Sedimentation Rates: Anthropogenic Impacts and Environmental Changes in Transitional Water Systems
Abstract
:1. Introduction
2. Materials and Methods
2.1. Study Areas
2.1.1. Venice Lagoon
2.1.2. Goro Lagoon
2.2. Sedimentation Traps
2.3. SPM Monitoring
3. Results
3.1. Venice Lagoon
3.2. Sacca di Goro
4. Discussion
5. Conclusions
Supplementary Materials
Author Contributions
Funding
Institutional Review Board Statement
Informed Consent Statement
Data Availability Statement
Acknowledgments
Conflicts of Interest
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2019 | 2020–2021 | ||||||||||||
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SPM | Fines | Porg | Ptot | Ntot | Corg | SPM | Fines | Porg | Ptot | Ntot | Corg | ||
SPM | 1.00 | SPM | 1.00 | ||||||||||
Fines | −0.49 | 1.00 | Fines | −0.34 | 1.00 | ||||||||
Porg | −0.86 | 0.85 | 1.00 | Porg | −0.70 | 0.83 | 1.00 | ||||||
Ptot | −0.62 | 0.95 | 0.92 | 1.00 | Ptot | −0.44 | 0.86 | 0.93 | 1.00 | ||||
Ntot | −0.98 | 0.56 | 0.88 | 0.66 | 1.00 | Ntot | −0.87 | 0.67 | 0.88 | 0.72 | 1.00 | ||
Corg | −0.98 | 0.35 | 0.77 | 0.48 | 0.95 | 1.00 | Corg | −0.89 | 0.65 | 0.87 | 0.66 | 0.97 | 1.00 |
Three Stations (1989–1990/1998–1999) | ||||
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SPM | Fines | Ptot | Ntot | |
SPM | 1 | |||
Fines | −0.88 | 1 | ||
Ptot | −0.39 | 0.34 | 1 | |
Ntot | −0.68 | 0.52 | 0.91 | 1 |
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Sfriso, A.; Buosi, A.; Juhmani, A.-S.; Tomio, Y.; Mistri, M.; Munari, C.; Sfriso, A.A. Sedimentation Rates: Anthropogenic Impacts and Environmental Changes in Transitional Water Systems. Water 2022, 14, 3843. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14233843
Sfriso A, Buosi A, Juhmani A-S, Tomio Y, Mistri M, Munari C, Sfriso AA. Sedimentation Rates: Anthropogenic Impacts and Environmental Changes in Transitional Water Systems. Water. 2022; 14(23):3843. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14233843
Chicago/Turabian StyleSfriso, Adriano, Alessandro Buosi, Abdul-Salam Juhmani, Yari Tomio, Michele Mistri, Cristina Munari, and Andrea Augusto Sfriso. 2022. "Sedimentation Rates: Anthropogenic Impacts and Environmental Changes in Transitional Water Systems" Water 14, no. 23: 3843. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14233843
APA StyleSfriso, A., Buosi, A., Juhmani, A. -S., Tomio, Y., Mistri, M., Munari, C., & Sfriso, A. A. (2022). Sedimentation Rates: Anthropogenic Impacts and Environmental Changes in Transitional Water Systems. Water, 14(23), 3843. https://doi.org/10.3390/w14233843