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Della Torre C, Villa S, Chiarore A, Cannavacciuolo A, Rizzi C, Musco L, Nigro L, Munari M. Biomonitoring of human activities recovery following lockdown in a highly touristic Mediterranean Island using Mytilus galloprovincialis. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2024; 204:116533. [PMID: 38833949 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116533] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/21/2024] [Revised: 05/28/2024] [Accepted: 05/29/2024] [Indexed: 06/06/2024]
Abstract
Coastal waters face significant anthropogenic stress, particularly from tourism, exacerbating pollution, especially in areas like touristic islands. Ischia, the largest island in the Gulf of Naples and part of the Regno di Nettuno Marine Protected Area, suffers from pollution due to tourism and maritime traffic. During the initial SARS-CoV-2 lockdown from March to June 2020, Ischia was isolated, providing a unique opportunity to study pollutant release and its impact on coastal ecosystems. Adult Mytilus galloprovincialis mussels were transplanted to three sites on the island for active biomonitoring. Accumulation of chemicals in tissues and biomarkers related to metabolism, detoxification, and oxidative stress were measured. Results indicated that pollutants from daily activities entered the sea, affecting filter feeders. Translocated organisms showed modulated metabolic functions and biochemical changes, highlighting coastal vulnerability and calling for conservation efforts.
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- Camilla Della Torre
- Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Italy; Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy
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- Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences, University of Milano-Bicocca, Milan, Italy
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- Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy; Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA), University of Salento, Lecce, Italy; NBFC, National Biodiversity Future Center, Palermo, Italy
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- Department of Biosciences, University of Milan, Italy
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- Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, Naples, Italy; Department of Biology, Stazione Idrobiologica 'Umberto d'Ancona', University of Padova, Chioggia, Italy.
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Galià-Camps C, Junkin L, Borrallo X, Carreras C, Pascual M, Turon X. Navigating spatio-temporal microbiome dynamics: Environmental factors and trace elements shape the symbiont community of an invasive marine species. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2024; 203:116477. [PMID: 38759466 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116477] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 11/26/2023] [Revised: 04/30/2024] [Accepted: 05/06/2024] [Indexed: 05/19/2024]
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The proliferation of marine invasive species is a mounting concern. While the role of microbial communities in invasive ascidian species is recognized, the role of seasonal shifts in microbiome composition remains largely unexplored. We sampled five individuals of the invasive ascidian Styela plicata quarterly from January 2020 to October 2021 in two harbours, examining gills, tunics, and surrounding water. By analysing Amplicon Sequence Variants (ASVs) and seawater trace elements, we found that compartment (seawater, tunic, or gills) was the primary differentiating factor, followed by harbour. Clear seasonal patterns were evident in seawater bacteria, less so in gills, and absent in tunics. We identified compartment-specific bacteria, as well as seasonal indicator ASVs and ASVs correlated with trace element concentrations. Among these bacteria, we found that Endozoicomonas, Hepatoplasma and Rhodobacteraceae species had reported functions which might be necessary for overcoming seasonality and trace element shifts. This study contributes to understanding microbiome dynamics in invasive holobiont systems, and the patterns found indicate a potential role in adaptation and invasiveness.
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Affiliation(s)
- Carles Galià-Camps
- Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain; Department of Marine Ecology, Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), Accés Cala Sant Francesc 14, 17300 Blanes, Spain.
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- Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain.
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- Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain
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- Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain.
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- Departament de Genètica, Microbiologia i Estadística, Universitat de Barcelona, Avinguda Diagonal 643, 08028 Barcelona, Spain; Institut de Recerca de la Biodiversitat (IRBio), Universitat de Barcelona (UB), Barcelona, Spain.
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- Department of Marine Ecology, Centre d'Estudis Avançats de Blanes (CEAB-CSIC), Accés Cala Sant Francesc 14, 17300 Blanes, Spain.
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Sánchez A, Galan-Caamal RJ, Ortiz-Hernández MC, Sánchez-Sánchez J, Camacho-Cruz KA, Anguas-Cabrera D. Ammonium depletion associated with the COVID-19 pandemic in the Mexican Caribbean. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2024; 202:116347. [PMID: 38608428 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2024.116347] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 02/25/2024] [Revised: 04/03/2024] [Accepted: 04/04/2024] [Indexed: 04/14/2024]
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The Mexican Caribbean contributes significantly to Mexico's gross national product. The number of tourists declined from 16.7 million in 2019 to 8.8 million in 2020 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, with a rapid recovery of 13.5 million in 2021. Wastewater discharge is the primary contamination source associated with the tourism sector's demand for goods and services. Water quality could improve due to fewer tourists arriving during the COVID-19 sanitary emergency. This study aimed to quantify ammonium concentrations at eleven locations to evaluate water quality during the sanitary restriction due to the pandemic in the Mexican Caribbean. The ammonium concentrations were 85 % (Nov-2019), 89 % (Feb-2020), and 86 % (Feb-2021) higher than in Nov-2020, where six of the eleven sampled stations were below the detection limit (0.15 μM). Lower ammonium concentrations coincide with the sanitary restriction period and a decrease in affluent tourists.
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- A Sánchez
- Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico.
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- El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Chetumal, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico
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- El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Chetumal, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico
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- Centro Interdisciplinario de Ciencias Marinas del Instituto Politécnico Nacional, La Paz, B.C.S., Mexico; Instituto de Ciencias del Mar y Limnología, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Puerto Morelos, Quintana Roo, Mexico
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- El Colegio de la Frontera Sur, Unidad Chetumal, Chetumal, Quintana Roo, Mexico
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Brown M, Ambrosone M, Turner KJ, Humphries GE, Tzortziou M, Anglès S, Panzeca C, Greenfield DI. Phytoplankton assemblage responses to nitrogen following COVID-19 stay-in-place orders in western Long Island Sound (New York/Connecticut). MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH 2024; 196:106371. [PMID: 38309244 DOI: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106371] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/01/2023] [Revised: 12/05/2023] [Accepted: 01/17/2024] [Indexed: 02/05/2024]
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This study evaluated water quality, nitrogen (N), and phytoplankton assemblage linkages along the western Long Island Sound (USA) shoreline (Nov. 2020-Dec. 2021) following COVID-19 stay-in-place (SIP) orders through monthly surveys and N-addition bioassays. Ammonia-N (AmN; NH3+NH4+) negatively correlated with total chlorophyll-a (chl-a) at all sites; this was significant at Alley Creek, adjacent to urban wastewater inputs, and at Calf Pasture, by the Norwalk River (Spearman rank correlation, p < 0.01 and 0.02). Diatoms were abundant throughout the study, though dinoflagellates (Heterocapsa, Prorocentrum), euglenoids/cryptophytes, and both nano- and picoplankton biomass increased during summer. In field and experimental assessments, high nitrite + nitrate (N + N) and low AmN increased diatom abundances while AmN was positively linked to cryptophyte concentrations. Likely N + N decreases with presumably minimal changes in AmN and organic N during COVID-19 SIP resulted in phytoplankton assemblage shifts (decreased diatoms, increased euglenoids/cryptophytes), highlighting the ecological impacts of N-form delivered by wastewater to urban estuaries.
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- Maximillian Brown
- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY, 11367, USA; Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- Earth and Atmospheric Science, Center for Discovery and Innovation, The City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY, 11367, USA; Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- Earth and Atmospheric Science, Center for Discovery and Innovation, The City College of New York, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA
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- State University of New York Maritime College, Bronx, NY, 10465, USA
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- School of Earth and Environmental Sciences, Queens College, City University of New York, Flushing, NY, 11367, USA; Advanced Science Research Center at the Graduate Center, City University of New York, New York, NY, 10031, USA.
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Vez-Garzón M, Giménez J, Sánchez-Márquez A, Montalvo T, Navarro J. Changes in the feeding ecology of an opportunistic predator inhabiting urban environments in response to COVID-19 lockdown. ROYAL SOCIETY OPEN SCIENCE 2023; 10:221639. [PMID: 37063991 PMCID: PMC10090867 DOI: 10.1098/rsos.221639] [Citation(s) in RCA: 5] [Impact Index Per Article: 5.0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [Grants] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 12/23/2022] [Accepted: 03/22/2023] [Indexed: 06/19/2023]
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Urban-dwelling species present feeding and behavioural innovation that enable them to adjust to anthropogenic food subsidies available in cities. In 2020, the SARS-CoV-2 virus outbreak resulted in unprecedented reduction in the human activity worldwide associated with the human lockdown. This situation opened an excellent opportunity to investigate the capability of urban wildlife to cope with this anthropopause event. Here, we investigated the effects of the COVID-19 lockdown on the feeding strategies of the urban yellow-legged gull (Larus michahellis) population inhabiting the highly dense city of Barcelona (NE Spain). We compared the diet of chicks (through stomach content and stable isotope analyses) sampled randomly around the city of Barcelona before (2018 and 2019), during (2020) and after (2021) the COVID-19 lockdown. The results revealed that the anthropopause associated with the lockdown had an effect on the diet of this urban-dwelling predator. The diversity of prey consumed during the lockdown was lower, and consumption of urban birds (pigeons and parakeets) and marine prey (fishery discards and natural prey) decreased during the year of lockdown. Although it was not analysed, these diet changes probably were associated with variations in the availability of these resources due to the decrease in human activity during the lockdown. These results demonstrate the trophic flexibility of urban-dwelling species to cope with the changes in the availability of human-related anthropogenic resources in urban marine ecosystems.
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- Marc Vez-Garzón
- Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), CSIC, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), CSIC, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), CSIC, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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- Servei de Vigilància i Control de Plagues Urbanes, Agencia de Salud Pública de Barcelona, Pl. Lesseps, 1, 08023 Barcelona, Spain
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- Institut de Ciències del Mar (ICM), CSIC, Passeig Marítim de la Barceloneta 37-49, 08003 Barcelona, Spain
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Wang Q, Zhang M, Li R, Jiang XT. Does marine environmental research meet the challenges of marine pollution induced by the COVID-19 pandemic? Comparison analysis before and during the pandemic based on bibliometrics. MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2022; 183:114046. [PMID: 36057155 PMCID: PMC9376348 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2022.114046] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 05/12/2022] [Revised: 08/07/2022] [Accepted: 08/10/2022] [Indexed: 06/15/2023]
Abstract
The outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic has brought enormous challenges to the global marine environment. Various responses to the COVID-19 pandemic have led to increased marine pollution. Has the COVID-19 pandemic affected marine pollution research? This work comprehensively reviewed marine pollution publications in the Web of Science database before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Results show that the COVID-19 outbreak has influenced the marine pollution research by: (i) increasing the number of publications; (ii) reshaping different countries' roles in marine pollution research; (iii) altering the hotspots of marine pollution research. The ranking of countries with high productivity in the marine pollution research field changed, and developed economies are the dominant players both before and after the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in this field. Other high-productivity countries, with the exception of China, have higher international cooperation rates in marine pollution research than those before the pandemic. Microplastic pollution has been the biggest challenge of marine pollution and has been aexplored in greater depth during the COVID-19 pandemic. Furthermore, the mining results of marine pollution publications show the mitigation of plastic pollution in the marine environment remains the main content requires future research. Finally, this paper puts forward corresponding suggestions for the reference of researchers and practitioners to improve the global ability to respond to the challenges posed by the pandemic to the marine environment.
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- Qiang Wang
- School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, People's Republic of China; Institute of Carbon Neutrality Economics and Energy Management, School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830046, People's Republic of China; Institute for Energy Economics and Policy, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, People's Republic of China.
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- School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, People's Republic of China; Institute for Energy Economics and Policy, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, People's Republic of China
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- School of Economics and Management, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, People's Republic of China; Institute of Carbon Neutrality Economics and Energy Management, School of Economics and Management, Xinjiang University, Urumqi, Xinjiang 830046, People's Republic of China; Institute for Energy Economics and Policy, China University of Petroleum (East China), Qingdao 266580, People's Republic of China.
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- Crawford School of Public Policy, The Australian National University, Canberra, ACT 2601, Australia
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