Response of the Venice Lagoon ecosystem to natural and anthropogenic pressures over the last 50 years

Coastal Lagoons: Critical Habitats of Environmental Change

Volumn , Issue , 2010, Pages 483-511

  Solidoro, Cosimo ^a   Bandelj, Vinko ^a   Bernardi, Fabrizio Aubry ^b   Camatti, Elisa ^b   Ciavatta, Stefano ^c,d   Cossarini, Gianpiero ^a   Facca, Chiara ^d   Franzoi, Piero ^d   Libralato, Simone ^a   Canu, Donata Melaku ^a   Pastres, Roberto ^d   Pranovi, Fabio ^d   Raicevich, Sasa ^e   Socal, Giorgio ^b   Sfriso, Adriano ^d   Sigovini, Marco ^b   Tagliapietra, Davide ^b   Torricelli, Patrizia ^d  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCES   (Italy)

^c PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^e INSTITUTE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION AND RESEARCH ISPRA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Benthic community responses; Climate change; Coastal zone management; Eutrophication; Human impacts; Manila clams; Ulva; Venice lagoon

Indexed keywords

EID: 84976632204     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/EBK1420088304     Document Type: Chapter

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