Corrado Battisti

TL;DR: The results showed that the most frequent litter items were plastic and polystyrene, and marine litter did not impact fixed dune habitats, these possibly acting as a natural barrier protecting the inner part of the coast from marine litter dispersion.

TL;DR: Limiting trampling appears to have produced positive changes in the dune vegetation assemblage after a period of only two years, encouraging for the management of coastal dune systems and highlighting how a simple and cost-effective management strategy, based on passive recovery conservation measures (i.e., fence building), can be a quick and effective method for improving and safeguard the diversity of dune plant communities.

TL;DR: The use of consolidated standardized litter nomenclature and characterization and the adoption of a logical causal chain helping researchers in defining suitable frameworks are suggested.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the impact of three main potential land sources on litter occurrence: urban areas, rivers and beach users, and found that urban areas are the main drivers for the occurrence of marine litter along central Italy's coastal ecosystems, suggesting that the presence of such litter on Lazio beaches could be effectively reduced by identifying failings in recycling and waste collection procedures and by improving waste processing systems and sewage treatment in urban areas.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors evaluated the independent effects of habitat loss (the decrease in total amount of habitat), habitat fragmentation per se (habitat subdivision) and structural connectivity (in the form of hedgerow networks) on the distribution of seven resident forest-dependent birds in central Italy.