The paper gives an overview of some of the large, shallow, semi-enclosed coastal systems
(SECS) in Europe, These SECS are important both from the ecological and the economic …

Ecological modelling tools are applied worldwide to support the ecosystem‐based approach
of marine resources (EAM). In the last decades, numerous applications were attempted in …

The lagoon of Venice has always been affected by the regional geomorphological evolution,
anthropogenic stressors and global changes. Different morphological settings and variable …

A number of marine alien species have been described as invasive or locally invasive in the
Mediterranean because of their proliferation, and/or their geographical spread and/or impact …

Background Ecological attributes estimated from food web models have the potential to be
indicators of good environmental status given their capabilities to describe redundancy, food …

This collaborative effort by many specialists across the Mediterranean presents an updated
annotated list of alien marine species in the Mediterranean Sea. Alien species have been …

A trophic mass-balance model was developed to characterise the food web structure and
functioning of the Northern and Central Adriatic Sea and to quantify the ecosystem impacts …

Exploited ecosystems are characterised by exports of secondary production from each
fished trophic level that reduce the energy available for upper levels at the ecosystem scale …

AbstrACt Analysis of the Venice Lagoon responses to changing morphological features,
freshwater discharges, nutrient loads, fishing activities, and other factors shows that this …

The development of an ecosystem approach is essential to improve understanding of the
nature and dynamics of exploited marine ecosystems and the complexity of species …