Francesca Ape

TL;DR: TTHQ values suggested that the local population could experience adverse health effects due to consumption of local seafood, mainly of demersal and benthic species, and the NMDS model highlighted species specific bioaccumulation processes and specific sensitivity of species to different bioavailable heavy metals.

TL;DR: The results indicate that bioremediation is a promising tool to mitigate the aquaculture impact in fish farm sediments, and that further research needs to be oriented to identifying more successful interventions able to specifically target also fish-faeces related microbes.

TL;DR: The role of 2 non-indigenous serpulid tube worms in shaping the hard substrata communities around a fish farm in the Strait of Sicily over 1 yr is investigated to add new insights into the role of aquaculture as a vector and pathway for NIS.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the influence of physical and chemical conditions and biotic factors on the distribution and diversity of meiofauna in intertidal zone along a geographical gradient.

TL;DR: Since prey availability does not seem to be a limiting factor in the understanding of variability and consistency of H. guttulatus populations, further studies on other environmental and biological aspects could be useful in the assessment of the conservation status of long-snouted seahorses.