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Implementation of Biodiversity and Ecosystem Services in Marine Ecosystem Management, 3rd Edition

A special issue of Water (ISSN 2073-4441). This special issue belongs to the section "Biodiversity and Functionality of Aquatic Ecosystems".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: 25 November 2024 | Viewed by 1543

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Prof. Dr. Genuario Belmonte

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Laboratory of Zoogeography and Fauna, DiSTeBA (Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies), University of Salento, Campus Ecotekne, 73100 Lecce, Italy
Interests: plankton ecology; resurrection ecology; neuston; hyperbenthos; Copepoda Calanoida (freshwater and marine); zoogeography; submarine caves; aquariums and museums
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Dear Colleagues,

The Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MA) in the early 2000s grouped ecosystem services into four categories: provisioning; regulating; supporting; and cultural. According to the MA project, biodiversity is a necessary underlying component of ecological goods and services. Biodiversity, sometimes referred to as an ecological good/service, undoubtedly also supports ecological goods and services. At a local and national scale, however, relatively limited information still exists on the status of many ecosystem services, with the lowest level of information coming from marine ecosystems.

New methodological approaches are necessary to fill in the existing knowledge gap between land and marine ecosystems. The perspective and/or the maintenance of human wellbeing necessarily asks for a bigger contribution (in terms of direct resources and indirect services) of the marine environment, which represents 71% of the Earth surface.

This Special Issue aims to showcase classical and innovative studies of the submarine world (e.g., the mesophotic–aphotic or the open sea), mostly parts from which new information (in terms of carbon sequestration, tourist attraction, fishery management, and new food sources) and biological products can be taken, other than the consciousness of where the most urban litter goes.

Prof. Dr. Genuario Belmonte
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Keywords

  • ecosystem services
  • marine biodiversity
  • marine environment management
  • mesophotic environment
  • carbon sink
  • fishery and marine food
  • new marine based tourism
  • climate history
  • marine litter

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Influence of Temperature on the Toxic Effects of Carbamazepine on the Copepod Tigriopus fulvus: A Transgenerational Full Life Cycle Study
by Isabella Parlapiano, Ermelinda Prato, Giuseppe Denti and Francesca Biandolino
Water 2024, 16(14), 2051; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16142051 - 19 Jul 2024
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Coastal areas are increasingly exposed to global warming and emerging contaminants from anthropogenic activities; however, the interactive effects of these stress factors in shaping the offspring’s vulnerability to them are poorly understood. The present study aimed to assess the influence of temperature on [...] Read more.
Coastal areas are increasingly exposed to global warming and emerging contaminants from anthropogenic activities; however, the interactive effects of these stress factors in shaping the offspring’s vulnerability to them are poorly understood. The present study aimed to assess the influence of temperature on the toxicity of the pharmaceutical carbamazepine (CBZ) in the parental (F0) and in the first (F1) generation of Tigriopus fulvus, through a full life cycle study, measuring several biological parameters. At control temperature (20 °C), exposure to CBZ significantly inhibited larval development, especially in the F1 generation. In contrast, under warmer conditions (27 °C), even after exposure to CBZ, the development was stimulated, proving that temperature was the main factor influencing it. As regards the other investigated life traits (body length, sex ratio, and fecundity), both temperature and generation modulated toxic effects of CBZ, which is evidenced by the onset of higher alterations in F1 co-exposed copepods. Our findings suggest that temperature and contaminants could increase the long-term vulnerability to stressors of T. fulvus, potentially affecting the population structure over multiple generations of exposure. Full article
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Unraveling the Sea Slug Fauna from an Extremely Variable Environment, The ‘Passetto’ Rocky Tide Pools (North Adriatic Sea)
by Yann Toso, Francesco Martini, Agnese Riccardi and Giulia Furfaro
Water 2024, 16(12), 1687; https://doi.org/10.3390/w16121687 - 13 Jun 2024
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The Mediterranean Sea is known to be a hot spot for marine biodiversity, especially if considering the highly specialized Heterobranchia mollusks. In recent years, there has been increasing effort to fill some knowledge gaps existing on Mediterranean heterobranch diversity, but, to date, several [...] Read more.
The Mediterranean Sea is known to be a hot spot for marine biodiversity, especially if considering the highly specialized Heterobranchia mollusks. In recent years, there has been increasing effort to fill some knowledge gaps existing on Mediterranean heterobranch diversity, but, to date, several potentially interesting habitats remain unexplored. In fact, most studies have been focused on sea slugs inhabiting coastal areas and lakes, but those living in extremely variable areas like Mediterranean rocky tide pools remain almost completely ignored even if it is reported worldwide that they can host a high sea slug diversity. In this context, the rocky tide pool system near the ‘Passetto’ urban beach (Ancona, Italy) in the North Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea) represents a biodiversity hot spot, highlighting the importance of the conservation of this peculiar habitat. A preliminary quantitative survey on the associated Heterobranchia unveiled a thriving community residing in this limited and fragile habitat, and it inspired a more detailed investigation as performed in the present study. In order to reveal the presence of species that have gone unnoticed, an in-depth study was carried out between 2018 and 2022, which aimed to amplify the knowledge on this vulnerable environment and the fauna associated with this as yet poorly known habitat. Tide pooling activities corroborated by photographic analyses allowed the recording of 45 taxa in total and the addition of 25 species to the previously known list. Within those, (i) two species were potentially new to science, (ii) one was recorded in the Mediterranean Sea for the first time, (iii) two species were added to the Italian fauna, and (iv) one species constituted a new record for Sector 9 of the Italian Seas. Full article
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