Aquaculture is one of the fastest growing food production sectors and has great potential for
food security and livelihoods. However, it generates concerning consequences for the …

Objective Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a common, highly heritable immune‐mediated
arthropathy that occurs in genetically susceptible individuals exposed to an unknown but …

Environmental diversity surveys are crucial for the bioassessment of anthropogenic impacts
on marine ecosystems. Traditional benthic monitoring relying on morphotaxonomic …

Benthic indices based on the Polychaetes/Amphipods (P/A) ratio have been proposed to
assess the environmental quality status of ecosystems in estuarine and coastal waters …

Sea-based fish farms are associated with strong, benthic enrichment gradients and routine
monitoring is usually required by regulation. This has traditionally been based on benthic …

Since the 1960 s, there has been a rapid expansion of drilling activities in the central and
northern Adriatic Sea to meet the increasing global energy demand. The discharges of …

We evaluated benthic bacterial communities as bioindicators in environmental impact
assessments of salmon aquaculture, a rapidly growing sector of seafood industry. Sediment …

Assessing the environmental impact of salmon farms on benthic systems is traditionally
undertaken using biotic indices derived from microscopic analyses of macrobenthic infaunal …

The backbone of benthic marine monitoring programs is the biological component,
traditionally the macrofauna inventory. Such macrofauna-based environmental impact …

Marine sediments contain a high diversity of micro-and macro-organisms which are
important in the functioning of biogeochemical cycles. Traditionally, anthropogenic …