Zaira Da Ros 1; Emanuela Fanelli 1; *; Sacha Cassatella 1; Ilaria Biagiotti 2; Giovanni Canduci 2; Samuele Menicucci 2; Andrea De Felice 2; Sara Malavolti 2; Iole Leonori 2;

The Mediterranean is one of the most overfished seas of the world where mesopredators are severely threatened. The trophic strategies of four pelagic species that inhabit the Adriatic Sea (Scomber spp. and Trachurus spp.) were investigated through an integrated approach of stomach contents and stable isotopes analyses. Our study demonstrated that Scomber colias feeds mainly on strictly pelagic prey,...

Renzi M.; Pastorino P.; Provenza F.; Anselmi S.; Specchiulli A.; Cavallo A.;

Environmental diagnostics are commonly used to identify anthropogenic influences in various environmental settings. However, the use of a single survey technique is limiting and leads to an incomplete and often inaccurate picture of reality. In this study, three real cases analyzing impacts on marine ecosystems have been presented to prove how the integration of different diagnostic techniques can...

Provenza F.; Pastorino P.; Anselmi S.; Persiano M.L.; Scirocco T.; De Rinaldis G.; Fossi M.C.; Panti C.; Renzi M.; Specchiulli A.;

Transitional water ecosystems have low water exchanges and can trap chemicals and microplastics (MPs). In this study, MPs, trace elements, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon-PHAs levels and the oxidative stress response were assessed in Mytilus galloprovincialis from two Italian lagoon ecosystems (Orbetello and Varano). In addition, the ecotoxicological effects induced by the exposure of M. galloprovincialis...

Michail Ragkousis; Argyro Zenetos; Jamila Ben Souissi; Razy Hoffman; Raouia Ghanem; Ergün Ta?k?n; Mihaela Muresan; Evgeniia Karpova; Elena Slynko; Ertan Dagli; Ana Forti?; Victor Surugiu; Vesna Ma?i?; [Et al.]

To enrich spatio-temporal information on the distribution of alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species in the Mediterranean and the Black Sea, a collective effort by 173 marine scientists was made to provide unpublished records and make them open access to the scientific community. Through this effort, we collected and harmonized a dataset of 12,649 records. It includes 247 taxa, of which 217 are Animalia,...

Pulcinella J.; Armelloni E.N.; Ferra C.; Scarcella G.; Tassetti A.N.;

Deep-sea fishery in the Mediterranean Sea was historically driven by the commercial profitability of deepwater red shrimp (DWRS), and understanding spatiotemporal dynamics of fishing is key to comprehensively evaluate the status of these profitable resources and prevent stock collapse. A 4-year time series of observed monthly patterns and related frequency of trawling disturbance based on an automatic...

Aguzzi J.; Aristegui-Ezquibela M.; Burgos C.; Chatzievangelou D.; Doyle J.; Fallon N.; Fifas S.; González-Herraiz I.; Jonsson P.; Lundy M.; Martinelli M.; Medve?ek D.; Naseer A.; Nava E.; Nawri N.; Jónasson [Et al.]

The Working Group on Nephrops Surveys (WGNEPS) is the international coordination group for Nephrops underwater television and trawl surveys within ICES. This report summarizes the na-tional contributions on the results of the surveys conducted in 2022 together with time series covering all survey years, problems encountered, data quality checks and technological improve-ments as well as the planning...

Martinelli M.; Medve?ek D.; Domenichetti F.; Canduci G.; Giuliani G.; Zacchetti L.; Pieri G.; Belardinelli A.; Chiarini M.; Guicciardi S.; Grilli F.; Penna P.; Scarpini P.; Cvitani? R.; Isajlovic I.; Vrgoc [Et al.]

The Pomo (or Jabuka) Pits area is one of the main fishing ground for Norway Lobster Nephrops norvegicus and European hake Merluccius merluccius within the GFCM Geographical Sub Areas 17 (Northern and Central Adriatic Sea) and it is shared by the Italian and the Croatian fleets. Furthermore, this represents a well-known nursery area for M. merluccius and hosts a distinct population of N. norvegicus,...

Cappello S.; Smedile F.; Caruso G.. Patania S.; Lunetta A; ; Azzaro M.;

Within the Svalbard archipelago, the Kongsfjorden is an important marine ecosystem, that is recognised as one of the main representative Arctic glacial fjords. Prokaryotic organisms are key drivers of important ecological processes like carbon fluxes, nutrient mineralization and energy transfer as well as sentinels of environmental pollution, especially in sediments, that are a repository of contaminants....

Gai Francesco; Cusimano Giovanni Marco; Maricchiolo Giulia; Caccamo Letteria; Caimi Christian; Macchi Elisabetta; Meola Martina; Perdichizzi Anna; Tartarisco Gennaro; Gasco Laura;

A trial was performed to study the effects of a partially defatted Hermetia illucens (L. 1758) larvae meal (HIM) to replace a fish meal in the diet of an adult gilthead sea bream. The fish were fed for 120 days with diets containing HIM: 0% (CTRL), 25 (HI25), 50 (HI50), and 75% (HI75), corresponding to inclusion levels of 0, 9.2, 18.4, and 27.6%. A digestibility trial was carried out to evaluate the...

Specchiulli A.; Pastorino P.; De Rinaldis G.; Scirocco T.; Anselmi S.; Cilenti L.; Ungaro N.; Renzi M.;

Lagoon environments, like all the marine-coastal areas, offer a wide variety of ecosystem services, but at the same time are affected by pressing human activities that lead to deterioration of the environmental quality, loss of biodiversity, habitat destruction and pollution. Since the well-being of population and local economy depend on the environmental status of these ecosystems, it is essential...

De Felice, Andrea; Manini, Elena; Biagiotti, Ilaria; Leonori, Iole;

Krill species are key organisms in the Antarctic food web. Biochemical composition in terms of lipids, proteins, carbohydrates, and fatty acids and its implications for spatial distribution were investigated in specimens of Euphausia superba and Euphausia crystallorophias collected in the Ross Sea and the adjacent Pacific region during an acoustic survey carried out within the framework of the 19th...

Martinelli M. (1); Zacchetti L. (1); Belardinelli A. (1); Domenichetti F. (1); Scarpini P. (1); Penna P. (1); Medve?ek D. (2); Isajlovic I. (2); Vrgoc N. (2);

Marine resources exploitation through bottom trawling affects marine ecosystems; thus, management should consider the presence of sensitive species as ecosystem health indicators. Epibenthic organisms such as sea pens are widely used to assess benthic conditions, as their populations are declining where trawling is intense. The Pomo/Jabuka Pits fishing ground in the Adriatic Sea, subject to various...

Andrea De Giovanni; Vincenzo Iannuzzi; Gianni Gallello; Cristina Giuliani; Mauro Marini; M. Luisa Cervera; Donata Luiselli;

Seafood constitutes the primary source of exposure to the organic form of mercury in the general population, and the Trieste Gulf is considered a hotspot of mercury contamination. We used a newly developed quantitative food frequency questionnaire to obtain an estimation of the intake of mercury through seafood consumption in a sample of 32 individuals from Trieste. Then, we validated the results obtained...

Cloetingh S.[1]; Sternai P.[2]; Koptev A.[3]; Ehlers T.A.[4; 5]; Gerya T.[6]; Kovacs I.[7]; Oerlemans J.[8]; Beekman F.[1]; Lavallée Y.[9; 10]; Dingwell D.[10]; Békési E.[11; 1]; Porkoláb K.[11; 1]; [Et al.]

Understanding the interactions between surface and deep Earth processes is important for research in many diverse scientific areas including climate, environment, energy, georesources and biosphere. The TOPO-EUROPE initiative of the International Lithosphere Program serves as a pan-European platform for integrated surface and deep Earth sciences, synergizing observational studies of the Earth structure...

Daniele GRECH1; 2; 3; Emanuele ASCIUTTO4; Rigers BAKIU5; Pietro BATTAGLIA4; Chaima BEN-GRIRA6; Öznur Yaz?lan ÇAMLIK7; Roberto CAPPUCCINELLI8; Leila CARMONA9; 10; Sahar CHEBAANE6; 11; 12; Fabio CROCETTA13; [Et al.]

This Collective Article presents new information about the occurrence of 23 marine taxa that belong to five Phyla: two Chlorophyta, one Annelida, six Mollusca, three Arthropoda, eleven Chordata (one Ascidiacea, one Elasmobranchii and nine Teleostei) and extending from the Western Mediterranean to the Levantine Sea. All these records were reported from nine countries from the western to the eastern...

Cooper Van Vranken1; Julie Jakoboski2; John W. Carroll1; Christopher Cusack3; Patrick Gorringe4; Naoki Hirose5; James Manning6; Michela Martinelli7; Pierluigi Penna7; Mathew Pickering3; A. Miguel Piecho-Santos8; [Et al.]

Ocean observations are the foundation of our understanding of ocean processes. Improving these observations has critical implications for our ability to sustainably derive food from the ocean, predict extreme weather events that take a toll on human life, and produce the goods and services that are needed to meet the needs of a vast and growing population. While there have been great leaps forward...

Pierluigi Penna; Filippo Domenichetti; Andrea Belardinelli; Michela Martinelli;

In the last decade, an enormous amount of georeferenced oceanographic data, co-located with catch information, have been collected through the use of commercial fishing vessels operating in the Adriatic Sea and belonging to the fleet monitored by the AdriFOOS (Adriatic Fishery and Oceanography Observing System) infrastructure. This document describes the dataset of depth (pressure) and temperature...

Mauro Marini; Federica Grilli;

first_pagesettingsOrder Article Reprints Open AccessReview The Role of Nitrogen and Phosphorus in Eutrophication of the Northern Adriatic Sea: History and Future Scenarios by Mauro Marini 1,2,*ORCID andFederica Grilli 1,*ORCID 1 Institute for Biological Resources and Marine Biotechnologies, National Research Council (IRBIM, CNR) Largo Fiera della Pesca 2, 60125 Ancona, Italy 2 Fano Marine Center, The...

Palermino, Antonio; De Felice, Andrea; Canduci, Giovanni; Biagiotti, Ilaria; Costantini, Ilaria; Centurelli, Michele; Leonori, Iole;

Post-processing data analysis has the ability to affect target strength (TS) measurement, which in turn influence the biomass estimates of acoustic surveys. In situ experiments are considered as the best method to measure species-specific acoustic reflectivity since fish are measured in their natural environment without constrains. Nevertheless, this approach poses some problems concerning the methods...

Petrizzo, Antonio; Barbanti, Andrea; Barfucci, Giulia; Bastianini, Mauro; Biagiotti, Ilaria; Bosi, Sofia; Centurelli, Michele; Chavanne, Robert; Codarin, Antonio; Costantini, Ilaria; Car, Marinela Cukrov; [Et al.]

The protection of marine habitats from human-generated underwater noise is an emerging challenge. Baseline information on sound levels, however, is poorly available, especially in the Mediterranean Sea. To bridge this knowledge gap, the SOUNDSCAPE project ran a basin-scale, cross-national, long-term underwater monitoring in the Northern Adriatic Sea. A network of nine monitoring stations, characterized...

Ancuta Nartea; Lama Ismaiel; Emanuela Frapiccini; Pasquale Massimiliano Falcone; Deborah Pacetti; Natale Giuseppe Frega; Paolo Lucci; Sabrina Colella;

Abstract: The beneficial effects of sardine consumption can be related to the presence of bioactive compounds, such as vitamin E and !3 polyunsaturated fatty acids. In any case, the levels of these compounds in sardine fillet depend on different factors mainly related to the diet and reproductive cycle phase of the fish as well as the technological treatments carried out to cook the fillets. The aim...

S. COLELLA; F. GIROLAMETTI; M. PANFILI; A. ANNIBALDI; S. ILLUMINATI; M. MARINI; A. SANTOJANNI; C. TRUZZI; E. FRAPICCINI.;

Contaminants such as polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and mercury (Hg) are known for their endocrine-disprupting potential and can affect both growth and health status of fish. In the present work, PAHs and Hg levels were investigated in the muscle tissue of males and females European hakes (Merluccius merluccius) caught from Adriatic Sea. Somatic indexes, such as gonadosomatic and hepatosomatic...

Petrosillo, Irene; Scardia, Angela Maria Scardia; Ungaro, Nicola; Specchiulli, Antonietta; Fanelli, Giovanni; Centoducati, Gerardo; De Serio, Francesca; Carlucci, Roberto; Valente, Donatella; Barbone, [Et al.]

An efficient and adaptive strategy within the EU Marine Spatial Planning Directive has to manage the existing and increasing conflicts between human uses and habitat conservation in coastal-marine areas. Among the different human activities developed along the coasts, aquaculture occupies a primary role. In this context, the aims of this research have been: (1) to propose a conceptual model suitable...

De Marco R.; Di Nardo F.; Lucchetti A.; Virgili M.; Petetta A.; Li Veli D.; Screpanti L.; Bartolucci V.; Scaradozzi D.;

Passive acoustics are widely used to monitor the presence of dolphins in the marine environment. This study aims to introduce a low-cost and homemade approach for assembling a complete underwater microphone (i.e., the hydrophone), employing cheap and easy to obtain components. The hydrophone was assembled with two piezo disks connected in a balanced configuration and encased in a plastic container...

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In the last three decades, benthic foraminiferal ecology has been intensively investigated to improve the potential application of these marine organisms as proxies of the effects of climate change and other global change phenomena. It is still challenging to define the most important factors affecting foraminiferal communities and derived faunistic parameters. In this study, we examined the abiotic-biotic...

Buonocore; F; Saraceni; P.R.; Taddei; A.R.; Miccoli; A; Porcelli; F; Borocci; S; Gerdol; M.; Bugli; F.; Sanguinetti; M.; Fausto; A.M.; Scapigliati; G.; Picchietti; S.;

The NK-lysin antimicrobial peptide, first identified in mammals, possesses both antibacterial and cytotoxic activity against cancer cell lines. Homologue peptides isolated from different fish species have been examined for their functional characteristics in the last few years. In this study, a NK-lysin transcript was identified in silico from the head kidney transcriptome of the Antarctic teleost...

Schmeisser, Sebastian; Miccoli, Andrea; von Bergen, Martin; Berggren, Elisabet; Braeuning, Albert; Busch, Wibke; Desaintes, Christian; Gourmelon, Anne; Grafstrom, Roland; Harrill, Joshua; Hartung, Thomas; [Et al.]

The predominantly animal-centric approach of chemical safety assessment has increasingly come under pressure. Society is questioning overall performance, sustainability, continued relevance for human health risk assessment and ethics of this system, demanding a change of paradigm. At the same time, the scientific toolbox used for risk assessment is continuously enriched by the development of "New Approach...

Di Nardo; F.(1); De Marco; R.(2); Lucchetti(2; 3); A.; Scaradozzi; D.(1);

Globally, interactions between fishing activities and dolphins are cause for concern due to their negative effects on both mammals and fishermen. The recording of acoustic emissions could aid in detecting the presence of dolphins in close proximity to fishing gear, elucidating their behavior, and guiding potential management measures designed to limit this harmful phenomenon. This data descriptor presents...

Rocco De Marco(1);

Simple algorithm for peaks detection in wavefiles

Antonella Penna ab; Mauro Marini cb; Christian Ferrarin d; Stefano Guicciardi c; Federica Grilli c; Elisa Baldrighi e; Fabio Ricci a b; Silvia Casabianca a b; Samuela Capellacci a b; Nadia Marinchel a; [Et al.]

This study is based on assessing fecal indicator bacteria contamination along meteorological, hydrological and physical-chemical variables after high rainy events during the summer period. The study focused on four different coastal sites in the western and eastern Adriatic coast characterized by various geomorphological and hydrological features, levels of urbanization and anthropogenic pressures,...