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Dariush Ashtab, Mehdi Gholamalifard, Parviz Jokar, Andrey G. Kostianoy and Aleksander V. Semenov
Protected areas are referred to around the world as the basis of conservation strategies. Designation of marine protected areas (MPAs) is to preserve marine biodiversity and protect species, habitats in the seas, and oceans. The simulated annealing algor...
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Evgeny Abakumov
Rendzinas in the taiga zone are intrazonal soils; moreover, all of their processes occur in ways that are different from podzolic soil formation, which is typical for the zonal taiga boreal ecosystem. At the same time, the habitats of carbonate soils are...
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Anna Cieplok, Mariola Krodkiewska, Izabella Franiel, Rafal Starzak, Martina Sowa and Aneta Spyra
In Natural Landscape Complexes and Ecological Sites, local environmental protection is used to cover previous industrial activities, fragments of the cultural landscape, and habitats of both vertebrates and invertebrates. In water bodies within the diffe...
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Markos Digenis, Christos Arvanitidis, Thanos Dailianis and Vasilis Gerovasileiou
Although more than 600 marine caves have been recorded so far along the Greek coasts of the Aegean Sea (Eastern Mediterranean), only a few have been systematically studied for their biodiversity. In this study, the benthic communities of six marine caves...
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Cristina Gioia Di Camillo, Giorgia Luzi, Afghan Danial, Luciano Di Florio, Barbara Calcinai, Sabrina Lo Brutto, Jéssica Luana Santana Mendonça de Oliveira, Agnese Fumanti and Carlo Cerrano
The macrofauna in the intertidal zone of sandy beaches provides the trophic connectivity between land and sea, by linking microbiome, meiofauna, and megafauna, representing a food source for several terrestrial animals, including shorebirds and mammals. ...
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Guadalupe Gimenez, Giuseppe Corriero, Sajmir Beqiraj, Lorela Lazaj, Tamara Lazic, Caterina Longo, Maria Mercurio, Carlotta Nonnis Marzano, Massimo Zuccaro, Violeta Zuna and Cataldo Pierri
Coralligenous bioconstructions are one of the Mediterranean?s most distinctive and biodiverse marine habitats. This research aimed to provide a preliminary characterization of macrobenthic coralligenous assemblages at four sites located in the Marine Nat...
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Dionysios N. Apostolopoulos, Pavlos Avramidis and Konstantinos G. Nikolakopoulos
The Prokopos Lagoon is part of the Kotychi Strofilias National Wetlands Park, which is supervised by the Ministry of Environment, Energy and Climate Change of Greece. The lagoon is situated at the northwestern coast of the Peloponnese and is protected by...
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Ana Filipa Silva, Bárbara Horta e Costa, José Lino Costa, Esmeralda Pereira, João Pedro Marques, João J. Castro, Pedro G. Lino, Ana Candeias-Mendes, Pedro Pousão-Ferreira, Inês Sousa, Luís Bentes, Jorge M. S. Gonçalves, Pedro Raposo de Almeida and Bernardo Ruivo Quintella
No-take areas are key instruments to promote the effectiveness of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), particularly concerning the protection of endangered species such as the dusky grouper (Epinephelus marginatus). However, despite the establishment of no-tak...
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Sophia Mitkidou, Nikolaos Kokkinos, Elissavet Emmanouilidou, Yusuf Yohannah, Thomas Spanos, Christina Chatzichristou and Antoaneta Ene
The oil and gas industry is definitely considered the main contributor in the energy sector, acting as the lifeblood of our planet. However, environmental contamination by crude oil and petroleum products due to anthropogenic activities is of great conce...
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Rajashekhar Niyogi, Mriganka Shekhar Sarkar, Poushali Hazra, Masidur Rahman, Subham Banerjee and Robert John
Conserving landscape connections among favorable habitats is a widely used strategy to maintain populations in an increasingly fragmented world. A species can then exist as a metapopulation consisting of several subpopulations connected by dispersal. Our...
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