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Benthic Colonization on New Materials for Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Porto Cesareo, Italy
by Carolina Bracho-Villavicencio, Helena Matthews-Cascon, Marc García-Durán, Xavier Vélez, Nicola Lago, Laura Busquier and Sergio Rossi
J. Mar. Sci. Eng. 2024, 12(1), 169; https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse12010169 - 16 Jan 2024
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Suitable colonization materials are a pursued target in marine restoration programs. Known for making nutrients available while reducing pollutants and the risk of pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems, Biochar and Bioferment materials of organic origin were tested during a two-year experiment. We tested the [...] Read more.
Suitable colonization materials are a pursued target in marine restoration programs. Known for making nutrients available while reducing pollutants and the risk of pathogens in terrestrial ecosystems, Biochar and Bioferment materials of organic origin were tested during a two-year experiment. We tested the efficacy of these materials for restoration purposes through experimental concrete tiles treated with Biochar (B) and Bioferment (F) and tiles made of concrete, which were used as controls (Ct) for the colonization of marine organisms in the marine protected area of Porto Cesareo, Southern Italy (20 m depth). Tiles were monitored for photographs from October 2019 to September 2021. Initially, Biochar treatment presented a higher percentage of total benthic cover (81.23 ± 2.76, median ± SE), differing from Bioferment treatment and control tiles (45.65 ± 5.43 and 47.95 ± 3.69, respectively). Significant interaction between treatments and times suggests changes in community structure related to Polychaeta cover increase in Bioferment and control materials from the second monitoring time. Furthermore, the underwater instability of Bioferment on the tiles could explain the similarity with control tiles in marine organisms’ covers. Hence, Biochar is shown to be a material with optimal stability in seawater, demonstrating greater capacity for marine organisms’ colonization in less time compared to the other two materials. Full article
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Assessing the Benefit Produced by Marine Protected Areas: The Case of Porto Cesareo Marine Protected Area (Italy)
by Francesca Visintin, Elisa Tomasinsig, Maurizio Spoto, Francesco Marangon, Paolo D’Ambrosio, Luciana Muscogiuri, Sergio Fai and Stefania Troiano
Sustainability 2022, 14(17), 10698; https://doi.org/10.3390/su141710698 - 28 Aug 2022
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The article focuses on the integrated environmental accounting model called ‘eValue’, developed for protected areas and applied in the research programme coordinated by the Italian Ministry of the Environment and aimed at implementing an environmental accounting system for Italian Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). [...] Read more.
The article focuses on the integrated environmental accounting model called ‘eValue’, developed for protected areas and applied in the research programme coordinated by the Italian Ministry of the Environment and aimed at implementing an environmental accounting system for Italian Marine Protected Areas (MPAs). eValue adopts a cost-benefit analysis approach. Financial accounting based on costs and revenues is integrated with environmental accounting, which reflects environmental costs and environmental revenues, i.e., environmental benefits. The environ-mental costs assess the impacts related to human activities in the MPA expressed by calculating the carbon footprint and the environmental benefits of the marine ecosystem services calculated by applying monetary valuation techniques. The values thus estimated flow into the annual flow account, where the value produced (or consumed) by the MPA is estimated by difference. The eValue model was applied to the Porto Cesareo MPA (Italy). eValue showed that the annual benefit-cost ratio reaches a value of 3.4. Furthermore, the ratio of net benefit to public funding is 3.7, completely covering the number of public transfers and thus summarizing the MPA overall value for money. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Biodiversity 2021: Agriculture, Environment and Wellbeing)
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Microplastics’ Occurrence in Edible Fish Species (Mullus barbatus and M. surmuletus) from an Italian Marine Protected Area
by Serena Felline, Manuela Piccardo, Giuseppe Egidio De Benedetto, Cosimino Malitesta and Antonio Terlizzi
Microplastics 2022, 1(2), 291-302; https://doi.org/10.3390/microplastics1020021 - 18 May 2022
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This study reports on the presence of microplastics in the gastrointestinal tracts and livers of demersal fish (the mullet, Mullus spp.) from a Marine Protected Area (Porto Cesareo) along the Ionian Sea coast (Apulia, Southern Italy). The results showed microplastic ingestion in more [...] Read more.
This study reports on the presence of microplastics in the gastrointestinal tracts and livers of demersal fish (the mullet, Mullus spp.) from a Marine Protected Area (Porto Cesareo) along the Ionian Sea coast (Apulia, Southern Italy). The results showed microplastic ingestion in more than 60% of specimens analyzed with an average of three items per fish and average levels in red mullets being almost twice as high as the average in the congeneric striped red mullets. The dominant polymers identified by Attenuated Total ReflectanceFourier Transform Infrared spectroscopy (ATR-FTIR) and Prolysis Gas Chromatography/Mass Spectrometry (Py-GCMS) analysis were polyethylene and polystyrene. Results can be used to set baseline levels for the assessment of microplastic pollution useful for the implementation of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD) descriptor 10 in the Italian coast of Ionian Sea. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Microplastics in Marine Environment)
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