Knowledge gaps and challenges for conservation of Mediterranean wetlands: Evidence from a comprehensive inventory and literature analysis for Sardinia

M Fois, A Cuena‐Lombraña… - … : Marine and Freshwater …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Wetlands are some of the most important ecosystems on Earth. They play a key role in
mitigating climate change‐related events and filtering polluted water, and provide habitats …

Where we come from and where to go: six decades of botanical studies in the Mediterranean wetlands, with Sardinia (Italy) as a case study

A Cuena-Lombraña, M Fois, A Cogoni, G Bacchetta - Wetlands, 2021 - Springer
Plants are key elements of wetlands due to their evolutionary strategies for co** with life in
a water-saturated environment, providing the basis for supporting nearly all wetland biota …

Plankton dynamics across the freshwater, transitional and marine research sites of the LTER-Italy Network. Patterns, fluctuations, drivers

G Morabito, MG Mazzocchi, N Salmaso… - Science of the Total …, 2018 - Elsevier
A first synoptic and trans-domain overview of plankton dynamics was conducted across the
aquatic sites belonging to the Italian Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTER-Italy) …

Effects of trophic status on microcystin production and the dominance of cyanobacteria in the phytoplankton assemblage of Mediterranean reservoirs

MA Mariani, BM Padedda, J Kaštovský, P Buscarinu… - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
The aim of our study was to evaluate the abundance of cyanobacteria and microcystins in
four Sardinian reservoirs (Italy) characterised by different trophic status to define a reference …

Long-term ecological studies on phytoplankton in Mediterranean reservoirs: a case study from Sardinia (Italy)

M Antonietta Mariani, G Grazia Lai… - Inland Waters, 2015 - Taylor & Francis
Artificial lakes are strategic water resources in the Mediterranean region but are one of the
most vulnerable areas to the impacts of climate change, particularly to the expected …

Phytoplankton cell geometric shapes along Mediterranean seasonal environmental variability in natural and artificial lakes

S Pulina, E Stanca, A Luglié, CT Satta… - Journal of Plankton …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
In this work, we grouped phytoplankton species according to their cell geometric shape for
the first time in lake ecosystems. Field multiannual data were analyzed in order to …

Water quality assessment of Aswan high dam reservoir

M Elshemy, G Meon - The Nile River, 2017 - Springer
Egypt is highly dependent on the River Nile as the main source of freshwater. The Aswan
High Dam (AHD) was constructed to control the River Nile. AHD reservoir was formed due to …

[PDF][PDF] Multiannual decrement of nutrient concentrations and phytoplankton cell size in a Mediterranean reservoir

S Pulina, A Lugliè, MA Mariani… - Nature …, 2019 - natureconservation.pensoft.net
Reservoirs are primary water resources for many uses in the Mediterreanean region and
need dedicated studies for understanding the complexity of their dynamics particularly …

The role of river inputs on the hypolimnetic chemistry of a productive reservoir: implications for management of anoxia and total phosphorus internal loading

R Marcé, E Moreno-Ostos… - Lake and Reservoir …, 2008 - Taylor & Francis
The effect of DOC and nitrate river inputs on summer hypolimnetic oxygen and nutrient
dynamics in the advective-dominated, canyon-shaped Sau Reservoir (Spain) was …

Benthic diatoms as indicators of biological quality and physical disturbance in Mediterranean watercourses: a case study of the Rio Mannu di Porto Torres basin …

GG Lai, BM Padedda, T Virdis, N Sechi… - Diatom Research, 2014 - Taylor & Francis
This study focused on expanding existing knowledge about benthic diatoms and their use as
indicators of biological quality and physical disturbance in six Mediterranean watercourses …