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Since 2014, 27 Italian Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are involved in a national programme devoted to the development and adoption of an environmental accounting system. The main goal of such a system is the calculation of the ecological and economic value of the MPAs natural capital and of the ecosystem functions and services generated....

This research is part of the LTER (Long-Term Ecological Research) project, a network of terrestrial, freshwater, transitional water and marine sites, on which ecological research is conducted on a multi-decade scale. LTER studies ecosystems, their dynamics and evolution, the relationships between biodiversity and ecological functionality, water...

Organic matter consumption and decomposition were studied in four experimental systems, having collected different organic substrates in the Ross Sea in December 1994. For the experimental approach selected, processes normally acting on a mixed pool of substances could be separated and the main features of each phenomenon could be focused on....

The coastal marine area hosts among the most productive ecosystems in the world, in terms of biomass and species richness. These ecosystems' natural capital stocks provide essential flows of resources for the environ-ment and human life. The distribution of natural capital (NC) and environmental flows (ENFL) characterizing the coastal marine...

A growing interest in the quantification of the economic value of ecosystems arose in the last decades aiming at raising awareness of the general public towards the preservation of biodiversity and supporting policy-makers in the process of creating new legal instruments. In the Mediterranean Sea, the canopy-forming macroalgae of the genus...

La gestione della fascia costiera è un processo complesso che cerca di integrare lo sfruttamento dell'area con il mantenimento di una buona qualità ambientale. Trattandosi di un problema spaziale complesso può essere ben affrontato mediante strumenti GIS. Questo lavoro presenta un approccio applicato all'itticoltura offshore, sviluppando una...

Recreational boating is a significant nature-based activity, which is especially popular in the Mediterranean region. This study analyses this activity in the last decade in the Portofino MPA, a popular recreational boating area in the Ligurian Region (northwest of the Italian peninsula) in order to evaluate the maximum turnout and to provide...

Tourism and cruise tourism in 3 municipalities along the ligurian coast were studied through emergy analysis. Two municipalities are inside the Portofino MPA. The environmental costs and the economic benefits of tourism activities were assessed in the local territory. Moreover the load imposed to the environment by cruise ship tourism was...

There is a strong scientific consensus that coastal marine ecosystems, and in particular the midlittoral zone, at the interface between terrestrial and marine realms, are seriously threatened by anthropogenic impacts, along with the goods and services they provide. Along Mediterranean shallow rocky reefs, brown macroalgae belonging to the...

The Italian Long Term Ecological Research Network (LTER-Italy) is a network of terrestrial, freshwater, transitional and marine waters, on which many-year ecological research is conducted. There are 25 sites (by 2015), distributed throughout the country, managed by the major research institutes, universities and institutions dealing with...

Recreational boating is an important economic activity that can also represent a powerful source of interference for biological communities. The monitoring of the recreational boating in all Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) within the Liguria region was conducted in the 2010 summer season and it allowed to obtain information not provided by any...

This study focuses on the potential explanations for a Phaeocystis antarctica summer bloom occurred in stratified waters of Terra Nova Bay (TNB) - which is part of the Antarctic Special Protected Area (n.161) in the Ross Sea - trough a multi-parameter correlative approach. Many previous studies have highlighted that water column stratification...

Recreational and professional fishing are spread all over the world, generating revenues and opportunities but impacting on limited fish stocks. even if stocks can recover, over-exploitation and permanent damages to ecosystems must be avoided. The aim of this work is to provide a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) to develop sustainable...

In recent decades, increasing attention has been paid to the protection of marine-coastal environment and ecosystem services. An Environmental Spatial Decision Support System (ESDSS) was developed for the management of marine-coastal areas' ecosystem services. This allows to quantify the physical and monetary value of natural capital stocks and...

Fishing is a worldwide activity impacting on limited stocks, that can recover, but it's necessary to avoid over-exploitation and permanent damages to ecosystems. The aim of this work is to provide a Spatial Decision Support System (SDSS) for develop sustainable management strategies for fishing in marine protected areas (MPAs). The system,...

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