh, Clara Loureiro, Edvardsen Bente, Noureddine Boukhatem, Rachelle M. Jensen, Sophie Pitois, Bouchra Chaouni, Kate Munnik, Anke Kremp, Stephane Pesant, Roberto Danovaro, Cecilia Alonso, Said Barrijal, Jodie van de Kamp, Michail M. Yakimov, Nicole J. Poulton, Zackary I. Johnson, Adriana Zingone, Bernardo Duarte, Ilkay Salihoglu, Paraskevi N. Polymenakou, Jack A. Gilbert, Melody S. Clark, Ian Salter, Hassan Ghazal, Julie LaRoche, J. Mortelmans, Ranjith Edirisinghe, Grazia Marina Quero, Dion Matthew Frederick Frampton, Isabel Caçador, Georgios Tsiamis, Declan C. Schroeder, Jamie Hinks, Ana Martins, Noga Stambler, Rachel Collin, João Canning-Clode, Tinkara Tinta, Mesude Bicak, Scott Jones, Valentina Amaral, Matthias S. Ullrich, Gunnar Gerdts, Klaas Deneudt, Michael Steinke, Mohamed Bennani, Rafael Santana, Fabio De Pascale, Jennifer Tolman, Juan Iriberri, Levente Bodrossy, Abderrahim Bouali, Antonella Penna, Bruno Cataletto, Josep M. Gasol, Florencia Biancalana, Maribeth L. Gidley, Stephen A. Jackson, Mahmut Cerkez Ergoren, Carolin R. Löscher, Antje Wichels, Ventzislav Karamfilov, R. Eric Collins, Sara Ettamimi, Riccardo Schiavon, Mohammed Timinouni, Christina Bienhold, Julia Schnetzer, Marc E. Frischer, Wayne J. Fuller, Simon Claus, Ibon Cancio, Guy Cochrane, Patrick Martin, Gian Marco Luna, Snejana Moncheva, Linda A. Amaral-Zettler, Eva C. Sonnenschein, Paul Anders Fronth Nyhus, Shiao Y. Wang, Antonina Dos Santos, Eyal Rahav, Eileen Bresnan, Anna Kopf, Barker Katherine, Michèle Barbier, Naiara Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, Kemal Can Bizsel, Tim Ingleton, Patricia Wecker, Julia A. Busch, Kelly D. Goodwin, El Houcine Zaid, Rajaa Chahboune, Takashi Yoshida, Fatima El Otmani, Marianna Mea, Nina Dzhembekova, Anne-Lise Ducluzeau, Christopher P. Meyer, Georgios Kotoulas, Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology, Max-Planck-Gesellschaft, Jacobs University [Bremen], University of Oxford, Centre for Ecology & Hydrology, Oxfordshire UK, Adaptation et diversité en milieu marin (AD2M), Station biologique de Roscoff [Roscoff] (SBR), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research (IOLR), Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung (AWI), Hellenic Centre for Marine Research (HCMR), American University in Cairo, Danmarks Tekniske Universitet = Technical University of Denmark (DTU), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), University College Cork (UCC), Curtin University [Perth], Planning and Transport Research Centre (PATREC), Institut Ruder Boskovic, Institut Ruđer Bošković (IRB), University of Essex, Carl Von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg = Carl von Ossietzky University of Oldenburg (OFFIS), Universidade de Lisboa = University of Lisbon (ULISBOA), Smithonian Environmental Research Center, Research Center, Odessa National I.I.Mechnikov University, Matis Ltd, Universidade dos Açores, Istituto di Science Marine (ISMAR ), National Research Council of Italy | Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research [Kiel] (GEOMAR), Finnish Environment Institute (SYKE), National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), University of Bergen (UiB), Dalhousie University [Halifax], Università di Urbino, Skidaway Institute of Oceanography, Smithsonian Institution, Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research [Matosinhos, Portugal] (CIIMAR), Universidade do Porto = University of Porto, Environnements et Paléoenvironnements OCéaniques (EPOC), Observatoire aquitain des sciences de l'univers (OASU), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1 (UB)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Université Paris sciences et lettres (PSL)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Centro de Investigacion y de Estudios Avanzados del Instituto Politécnico Nacional (CINVESTAV), Mississippi State University [Mississippi], Bigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, Smithsonian Marine Station, Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, University of Southern California (USC), Laboratoire d'Océanographie Microbienne (LOMIC), Observatoire océanologique de Banyuls (OOB), Universidad de la República [Montevideo] (UDELAR), Bar-Ilan University [Israël], The Interuniversity Institute for marine Science in Eilat, IAMC-CNR, Istituto per l'Ambiente Marino Costiero &ndash, University of Otago [Dunedin, Nouvelle-Zélande], Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organisation [Canberra] (CSIRO), Macquarie University, South Australian Research and Development Institute (SARDI), South Australian Research and Development Institute, Flanders Marine Institute, VLIZ, Centre for Environment, Fisheries and Aquaculture Science [Weymouth] (CEFAS), University of Algarve [Portugal], Marine Biological Association of the UK, Department of Chemistry, Alexandria University [Alexandrie], Argentine Institute of Oceanography, Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), Observatoire océanologique de Villefranche-sur-mer (OOVM), Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Kyoto University, University of Tasmania [Hobart, Australia] (UTAS), Waters, wetlands & coasts Sydney, Lwande technologies Cape Town, AZTI (AZTI), AZTI, Centre de recherches insulaires et observatoire de l'environnement (CRIOBE), Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-École Pratique des Hautes Études (EPHE), University of the Basque Country/Euskal Herriko Unibertsitatea (UPV/EHU), Université Mohammed Premier [Oujda], Université Mohammed V de Rabat [Agdal] (UM5), Université Sidi Mohamed Ben Abdellah (USMBA), Université Abdelmalek Essaâdi (UAE), Institut Pasteur du Maroc, Réseau International des Instituts Pasteur (RIIP), Faculty of Sciences, Rabat, Morocco., Bulgarian Academy of Sciences (BAS), European Bioinformatics Institute [Hinxton] (EMBL-EBI), EMBL Heidelberg, Université de Brest (UBO), Dokuz Eylül Üniversitesi = Dokuz Eylül University [Izmir] (DEÜ), Università degli Studi di Padova = University of Padua (Unipd), Singapore centre for environmental life sciences engineering, Nanyang Technological University [Singapour], Indigo V Expeditions, Newcastle University [Newcastle], Instituto Português de Investigação do Mar e da Atmosfera (IPMA), Information génomique et structurale (IGS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universität Bremen, Istituto Nazionale di Geofisica e di Oceanografia Sperimentale (OGS), Rajarata University of Sri-Lanka (RUSL), University of Southern Mississippi (USM), Mediterranean Science Commission, National institute of biology Fornace, Near East University, Marine Scotland Marine Laboratory, Kind of Blue Project ABS, University of Oslo (UiO), Marine biology research station, Bangor University, Institute of Marine Sciences / Institut de Ciències del Mar [Barcelona] (ICM), Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas [Madrid] (CSIC), Fridtjof Nansen Institute of oceanology, Duke University [Durham], Miami University, Miami University [Ohio] (MU), Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn (SZN), Polytechnic University of Marche, University of Patras, British Antarctic Survey (BAS), Natural Environment Research Council (NERC), INSTIM, University of Alaska [Fairbanks] (UAF), University of Hawaii, University of Auckland [Auckland], Marine Biological Laboratory (MBL), University of Chicago, Brown University, Zhejiang University, Argonne National Laboratory [Lemont] (ANL), Department of Mathematics [Berkeley], University of California [Berkeley] (UC Berkeley), University of California (UC)-University of California (UC), Repositório da Universidade de Lisboa, Kopf, A, Bicak, M, Kottmann, R, Schnetzer, J, Kostadinov, I, Lehmann, K, Fernandez-Guerra, A, Jeanthon, C, Rahav, E, Ullrich, M, Wichels, A, Gerdts, G, Polymenakou, P, Kotoulas, G, Siam, R, Abdallah, Rz, Sonnenschein, Ec, Cariou, T, O'Gara, F, Jackson, S, Orlic, S, Steinke, M, Busch, J, Duarte, B, Cacador, I, Canning-Clode, J, Bobrova, O, Marteinsson, V, Reynisson, E, Loureiro, Cm, Luna, Gm, Quero, Gm, Loscher, Cr, Kremp, A, Delorenzo, Me, Ovreas, L, Tolman, J, Laroche, J, Penna, A, Frischer, M, Davis, T, Katherine, B, Meyer, Cp, Ramos, S, Magalhaes, C, Jude-Lemeilleur, F, Aguirre-Macedo, Ml, Wang, S, Poulton, N, Jones, S, Collin, R, Fuhrman, Ja, Conan, P, Alonso, C, Stambler, N, Goodwin, K, Yakimov, Mm, Baltar, F, Bodrossy, L, Van De Kamp, J, Frampton, Dmf, Ostrowski, M, Van Ruth, P, Malthouse, P, Claus, S, Deneudt, K, Mortelmans, J, Pitois, S, Wallom, D, Salter, I, Costa, R, Schroeder, Dc, Kandil, Mm, Amaral, V, Biancalana, F, Santana, R, Pedrotti, Ml, Yoshida, T, Ogata, H, Ingleton, T, Munnik, K, Rodriguez-Ezpeleta, N, Berteaux-Lecellier, V, Wecker, P, Cancio, I, Vaulot, D, Bienhold, C, Ghazal, H, Chaouni, B, Essayeh, S, Ettamimi, S, Zaid, E, Boukhatem, N, Bouali, A, Chahboune, R, Barrijal, S, Timinouni, M, El Otmani, F, Bennani, M, Mea, M, Todorova, N, Karamfilov, V, ten Hoopen, P, Cochrane, G, L'Haridon, S, Bizsel, Kc, Vezzi, A, Lauro, Fm, Martin, P, Jensen, Rm, Hinks, J, Gebbels, S, Rosselli, R, De Pascale, F, Schiavon, R, dos Santos, A, Villar, E, Pesant, S, Cataletto, B, Malfatti, F, Edirisinghe, R, Silveira, Jah, Barbier, M, Turk, V, Tinta, T, Fuller, Wj, Salihoglu, I, Serakinci, N, Ergoren, Mc, Bresnan, E, Iriberri, J, Nyhus, Paf, Bente, E, Karlsen, He, Golyshin, Pn, Gasol, Jm, Moncheva, S, Dzhembekova, N, Johnson, Z, Sinigalliano, Cd, Gidley, Ml, Zingone, A, Danovaro, R, Tsiamis, G, Clark, M, Costa, Ac, El Bour, M, Martins, Am, Collins, Re, Ducluzeau, Al, Martinez, J, Costello, Mj, Amaral-Zettler, La, Gilbert, Ja, Davies, N, Field, D, Glockner, Fo, European Commission, University of Oxford [Oxford], Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research - IOLR (ISRAEL), Danmarks Tekniske Universitet (DTU), Carl Von Ossietzky Universität Oldenburg, Universidade de Lisboa (ULISBOA), Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche (CNR), Universidade do Porto, UMR 5805 Environnements et Paléoenvironnements Océaniques et Continentaux (EPOC), Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Sciences et Technologies - Bordeaux 1-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), Universidad de la República [Montevideo] (UCUR), Kyoto University [Kyoto], Université de Perpignan Via Domitia (UPVD)-École pratique des hautes études (EPHE), University of Mohammed V, Sidi Mohammed Ben Abdellah University, Universita degli Studi di Padova, Rajarata University of Sri-Lanka, University of Patras [Patras], University of California [Berkeley], and University of California-University of California

Subjects
0106 biological sciences, Biodiversity, Marine life, 01 natural sciences, Bacteria, Genomics, Health Index, Marine, Metagenomics, Micro B3, Microorganism, OSD, Ocean sampling day, Standards, 11. Sustainability, Data and Information, Ocean Sampling Day, biodiversity, genomics, health index, bacteria, microorganism, metagenomics, marine, standards, [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean, Atmosphere, 0303 health sciences, Ecology, Environmental resource management, Geology, Computer Science Applications, Interdisciplinary Natural Sciences, Microbial biodiversity, [SDV.MP]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Microbiology and Parasitology, Ocean sampling day, OSD, Biodiversity, Genomics, Health Index, Bacteria, Microorganism, Metagenomics,Marine, Micro B3, Standards, Oceans and Seas, Microorganisms, Marine Biology, Health Informatics, [SDV.BID]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Biodiversity, Biology, Ecology and Environment, Metagenomic, 03 medical and health sciences, Health index, Medisinske Fag: 700 [VDP], SDG 14 - Life Below Water, 14. Life underwater, 030304 developmental biology, business.industry, 010604 marine biology & hydrobiology, Ocean sampling, 13. Climate action, Commentary, Genomic, Database Management Systems, Global Ocean, business
Abstract

Kopf, Anna ... et. al.-- 5 pages, 1 figure.-- This manuscript is NOAA-GLERL contribution number 1763, Ocean Sampling Day was initiated by the EU-funded Micro B3 (Marine Microbial Biodiversity, Bioinformatics, Biotechnology) project to obtain a snapshot of the marine microbial biodiversity and function of the world’s oceans. It is a simultaneous global mega-sequencing campaign aiming to generate the largest standardized microbial data set in a single day. This will be achievable only through the coordinated efforts of an Ocean Sampling Day Consortium, supportive partnerships and networks between sites. This commentary outlines the establishment, function and aims of the Consortium and describes our vision for a sustainable study of marine microbial communities and their embedded functional traits, This work was supported by the Micro B3 project, which is funded from the European Union’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP7; Joint Call OCEAN.2011‐2: Marine microbial diversity – new insights into marine ecosystems functioning and its biotechnological potential) under the grant agreement no 287589

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2015
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12. Analysis phenological trends based on the aquatic environments of the European Long Term Ecosystem Network (LTER)

Author

Alessandro Oggioni, Isabella Bertani, Cristina Tortora, Miail Adamescu, Alessandro Campanaro, Paolo Colangelo, Manuela Coci, Fabrizio Bernardi Aubry, Mauro Bastianini, Roberto Bertoni, M. Americo Bravo, Marina Cabrini, Elisa Camatti, Bruno Cataletto, Constantin Cazacu, Claudia Cindolo, Ricardo Diaz-Delgado, Paola Focaccia, Yoana Georgieva, Ulf Grandin, Georgi Hiebaum, Ventzi Karamfilov, Marina Lipizer, Antonella Lugliè, Francesca Margiotta, Giuseppe Morabito, Bachisio M. Padedda, Karoly Palffy, Arja Palomaki, Kurt Pettersson, Alessandra Pugnetti, Mariangela Ravaioli, Francesco Riminucci, Michela Rogora, Pernilla Ronnback, Giampaolo Rossetti, Kimmo Tolonen, Laios Vros, Yang Yang, and Antonella Zingone

Subjects
Long term data, Phenology, LTER network
Abstract

In recent years, phenology has been proposed as an indicator to monitor systematically the state of the ecosystem and to detect changes triggered by perturbation of the environmental conditions. Recorded changes in the seasonal timing allowed often to evaluate re-organizations of communities and drastic alterations to ecosystem structure. The European LTER represents one of the most important network in the collection of long time series ecological in Europe. EnvEurope Life+ project is working to integrate and harmonize long-term ecological research initiatives at European level, focusing on understanding the status, changes and trends of ecosystems. This preliminary work give an example on how the Europe LTER networks can make a contribution to compare the effect of changes in physical forcing or climatic modes on the ecosystem around Europe. The aims of this study are to (i) provide a standardized assessment of the rates phenological indexes in the LTER Europe aquatic sites (ii) evaluate changes in phenological indexes in relationship with ecological drivers (climate indices and physical parameters). For this work were collected monthly data from 15 LTER sites for a period from the '80s to today. Before to start with statistical analysis, harmonization of units of measure and selection of the sites has been performed. Will present the results of the descriptive analysis, and the results about patterns and rates of phenological indexes.

Published
2013

14. Phenological variatons in aquatic LTER Sites

Author

Alessandro Oggioni, Isabella Bertani, Cristina Tortora, Miail Adamescu, Alessandro Campanaro, Cristiana Cocciufa, Paolo Colangelo, Manuela Coci, Fabrizio Bernardi Aubry, Mauro Bastianini, Roberto Bertoni, M. Americo Bravo, Marina Cabrini, Elisa Camatti, Bruno Cataletto, Constantin Cazacu, Claudia Cindolo, Ricardo Díaz-Delgado, Paola Focaccia, Yoana Georgieva, Ulf Grandin, Georgi Hiebaum, Ventzi Karamfilov, Marina Lipizer, Antonella Lugliè, Francesca Margiotta, Giuseppe Morabito, Bachisio M.Padedda, aroly Palffy, Arja Palomäki, Kurt Pettersson, Alessandra Pugnetti, Mariangela Ravaioli, Francesco Riminucci, Michela Rogora, Pernilla Rönnback, Giampaolo Rossetti, Kimmo Tolonen, Laios Vörös, Yang Yang, and Antonella Zingone

Subjects
Long term data, Phenology, LTER network
Abstract

In recent years, phenology has been proposed as an indicator to monitor systematically the state of the ecosystem and to detect changes triggered by perturbation of the environmental conditions. Recorded changes in the seasonal timing allowed often to evaluate re-organizations of communities and drastic alterations to ecosystem structure. The European LTER represents one of the most important network in the collection of long time series ecological in Europe. EnvEurope Life+ project is working to integrate and harmonize long-term ecological research initiatives at European level, focusing on understanding the status, changes and trends of ecosystems. This preliminary work give an example on how the Europe LTER networks can make a contribution to compare the effect of changes in physical forcing or climatic modes on the ecosystem around Europe. The aims of this study are to (i) provide a standardized assessment of the rates phenological indexes in the LTER Europe aquatic sites (ii) evaluate changes in phenological indexes in relationship with ecological drivers (climate indices and physical parameters). For this work were collected monthly data from 15 LTER sites for a period from the '80s to today. Before to start with statistical analysis, harmonization of units of measure and selection of the sites has been performed. Will present the results of the descriptive analysis, and the results about pattern and rates of phenological indexes.

Published
2013

15. The northern Adriatic sea: a long-term ecological research (LTER) site

Author

Mauro Bastianini 1, Alessandra Pugnetti 1, Fabrizio Bernardi Aubry 1, Elisa Camatti 1, Paola Focaccia 1, Giovanni Bortoluzzi 1, Cecilia Totti 2, Tiziana Romagnoli 2, Aniello Russo 2, Bruno Cataletto 3, Marina Lipizer 3, Mauro Marini 1, Carolina Cantoni 1, Fabio Raicich 1, and Mariangela Ravaioli 1

Published
2013

16. Assemblages' structure and activity of bacterioplankton in northern Adriatic Sea surface waters: a 3-year case study

Author

Mauro, Celussi, Andrea, Bussani, Bruno, Cataletto, and Paola, Del Negro

Subjects
Bacteria, Denaturing Gradient Gel Electrophoresis, Multivariate Analysis, Cluster Analysis, Seawater, North Sea, Seasons, Water Microbiology
Abstract

The bacterial community, both in terms of community structure (denaturing gradient gel electrophoresis fingerprinting) and activity (exoenzymatic hydrolysis of proteins, polysaccharides and phosphorylated molecules and leucine uptake), was investigated seasonally for 3 years (2004-2006) in a large-scale grid in the northern Adriatic Sea. A high variability characterized the spatial structure of bacterial assemblages and a scarce seasonality was found in all the nine studied stations. Bacterial communities were substantially diverse in the same season of the 3 years, in contrast to what was reported previously for oceanic sites. Assemblages were in general strongly affected by river inputs, especially in spring, when freshwater loads were higher. Finally, a close relationship was found between given assemblages and their patterns of degradation/production activities by applying a multivariate analysis (linear discriminant analysis) to the dataset. The high variability of bacterial community structures and patterns of activity may indicate an ecological response to the high dynamism that characterizes the basin both on a physical and on a biological basis.

Published
2010

17. Detection of pathogenic Vibrio parahaemolyticus through biochemical and molecular-based methodologies in coastal waters of the Gulf of Trieste (North Adriatic Sea)

Author

Cinzia, Fabbro, Bruno, Cataletto, and Paola, Del Negro

Subjects
Electrophoresis, Agar Gel, Virulence Factors, Oceans and Seas, Polymerase Chain Reaction, Sensitivity and Specificity, Bacterial Typing Techniques, DNA-Binding Proteins, Phenotype, Bacterial Proteins, Italy, Genes, Bacterial, RNA, Ribosomal, 16S, Vibrio parahaemolyticus, Water Microbiology, Transcription Factors
Abstract

Culturable vibrios were isolated from seawater collected during an annual sampling study performed along the Gulf of Trieste coast (Northern Adriatic Sea), and conventional culturing and identification methods were used to investigate the presence of Vibrio parahaemolyticus. Biochemically selected Vibrio strains were subjected to phenotypical identification performed using Alsina's scheme, API 20E and API 20NE. PCR and sequence analysis of the 16S rRNA gene and detection of the species-specific toxR and tlh genes were carried out on strains presumptively identified as V. parahaemolyticus and on a set of unidentified strains to confirm biochemical characterizations. In addition, PCR assays targeting the virulence genes, tdh and trh, were carried out to detect pathogenic strains. PCR results were compared with phenotypic characterizations to evaluate the accuracy of the biochemical methods applied. False-negative identifications were obtained by all phenotypic-based procedures, while API 20E yielded only one false positive. Because the amplification of the 16S rRNA gene produced uncertain results, toxR and tlh gene detections were necessary to confirm the biochemical identifications. Finally, molecular characterization demonstrated the presence of V. parahaemolyticus trh-positive strains and underlined the difficulty in the recognition of the pathogenic environmental organism using conventional methods.

Published
2010

19. The SBASE protein domain library, release 7.0: A collection of annotated protein sequence segments

Author

Murvai, J., Vlahovicek, K., Barta, E., Bruno CATALETTO, and Pongor, S.

Abstract

SBASE 7.0 is the seventh release of the SBASE protein domain library sequences that contains 237 937 annotated structural, functional, ligand-binding and topogenic segments of proteins, cross-referenced to all major sequence databases and sequence pattern collections. The entries are clustered into over 1811 groups and are provided with two WWW-based search facilities for on-line use. SBASE 7.0 is freely available by anonymous 'ftp' file transfer from ftp.icgeb. trieste.it. Automated searching of SBASE with BLAST can be carried out with the WWW servers http://www.icgeb.trieste.it/sbase/and http://sbase.abc.hu/sbase/

20. Toxicity of Mediterranean Scyphomedusae: An Overview.

Author

Negro PD, Saul C, Bruno C, Maria DG, and Franco K

Subjects
Animals, Bites and Stings chemically induced, Bites and Stings pathology, Humans, Cnidarian Venoms isolation & purification, Cnidarian Venoms toxicity, Scyphozoa
Abstract

Following in-depth analysis and examination, jellyfish toxins have been found to consist of a mixture of proteins, carbohydrates, and other non-proteinaceous components. What remains to be clarified is the specific chemical nature of jellyfish toxins due to their heat lability. This paper reviews current knowledge of the toxic properties of the most common Mediterranean scyphozoans (A. aurita, C. hysoscella, C. tuberculata, P. noctiluca, R. pulmo) and the activity of their venom.

Published
2016
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