[HTML][HTML] Collating evidence on the restoration efforts of the seagrass Posidonia oceanica: current knowledge and gaps

A Pansini, M Bosch-Belmar, M Berlino, G Sarà… - Science of the Total …, 2022 - Elsevier
Seagrass meadows are important shallow coastal ecosystems due to their contribution to
enhancing biodiversity, nutrient cycling, carbon burial, and sediment stabilisation, but the …

[HTML][HTML] Coastal benthic habitat mapping and monitoring by integrating aerial and water surface low-cost drones

D Ventura, L Grosso, D Pensa, E Casoli… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2023 - frontiersin.org
Accurate data on community structure is a priority issue in studying coastal habitats facing
human pressures. The recent development of remote sensing tools has offered a ground …

Gravitational lensing reveals cool gas within 10-20 kpc around a quiescent galaxy

TM Barone, GG Kacprzak, JW Nightingale… - Communications …, 2024 - nature.com
While quiescent galaxies have comparable amounts of cool gas in their outer circumgalactic
medium (CGM) compared to star-forming galaxies, they have significantly less interstellar …

Potentials of low-budget microdrones: processing 3D point clouds and images for representing post-industrial landmarks in immersive virtual environments

M Weißmann, D Edler, A Rienow - Frontiers in Robotics and AI, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Post-industrial areas in Europe, such as the Rhine-Ruhr Metropolitan region in Germany,
include cultural heritage sites fostering local and regional identities with the industrial past …

Assessing seagrass restoration actions through a micro-bathymetry survey approach (Italy, mediterranean sea)

SF Rende, A Bosman, F Menna, A Lagudi, F Bruno… - Water, 2022 - mdpi.com
Underwater photogrammetry provides a means of generating high-resolution products such
as dense point clouds, 3D models, and orthomosaics with centimetric scale resolutions …

Transplantation on a Posidonia oceanica meadow to facilitate its recovery after the Concordia shipwrecking

G Mancini, D Ventura, E Casoli, A Belluscio… - Marine Pollution …, 2022 - Elsevier
Ecological restoration is an important tool to reverse habitat loss and recover ecosystem
services. Here, for two years, we examine the dynamic of Posidonia oceanica following the …

Integrating low-altitude drone based-imagery and OBIA for mapping and manage semi natural grassland habitats

D Ventura, F Napoleone, S Cannucci… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
Monitoring semi-natural grasslands is difficult and costly because they occur in highly
dynamic and extremely complex habitat mosaics. We combined the use of a low-cost …

Low-Tech and Low-Cost System for High-Resolution Underwater RTK Photogrammetry in Coastal Shallow Waters

M Jaud, S Delsol, I Urbina-Barreto, E Augereau… - Remote Sensing, 2023 - mdpi.com
Monitoring coastal seabed in very shallow waters (0–5 m) is a challenging methodological
issue, even though such data is of major importance to many scientific and technical …

Posidonia oceanica (L.) Delile, 1813 seedlings as a potential integrative tool for restoring damaged meadows

G Mancini, D Ventura, E Casoli… - Restoration …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Seagrasses provide key ecological services in coastal marine and estuarine environments.
Human activities and environmental changes affect seagrasses compromising their structure …

[HTML][HTML] Detecting trends in seagrass cover through aerial imagery interpretation: Historical dynamics of a Posidonia oceanica meadow subjected to anthropogenic …

G Mancini, G Mastrantonio, A Pollice, GJ Lasinio… - Ecological …, 2023 - Elsevier
Over the last century, P. oceanica meadows have undergone significant regression along
Mediterranean coasts due to anthropogenic disturbances. Using an integrated approach …