Marine litter is one of the main sources of anthropogenic pollution in the marine ecosystem, with plastic representing a global threat. This paper aims to assess the spatial distribution of plastic macro-litter on the seafloor, identifying accumulation hotspots at a northern Mediterranean scale. Density indices (items km–2) from the MEDITS trawl surveys (years 2013-2015) were modelled by generalized additive models using a Delta-type approach and several covariates: latitude, longitude, depth, seafloor slope, surface oceanographic currents and distances from main ports. To set thresholds for the identification of accumulation areas, the percentiles (85th, 90th and 95th) of the plastic spatial density distribution were computed on the raster...
The Mediterranean Sea shows a trend of increasing temperature and decreasing productivity from the w...
In this thesis I investigated the status of the Mediterranean Sea ecosystem and the sustainability o...
Il Mar Mediterraneo è il più grande bacino semichiuso della Terra; è collegato all'Oceano Atlantico ...
Trawling pressure and environmental changes may affect the composition of fish assemblages. Our know...
The present study provides updated information on the occurrence, abundance and biomass distribution...
Thanks to the availability of the MEDITS survey data, a standardized picture of the occurrence and a...
The uncertainty in age estimation by otolith reading may be at the root of the large variability in ...
Most studies on European hake focus on the recruitment process and nursery areas, whereas the inform...
The large-scale distribution pattern of megafauna communities along the Mediterranean middle slope w...
The Mediterranean distributions of two species of anglerfish, the blackbellied anglerfish (Lophius b...
The state of marine systems subject to natural or anthropogenic impacts can be generally summarized ...
The high species richness, coupled with high proportion of endemism, makes the Mediterranean one of ...
The MEDITS programme started in 1994 in the Mediterranean with the cooperation among research instit...
[eng] In this thesis I investigated the status of the Mediterranean Sea ecosystem and the sustainabi...
Este artículo contiene 18 páginas, 4 figuras.Good datasets of geo-referenced records of alien specie...
The Mediterranean Sea shows a trend of increasing temperature and decreasing productivity from the w...
In this thesis I investigated the status of the Mediterranean Sea ecosystem and the sustainability o...
Il Mar Mediterraneo è il più grande bacino semichiuso della Terra; è collegato all'Oceano Atlantico ...
Trawling pressure and environmental changes may affect the composition of fish assemblages. Our know...
The present study provides updated information on the occurrence, abundance and biomass distribution...
Thanks to the availability of the MEDITS survey data, a standardized picture of the occurrence and a...
The uncertainty in age estimation by otolith reading may be at the root of the large variability in ...
Most studies on European hake focus on the recruitment process and nursery areas, whereas the inform...
The large-scale distribution pattern of megafauna communities along the Mediterranean middle slope w...
The Mediterranean distributions of two species of anglerfish, the blackbellied anglerfish (Lophius b...
The state of marine systems subject to natural or anthropogenic impacts can be generally summarized ...
The high species richness, coupled with high proportion of endemism, makes the Mediterranean one of ...
The MEDITS programme started in 1994 in the Mediterranean with the cooperation among research instit...
[eng] In this thesis I investigated the status of the Mediterranean Sea ecosystem and the sustainabi...
Este artículo contiene 18 páginas, 4 figuras.Good datasets of geo-referenced records of alien specie...
The Mediterranean Sea shows a trend of increasing temperature and decreasing productivity from the w...
In this thesis I investigated the status of the Mediterranean Sea ecosystem and the sustainability o...
Il Mar Mediterraneo è il più grande bacino semichiuso della Terra; è collegato all'Oceano Atlantico ...