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Presentamos una ordenación funcional de las cerá¬micas engobadas púnico-helenísticas de Cerdeña e Ibiza, ba¬sada en los abundantes trabajos existentes, así como en nues¬tra experiencia directa en Cerdeña (Pauli Stincus y Truncu e’Molas) e Ibiza (Can Vicent d’en Jaume). Pondremos es¬tas producciones en relación con otras similares del Medi¬terráneo Central y Occidental: costas del África mediterrá¬nea (Cartago, Orán, etc) y área del Estrecho (bahía de Cádiz, Lixus, Kuass). Se propone una evolución cronológica y una aproximación a los usos y funcionalidad de esta vajilla de mesa púnica. This paper offers the functional ordination of the slipped Punic-Hellenistic pottery produced in Sardinia and Ibiza, based on numerous published research and in our di¬rect experience in Sardinia (Pauli Stincus and Truncu e’ Mo¬las sites) and Ibiza (Can Vicent d’en Jaume). We will put this ceramics in relation to other centers of production of West¬ern and Central Mediterranean: African Mediterranean coast (Carthage, Oran) and Gibraltar Strait Area. We propose a chronological evolution and an approach to the use and func¬tionality of this Punic tableware.

7 pages, 5 figures, 3 tables, supplemental material https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2016.11.005, In recent years, negative impacts of jellyfish blooms (JB) on marine human activities have been increasingly reported. Aquaculture has been affected by jellyfish outbreaks, mostly documented through repeated episodes of farmed salmon mortalities in Northern Europe; however, the valuation of JB consequences on the aquaculture sector still remains poorly quantified. This study aims to provide the first quantitative evaluation effects of JB on finfish aquaculture in the Mediterranean Sea and to investigate the general awareness of JB impacts among Mediterranean aquaculture professional workers. The aquaculture workers' perception about JB was assessed through a structured interview-based survey administered across 21 aquaculture facilities in central and western Mediterranean. The workers' awareness about JB impacts on aquaculture differed among countries. Italian and Spanish fish farmers were better informed about jellyfish proliferations and, together with Tunisian farmers, they all recognized the wide potential consequences of JB on sea bream and sea bass aquaculture. On the contrary, the majority of Maltese respondents considered JB as a non-significant threat to their activity, mostly based on off-shore tuna farming. This study for the first time shows that JB may negatively affect different Mediterranean aquaculture facilities from Tunisia (Sicily Channel) and Spain (Alboran Sea), by increasing farmed fish gill disorders and mortality, clogging net cages, or inflicting painful stings to field operators, with severe economic consequences. Available knowledge calls for the development of coordinated preventive plans, adaptation policies, and mitigation countermeasures across European countries in order to address the JB phenomenon and its impacts on coastal water activities, This work has received funding from the European Union's projects MED-JELLYRISK (grant n. I-A/1.3/098 - ENPI CBCMED programme), VECTORS (Vectors of Change in Oceans and Seas Marine Life, Impact on Economic Sectors, grant n. 266445, FP7th programme), and CERES (Climate Change and European Aquatic Resources, grant n. 678193, Horizon 2020 programme)

Alnus glutinosa stands are common in riparian forests along the main Italian peninsular watercourses. In many sites of central and southern Italy, it is possible to observe interesting forest fragments not yet completely compromised by human alterations. The study pointed out the importance of the central Tyrrhenian sector of the Italian peninsula, both in floristic and vegetational terms, and highlighted the phytogeographical role of the deep valley as a significant habitat for the concentration of rare species. In the present paper, the structural, coenological and syntaxonomical features of the forest fragments occurring along the main and minor watercourses of northern volcanic Latium (Tolfa district) are described. Here, and similarly in the whole territory of the Tuscan and Latium Maremma, there are various populations of rare species on a regional and national level (Osmunda regalis, Blechnum spicant, Polystichum setiferum, Dryopteris filix-mas and Athyrium filix-foemina) that emphasize the gorge habitat with well-preserved riparian coenoses. The presence of many interesting species allowed us to assign the investigated communities to the Polysticho-Alnetum glutinosae (Osmundo-Alnion), a syntaxon rich in hygrophilous ferns that shows a strong resemblance with other alder woods with ferns described in various sites of the western Mediterranean area., Les bois d’aulne sont les forêts riveraines les plus diffusées au long des principaux fleuves de l’Italie péninsulaire. Dans beaucoup de sites de l’Italie centrale et méridionale on peut observer, même au long des cours d’eau mineurs, d’intéressants fragments de forêts qui ne sont pas encore entièrement compromis par l’action humaine. Cette étude relève l’importance du secteur Tyrrhénien de l’Italie centrale, au niveau floristique aussi qu’à celui végétationnel, et met en relief le rôle phytogéographique des vallons en tant qu’habitats utiles à la conservation des entités rares. Ce travail décrit les caractères physiognomiques, coenologiques et syntaxonomiques des fragments de forêts qui se trouvent au long de nombreux fleuves du Latium volcanique du nord (Tolfa). Ici, comme dans tout le territoire de la Maremma toscane et du Latium, on a plusieurs peuplements d’entités rares à l’échelle régionale et nationale (Osmunda regalis, Blechnum spicant, Polystichum setiferum, Dryopteris filix-mas et Athyrium filix-foemina) qui confirment l’existence de coenoses riveraines en état de bonne conservation. La présence de nombreuses entités intéressantes nous permet d’assigner les coenoses étudiées à l’association Polysticho-Alnetum glutinosae (alliance Osmundo-Alnion), un syntaxon riche en fougères hygrophiles qui montre la forte ressemblance avec les autres bois d’aulne avec fougères relevés en plusieurs sites de la Méditerranéen occidentale., Cutini Maurizio, Cancellieri Laura, Cioffi Maria-Teresa, Licursi Claudio. Phytosociology and phytogeography of fragmented Alnus glutinosa forests in a Tyrrhenian district (Central Italy). In: Ecologia mediterranea, tome 36 n°2, 2010. pp. 55-73.

The Sesleria autumnalis species complex belongs to Sesleria sect. Argenteae Deyl, “Turma” (=swarm) Argentea. According to Deyl, this Turma comprises the following species: S. argentea Savi, S. autumnalis (Scop.) F.W. Schultz, S. latifolia (Adam.) Degen, S. pontica Deyl, S. alba Sibth. & Sm. and S. anatolica Deyl. In the strict sense, S.autumnalis complex includes three closely related and morphologically similar species – S. autumnalis, S. argentea and S. tuzsonii Ujhelyi, which can be easily distinguished from other species of turma Argentea by very elongated and thin spikes (sometime even ten or more times longer than wider). Although recent relevant floristic literature and check-lists accept the existence of this three species, some authors consider taxa S. argentea and S. tuzonii as synonyms of S.autumnalis. The main aim of this study was to investigate the relationships among populations of the S. autumnalis species complex based on Amplified Fragment Length Polymorphism (AFLP) analysis. Our results show a clear differentiation between the Balkan populations (S. autumnalis s.str.) and the central and western Mediterranean ones (S. argentea, S. tuzsonii and S. autumnalis s.l.), thus supporting the opinion of those authors who considered that the Balkan and the Apennine populations of S. autumnalis are differentiated into two geographically distinct groups. Morphological, taxonomical, and biogeographical implications of these relationships are also discussed.