Vegetated marine and freshwater habitats are being increasingly lost around the world.
Habitat restoration is a critical step for conserving these valuable habitats, but new …

Some species of seagrasses (eg, Zostera marina and Posidonia oceanica) have declined in
the Mediterranean, at least locally. Others are progressing, helped by sea warming, such as …

In this paper we demonstrate a novel framework for assessing nature-based solutions
(NBSs) in coastal zones using a new suite of numerical models that provide a virtual …

Both seagrasses and bivalves molluscs act as ecosystem engineers in marine systems by
forming habitat or modifying environmental conditions. They also have the potential for …

Ecosystems threatened by climate change can boost their resilience by developing spatial
patterns. Spatially regular patterns in wave-exposed seagrass meadows are attributed to …

Dispersion processes in environmental flows have been traditionally studied under the
strong assumption of homogeneous, isotropic and stationary turbulence. To overcome this …

In the last two decades Pinna nobilis, the largest bivalve mollusk endemic to the
Mediterranean Sea, has recolonized the tidal flats of some coastal lagoons along the Italian …

The soundscape of the marine environment is a combination of geophony, biophony and
anthropophony. Here, the soundscape of the Gulf of Oristano, a shallow inlet on the western …

Abstract Theory of self-organization, ie, scale-dependent feedback (SDF), has been widely
used to explain mechanisms of spatial patterns in different ecosystems. Studies have …

Natural souvenirs collection has been identified as a driving force in biodiversity and habitat
degradation of tropical marine ecosystems. This work considers this phenomenon in the …