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Article

A Comparative Approach to Detect Macrobenthic Response to the Conversion of an Inshore Mariculture Plant into an IMTA System in the Mar Grande of Taranto (Mediterranean Sea, Italy)

by
Jacopo Borghese
1,
Luigi Musco
1,2,*,
Daniele Arduini
1,
Laura Tamburello
3,
Michela Del Pasqua
4 and
Adriana Giangrande
1,2
1
Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies, University of Salento, 73100 Lecce, Italy
2
National Biodiversity Future Center, 90133 Palermo, Italy
3
Department of Integrative Marine Ecology, Ischia Marine Centre, Stazione Zoologica Anton Dohrn, 80077 Ischia, Italy
4
ARPAE—Regional Agency for Prevention, Environment and Energy, Emilia-Romagna, 40138 Bologna, Italy
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Water 2023, 15(1), 68; https://doi.org/10.3390/w15010068
Submission received: 25 November 2022 / Revised: 21 December 2022 / Accepted: 22 December 2022 / Published: 25 December 2022
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Implementation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Marine Ecosystem Management, Volume II)
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Abstract

The expected bioremediation effect, driven by the conversion of an inshore mariculture plant into an Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) system, which could mitigate the fish farm impact, related to the accumulation of organic matter on the seabed, has been studied. The ecological quality status was studied following a Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI) design and variation measured through M-AMBI and compared with the results of univariate and multivariate analyses of variance, to evaluate the sensitivity of the two methodologies. Results from M-AMBI indicated a sharp change in the ecological quality status, just after one year of the conversion of the plant. By contrast, although changes were detected also utilizing univariate and multivariate statistical analysis, the natural temporal variability characterizing the area partially masked evidence of environmental amelioration.
Keywords: bioremediation; M-AMBI; BACI; macrozoobenthos; fish farm bioremediation; M-AMBI; BACI; macrozoobenthos; fish farm

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Borghese, J.; Musco, L.; Arduini, D.; Tamburello, L.; Del Pasqua, M.; Giangrande, A. A Comparative Approach to Detect Macrobenthic Response to the Conversion of an Inshore Mariculture Plant into an IMTA System in the Mar Grande of Taranto (Mediterranean Sea, Italy). Water 2023, 15, 68. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15010068

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Borghese J, Musco L, Arduini D, Tamburello L, Del Pasqua M, Giangrande A. A Comparative Approach to Detect Macrobenthic Response to the Conversion of an Inshore Mariculture Plant into an IMTA System in the Mar Grande of Taranto (Mediterranean Sea, Italy). Water. 2023; 15(1):68. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15010068

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Borghese, Jacopo, Luigi Musco, Daniele Arduini, Laura Tamburello, Michela Del Pasqua, and Adriana Giangrande. 2023. "A Comparative Approach to Detect Macrobenthic Response to the Conversion of an Inshore Mariculture Plant into an IMTA System in the Mar Grande of Taranto (Mediterranean Sea, Italy)" Water 15, no. 1: 68. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15010068

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Borghese, J., Musco, L., Arduini, D., Tamburello, L., Del Pasqua, M., & Giangrande, A. (2023). A Comparative Approach to Detect Macrobenthic Response to the Conversion of an Inshore Mariculture Plant into an IMTA System in the Mar Grande of Taranto (Mediterranean Sea, Italy). Water, 15(1), 68. https://doi.org/10.3390/w15010068

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