Stefano Malavasi

TL;DR: In this article, the authors investigated the different uses and the functional roles of shallow habitats for fish fauna in the Venice Lagoon, by applying the functional guilds approach, and showed that temporal and spatial changes within the lagoon show different habitat uses by fish assemblages, not influenced by local factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors studied the fish assemblages in the Venice Lagoon by surveying fyke nets in three shallow water areas, which were located at different distances from the marine inlets and characterized by different types of substrate.

TL;DR: Congruence between the acoustic affinities among species and that obtained by means of morphological and genetic data is suggested, and first hypotheses on the evolution of acoustic communication and the associated mechanisms in this fish group are suggested.

TL;DR: There is a general lack of information related to the optimal environmental conditions that should be provided for the range of species covered by this directive, and a single synthesis of the current issues related to fish welfare is discussed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the small-sized fish assemblages of the Venice Lagoon were investigated and compared among five shallow subtidal habitats (seagrass beds, sparsely vegetated habitats, unvegetated sand bottoms, mudflats and saltmarsh creeks) in the Northern lagoon basin.