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Luigia Donnarumma

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Mediterranean bioconstructions along the Italian coast

2018

Marine bioconstructions are biodiversity-rich, three-dimensional biogenic structures, regulating key ecological functions of benthic ecosystems worldwide. Tropical coral reefs are outstanding for their beauty, diversity and complexity, but analogous types of bioconstructions are also present in temperate seas. The main bioconstructions in the Mediterranean Sea are represented by coralligenous formations, vermetid reefs, deep-sea cold-water corals, Lithophyllum byssoides trottoirs, coral banks formed by the shallow-water corals Cladocora caespitosa or Astroides calycularis, and sabellariid or serpulid worm reefs. Bioconstructions change the morphological and chemicophysical features of prima…

Conservation of Natural ResourcesAnthropogenic pressures; Biodiversity; Ecosystem engineers; Habitat formers; Animals; Conservation of Natural Resources; Italy; Mediterranean Sea; Biodiversity; Coral Reefs; Environmental Monitoring; Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics; Aquatic ScienceLithophyllum byssoides trottoirEvolutioncoral banksAnthropogenic pressuresAquatic SciencebioconstructionAnthropogenic pressures; Biodiversity; Ecosystem engineers; Habitat formers; Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics; Aquatic ScienceHabitat formerssabellariidcoralligenous formationsCORAL CLADOCORA-CAESPITOSA; MACROALGAL CORALLIGENOUS ASSEMBLAGES; SABELLARIA-ALVEOLATA LINNAEUS; NORTHERN ADRIATIC SEA; BETA-DIVERSITY; ASTROIDES-CALYCULARIS; OCEAN ACIDIFICATION; SPATIAL VARIATION; MASS-MORTALITY; HABITAT CHARACTERIZATIONbioconstructionsBehavior and SystematicsAnthropogenic pressureMediterranean SeaAnimalscoralligenous formationcoral bankConservation of Natural Resourcebioconstructions; coralligenous formations; vermetid reefs; deep-sea cold-water coral; Lithophyllum byssoides trottoirs; coral banks; sabellariid; serpulid worm reefsLithophyllum byssoides trottoirsEcologydeep-sea cold-water coralAnimalCoral Reefsserpulid worm reefsBiodiversityvermetid reefsEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicItalyEcosystem engineerEcosystem engineersHabitat formerCoral Reefvermetid reefEnvironmental Monitoring
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Unmanned aerial vehicle technology to assess the state of threatened biogenic formations: The vermetid reefs of mediterranean intertidal rocky coasts

2021

Abstract Vermetid bioconstructions are biogenic formations, built by sessile gastropod molluscs belonging to the family Vermetidae worldwide distributed, occurring in the intertidal and upper subtidal in the rocky shores. In the Mediterranean basin, they occur in complex and tridimensional structures that enhance the local biodiversity, allowing to qualify the structuring species as ecosystem engineers. Due to their ecological relevance and considerable extension along the coasts, we assessed their structural complexity using unmanned aerial vehicle (UAV) technology, as tool of littoral cartography analysis of these bioconstructions, and plaster hemispheres dissolution as a descriptor index…

Settore BIO/07 - EcologiageographyRPASgeography.geographical_feature_categoryDendropoma cristatum Hydrodynamic regime Mediterranean sea Remote sensing RPAS UAV Vermetid molluscsUAVVermetid molluscsIntertidal zoneAquatic ScienceRemote sensingDendropoma cristatumOceanographyEcosystem engineerStructural complexityHydrodynamic regimeRocky shoreOceanographyMediterranean seaMediterranean seaSpatial ecologyLittoral zoneRemote sensing RPAS UAV Vermetid molluscs Dendropoma cristatum Hydrodynamic regime Mediterranean seaReefGeology
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Mediterranean Bioconstructions Along the Italian Coast

2018

Marine bioconstructions are biodiversity-rich, three-dimensional biogenic structures, regulating key ecological functions of benthic ecosystems worldwide. Tropical coral reefs are outstanding for their beauty, diversity and complexity, but analogous types of bioconstructions are also present in temperate seas. The main bioconstructions in the Mediterranean Sea are represented by coralligenous formations, vermetid reefs, deep-sea cold-water corals, Lithophyllum byssoides trottoirs, coral banks formed by the shallow-water corals Cladocora caespitosa or Astroides calycularis, and sabellariid or serpulid worm reefs. Bioconstructions change the morphological and chemicophysical features of prima…

0106 biological sciencesgeographyAstroides calycularisgeography.geographical_feature_categoryfood.ingredientEcology010604 marine biology & hydrobiologyBiodiversityCoral reef15. Life on land010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesEcosystem engineerMediterranean seafood13. Climate actionBenthic zoneEcosystem14. Life underwaterReef
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