PIAZZI , L.

Marine coastal ecosystems are affected by a vast array of human-induced disturbances and stresses, which are often capable of overwhelming the effects of natural changes. Despite the conceptual and practical difficulty in differentiating between disturbance and stress, which are often used interchangeably, the two terms bear different...

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The study showed the differences in the structure and the spatial variability of coralligenous assemblages among sites under different human pressure. In high urbanized condition, the abundance of sensitive taxa and the spatial heterogeneity of assemblages are comparatively lower. ESCA and COARSE indices showed differences in the ecological...

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In the Mediterranean Sea, Cystoseira species are the most important canopy-forming algae in shallow rocky bottoms, hosting high biodiverse sessile and mobile communities. A large-scale study has been carried out to investigate the structure of the Cystoseira-dominated assemblages at different spatial scales and to test the hypotheses that alpha...