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Dos Santos A, Marques R, Pires RF. Zooplankton biodiversity and temporal dynamics (2005-2015) in a coastal station in western Portugal (Northeastern Atlantic Ocean). PeerJ 2023; 11:e16387. [PMID: 38025690 PMCID: PMC10668806 DOI: 10.7717/peerj.16387] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Figures] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/12/2023] [Accepted: 10/10/2023] [Indexed: 12/01/2023] Open
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Long-term monitoring of zooplankton assemblages provides essential knowledge to assess key factors impacting marine ecosystems. Despite the importance of this type of data, monitoring stations worldwide are spatially and temporally limited due to the difficulty of maintaining them. In the northeastern Atlantic area, Cascais-Watch is one monitoring site operating since 2005, despite some constraints throughout the years, and has allowed the collection of important data on the zooplankton communities of the area. The present work summarizes the knowledge collected until 2015 on the biodiversity and dynamics of zooplankton in the site. The results showed a year-round high productivity of the zooplankton abundance, biomass and diversity for the area, with no significant general trends or periodicity, despite the relatively lower winter and higher spring values. The results revealed two main transition periods with marked changes in species composition and dominance of the most abundant taxa. This shift was tentatively attributed to the extended annual dry season verified in Portugal after 2011, the low values of upwelling and precipitation, and the warmer waters. The zooplankton abundance presented an interannual increase for spring periods, and the proportion of Copepoda, the dominant taxa, was lower during summer months, corresponding to increased abundances of Mollusca, Diplostraca (Cladocera) and Cnidaria. In particular, the study shows an increasing abundance of the gelatinous species (particularly Cnidaria) for spring/summer months in recent years, suggesting changes in primary production and prey dynamics. Other relevant tendencies were the higher abundance of meroplankton, such as Bivalvia and fish larvae/eggs, and the decreasing trend in the abundance of the meroplanktonic coastal crustaceans, Decapoda and Cirripedia taxa, highlighting possible changes in the benthic coastal populations in the study region. The present study highlights probable changes and trends in the zooplankton community that should be monitored in the following years.
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- Antonina Dos Santos
- IPMA, Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere, Algés, Portugal
- CIIMAR—Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, Matosinhos, Portugal
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- IPMA, Portuguese Institute for Sea and Atmosphere, Algés, Portugal
- CIIMAR—Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research, Matosinhos, Portugal
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Caill-Milly N, Garmendia JB, D'Amico F, Guyader O, Dang C, Bru N. Adapting a dynamic system model using life traits and local fishery knowledge — Application to a population of exploited marine bivalves (Ruditapes philippinarum) in a mesotidal coastal lagoon. Ecol Modell 2022. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2022.110034] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/03/2022]
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Ghezzo M, Pellizzato M, De Pascalis F, Silvestri S, Umgiesser G. Natural resources and climate change: A study of the potential impact on Manila clam in the Venice lagoon. THE SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT 2018; 645:419-430. [PMID: 30029120 DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2018.07.060] [Citation(s) in RCA: 1] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.2] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 04/17/2018] [Revised: 07/04/2018] [Accepted: 07/04/2018] [Indexed: 06/08/2023]
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A crucial aspect in climate change is to understand how an ecosystem will adapt under different environmental conditions and how it will influence the ecological resources and the connected human activities. In this study, a numerical model reproduces the growth dynamics, dispersion and settlement of clam's larvae in the Venice lagoon. On the basis of the last IPCC scenarios for the years 2050 and 2100, the model simulates the changes in larval settlement, showing how the geographical distribution and, consequently, the nursery area changes over time. Our results indicate that climate change will modify, not only the timing of the settlements (from spring-summer to winter autumn) and the spatial distribution of nursery areas (from central to southern lagoon), but also the absolute quantity of settled larvae in the lagoon. This can strongly affect aquaculture in terms of availability of seed and farming practice. Given that these changes are due to the variations in temperature and circulation, similar processes are likely to happen in other transitional environments all over the world affecting the global aquaculture resources. In this regard, the tool we developed could support local policymakers in the knowledge-based planning and sustainable management of clam aquaculture in vulnerable environments.
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- Michol Ghezzo
- Institute of Marine Science - National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR), Arsenale Castello 2737/f, 30122 Venice, Italy.
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- Institute of Marine Science - National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR), Arsenale Castello 2737/f, 30122 Venice, Italy.
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- Institute of Marine Science - National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR), Arsenale Castello 2737/f, 30122 Venice, Italy.
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- CAB International, 9, Muthaiga - Limuru Road, PO Box 633-00621, Nairobi, Kenya.
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- Institute of Marine Science - National Research Council (ISMAR-CNR), Arsenale Castello 2737/f, 30122 Venice, Italy; Marine Research Institute, University of Klaipeda, Herkaus Manto str. 84, 92294 Klaipeda, Lithuania.
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Oysters and the Ecosystem. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2017. [DOI: 10.1016/b978-0-12-803472-9.00010-8] [Citation(s) in RCA: 0] [Impact Index Per Article: 0] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register]
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Milan M, Pauletto M, Boffo L, Carrer C, Sorrentino F, Ferrari G, Pavan L, Patarnello T, Bargelloni L. Transcriptomic resources for environmental risk assessment: a case study in the Venice lagoon. ENVIRONMENTAL POLLUTION (BARKING, ESSEX : 1987) 2015; 197:90-98. [PMID: 25514060 DOI: 10.1016/j.envpol.2014.12.005] [Citation(s) in RCA: 26] [Impact Index Per Article: 2.9] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 09/11/2014] [Revised: 11/24/2014] [Accepted: 12/01/2014] [Indexed: 06/04/2023]
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The development of new resources to evaluate the environmental status is becoming increasingly important representing a key challenge for ocean and coastal management. Recently, the employment of transcriptomics in aquatic toxicology has led to increasing initiatives proposing to integrate eco-toxicogenomics in the evaluation of marine ecosystem health. However, several technical issues need to be addressed before introducing genomics as a reliable tool in regulatory ecotoxicology. The Venice lagoon constitutes an excellent case, in which the assessment of environmental risks derived from the nearby industrial activities represents a crucial task. In this context, the potential role of genomics to assist environmental monitoring was investigated through the definition of reliable gene expression markers associated to chemical contamination in Manila clams, and their subsequent employment for the classification of Venice lagoon areas. Overall, the present study addresses key issues to evaluate the future outlooks of genomics in the environmental monitoring and risk assessment.
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- M Milan
- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy.
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Azienda ULSS n. 14 Chioggia, Italy
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- Thetis S.P.A. - Magistrato alle Acque, Laboratorio Centro Studi Microinquinanti Organici (C.S.M.O.), Via Asconio Pediano, 9, 35127 Padova, Italy
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- Ufficio Tecnico per l'Antinquinamento, Magistrato alle Acque di Venezia, San Polo 737, Riva del Vin, 30125 Venezia, Italy
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- Ufficio Tecnico per l'Antinquinamento, Magistrato alle Acque di Venezia, San Polo 737, Riva del Vin, 30125 Venezia, Italy
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- G3 Industriale, Via Milano 18, 30020 Marcon, VE, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
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- Department of Comparative Biomedicine and Food Science, University of Padova, Viale dell'Università 16, 35020 Legnaro, PD, Italy
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Application of a Random Forest algorithm to predict spatial distribution of the potential yield of Ruditapes philippinarum in the Venice lagoon, Italy. Ecol Modell 2011. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2011.02.007] [Citation(s) in RCA: 152] [Impact Index Per Article: 11.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/24/2022]
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A system dynamics model for the management of the Manila clam, Ruditapes philippinarum (Adams and Reeve, 1850) in the Bay of Arcachon (France). Ecol Modell 2009. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2009.03.031] [Citation(s) in RCA: 27] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.8] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/21/2022]
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Vincenzi S, Caramori G, Rossi R, De Leo GA. A comparative analysis of three habitat suitability models for commercial yield estimation of Tapes philippinarum in a North Adriatic coastal lagoon (Sacca di Goro, Italy). MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN 2007; 55:579-590. [PMID: 17963792 DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2007.09.016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 6] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.4] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 05/25/2023]
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Habitat Suitability (HS) models have been extensively used by conservation planners to estimate the spatial distribution of threatened species and of species of commercial interest. In this work we compare three HS models for the estimation of commercial yield potential and the identification of suitable sites for Tapes philippinarum rearing in the Sacca di Goro lagoon (Italy) on the basis of six environmental factors. The habitat suitability index (HSI) is based on expert opinion while the habitat suitability conditional (HSC) is calibrated on observational data. The habitat suitability mixed (HSM) model is a two-part model combining expert knowledge and regression analysis: the first component of the model uses logistic regression to identify the areas in which clams are likely to be present; the second part applies the same parameter-specific suitability functions of the HSI model only in the areas previously identified as productive by the logistic component. The HS models were validated on an independent data set and estimates of potential yield of the Goro lagoon were compared. The effectiveness of the three approaches is then discussed in terms of predicted yield and identification of suitable sites for farming.
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- Simone Vincenzi
- Dipartimento di Scienze Ambientali, Università degli Studi di Parma, Viale G. Usberti 33A, Parma, Italy.
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Caldow RWG, Stillman RA, dit Durell SEALV, West AD, McGrorty S, Goss-Custard JD, Wood PJ, Humphreys J. Benefits to shorebirds from invasion of a non-native shellfish. Proc Biol Sci 2007; 274:1449-55. [PMID: 17412684 PMCID: PMC2176204 DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2007.0072] [Citation(s) in RCA: 29] [Impact Index Per Article: 1.7] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [Key Words] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Received: 01/17/2007] [Revised: 03/12/2007] [Accepted: 03/13/2007] [Indexed: 11/12/2022] Open
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Introductions of non-native species are seen as major threats to ecosystem function and biodiversity. However, invasions of aquatic habitats by non-native species are known to benefit generalist consumers that exhibit dietary switches and prey upon the exotic species in addition to or in preference to native ones. There is, however, little knowledge concerning the population-level implications of such dietary changes. Here, we show that the introduction of the Manila clam Tapes philippinarum into European coastal waters has presented the Eurasian oystercatcher Haematopus ostralegus ostralegus with a new food resource and resulted in a previously unknown predator-prey interaction between these species. We demonstrate, with an individuals-based simulation model, that the presence of this non-native shellfish, even at the current low density, has reduced the predicted over-winter mortality of oystercatchers at one recently invaded site. Further increases in clam population density are predicted to have even more pronounced effects on the density dependence of oystercatcher over-winter mortality. These results suggest that if the Manila clam were to spread around European coastal waters, a process which is likely to be facilitated by global warming, this could have considerable benefits for many shellfish-eating shorebird populations.
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- Richard W G Caldow
- Centre for Ecology and Hydrology, CEH Dorset, Winfrith Technology Centre, Dorchester, Dorset DT2 8ZD, UK.
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Vincenzi S, Caramori G, Rossi R, Leo GAD. A GIS-based habitat suitability model for commercial yield estimation of Tapes philippinarum in a Mediterranean coastal lagoon (Sacca di Goro, Italy). Ecol Modell 2006. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2005.07.039] [Citation(s) in RCA: 60] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 10/25/2022]
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A bio-physical coastal ecosystem model for assessing environmental effects of marine bivalve aquaculture. Ecol Modell 2005. [DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolmodel.2004.08.018] [Citation(s) in RCA: 63] [Impact Index Per Article: 3.3] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/22/2022]
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Simone B, Marchettini N, Niccolucci V, Pulselli FM. Environmental Accounting for the Lagoon of Venice and the Case of Fishing. ACTA ACUST UNITED AC 2005; 95:143-52. [PMID: 16485655 DOI: 10.1002/adic.200590016] [Citation(s) in RCA: 11] [Impact Index Per Article: 0.6] [Reference Citation Analysis] [Abstract] [MESH Headings] [Track Full Text] [Journal Information] [Subscribe] [Scholar Register] [Indexed: 11/06/2022]
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This paper presents the application of the eMergy evaluation, introduced by H.T. Odum as an efficient methodology of environmental accounting. The results of this analysis are a part of a wider sustainability assessment for the Province of Venice realized in 2003. Within a territorial sustainability analysis, it is necessary to implement an environmental accounting method, which is able: to precisely consider the boundaries of the investigated system (spatial scale); to arbitrarily separate the life of the investigated system into periods (temporal scale); to account for both economic and natural support to a given territorial system in order to implement a sustainable management of resources; to assess all the items supporting the system on the basis of a physical unit that is objective (while the traditional economic evaluation method is based on individual preferences, hence it is subjective). The Province of Venice is a very complex system due, on one hand, to the heavy and consolidated presence of industrial activity since the beginning of the 20th century and, on the other hand, to the principal natural ecosystem which characterizes it: the lagoon, the largest wetland in the Mediterranean Sea. The role of the lagoon, as a provider of resources and services is represented by the analysis of two aspects: the lagoon as an ecosystem on the basis of the evaluation of all flows that cyclically support its biotic activity and the lagoon as a productive system on the basis of the contribution of both natural and "economic" inputs that support human activity. In particular, the case of clam fishing will be presented to put on evidence the importance of natural inputs that are systematically neglected by the traditional accounting methodologies.
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- Bastianoni Simone
- Department of Chemical and Biosystems Sciences, University of Siena, Via della Diana 2A, 53100 Siena, Italy
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