A Benthic Zonation System as a Fundamental Tool for Natural Capital Assessment in a Marine Environment: A Case Study in the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy

Marcelli, Marco; Scanu, Sergio; Frattarelli, Francesco Manfredi; Mancini, Emanuele; Carli, Filippo Maria

doi:10.3390/su10103786

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“…Las amenazas antropogénicas y naturales pueden transformar, degradar o limitar la prestación de servicios ecosistémicos. Los servicios de los ecosistemas marinos se han investigado ampliamente, con énfasis en los manglares (Duke et al, 2007;Barbier et al, 2011;Vo et al, 2012;Liquete et al, 2013;Mukherjee et al, 2014;Thompson et al, 2019), corales (Moberg, et al, 1999;Laurans et al, 2013;Woodhead et al, 2019) y costas rocosas (Wilson, 2005;Branch et al, 2008;Marcelli et al, 2018). En Colombia, se han realizado investigaciones enfocadas en los servicios de los ecosistemas marinos tanto en el Caribe (Blanco et al, 2012;Aldana-Domínguez et al, 2017) como en las costas del Pacífico de Colombia (Cantera et al, 2013;Palacios y Cantera, 2017;Mejía Rentería et al, 2019;Palacios et al, 2019;Rojas et al, 2019).…”

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Vulnerabilidad de los servicios ecosistémicos del área marina protegida Uramba

Uribe-Castañeda¹,

Satizabal²,

Herrera-Orozco

et al. 2020

Bol. Investig. Mar. Costeras

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Los sistemas marinos y costeros del área marina protegida (AMP) Uramba, así como en el resto del mundo, proporcionan una gran variedad de servicios ecosistémicos (i. e. protección costera, regulación de ciclos geoquímicos o provisión de alimento, etc.). Amenazas naturales y/o antropogénicas (i. e. como la erosión costera, el aumento relativo en el nivel del mar o la sobrepesca) pueden transformar, degradar o limitar el suministro de estos servicios ecosistémicos. Este estudio explora el grado de vulnerabilidad que presentan los servicios ecosistémicos del AMP Uramba ante las amenazas naturales y antropogénicas presentes. Los métodos incluyen una revisión bibliográfica, un taller de expertos, trabajo de campo para la validación y la georreferenciación de servicios y amenazas. Para calcular la vulnerabilidad de los servicios ecosistémicos, se estimó la magnitud de las amenazas, su riesgo y su capacidad de resiliencia. Las amenazas naturales y antropogénicas más frecuentes se encuentran en la región externa del AMP Uramba, en las localidades de Juanchaco, Ladrilleros y Base Naval. El aumento en el nivel del mar es la amenaza que más podría vulnerar los servicios ecosistémicos del AMP Uramba, incluyendo los siguientes: protección costera en playas arenosas, planos lodosos y manglares; regulación climática en playas arenosas y planos lodosos; recreación y turismo en playas arenosas y manglares; mantenimiento de ciclos de vida en manglares, y provisión de alimentos en planos lodosos. Los servicios ecosistémicos de la costa rocosa están amenazados principalmente por deslizamientos, y en el ecosistema pelágico por la sobrepesca.

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Vulnerabilidad de los servicios ecosistémicos del área marina protegida Uramba

Uribe-Castañeda¹,

Satizabal²,

Herrera-Orozco

et al. 2020

Bol. Investig. Mar. Costeras

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“…The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development was adopted at the United Nations General Assembly in 2015. The goal of "protecting and sustainable use of oceans and marine resources to promote sustainable development" has received positive responses from countries around the world [88]. There are several projects currently sponsored by the National Natural Funds of China.…”

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confidence: 99%

Review of Artificial Downwelling for Mitigating Hypoxia in Coastal Waters

Liu

Zhao

Xiao

et al. 2020

Water

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Hypoxia is becoming a serious problem in coastal waters in many parts of the world. Artificial downwelling, which is one of the geoengineering-based adaptation options, was suggested as an effective means of mitigating hypoxia in coastal waters. Artificial downwelling powered by green energy, such as solar, wind, wave, or tidal energy, can develop a compensatory downward flow on a kilometer scale, which favors below-pycnocline ventilation and thus mitigates hypoxia in bottom water. In this paper, we review and assess the technical, numerical, and experimental aspects of artificial downwelling all over the world, as well as its potential environmental effects. Some basic principles are presented, and assessment and advice are provided for each category. Some suggestions for further field-based research on artificial downwelling, especially for long-term field research, are also given.

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“…In fact, ecosystem quality and sedimentary disequilibria generated by the dredging activities can be estimated observing the soft bottom benthic communities that, having a longer life cycle than planktonic populations, are able to keep memory of events spanning over a wider period, so providing indications about previous perturbations [2].…”

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“…Due to the significant anthropic pressure (industrial, commercial, touristic etc. ), and to the high population density insisting on them, coastal marine areas represent the most vulnerable areas of the marine environment and frequently suffer the different impacts of the multiple uses of natural resources [2].…”

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Integrated Observing Systems Supporting Civitavecchia Port Development

Marcelli

Bonamano

Boschi

et al. 2019

WIT Transactions on the Built Environment

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Industrial and commercial, together with touristic and ecological, are two of the main uses of the Civitavecchia coastal area that bring wealth and of course influence this marine ecosystem. The port, one of the most important in the Mediterranean Sea, recorded in the last three decades a major increment of its commercial traffic, becoming also strategic for important Mediterranean cruise routes and for passenger flow. New passenger facilities and enhanced and enlarged wharfs allowed to increment the hosted cruise liners from 50 ships in 1996 to 500 in 2003. The creation of new quays and the extension of the anti-mural dame caused on the ecosystems a direct and indirect impact due to the modification of the currents and the dispersion of the dredged materials. The characterisation and assessment of the coastal marine environment of Civitavecchia and its surroundings constitutes, since its creation in 2001, is one of the main activities of the Laboratory of Experimental Oceanology and Marine Ecology (LOSEM) of Tuscia University, who studied the impact of anthropic activities and the influence of climatic events, investigating the chemical and physical parameters of both water column and sediments. Benthic biocenoses and Posidonia oceanica were used to evaluate benthos geochemical and ecological characteristics and a specific effort was devoted to hypothesize the possible incidence of dredging works on the benthic ecosystem. The results of the research activities are synthetically reviewed in this paper.

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A Benthic Zonation System as a Fundamental Tool for Natural Capital Assessment in a Marine Environment: A Case Study in the Northern Tyrrhenian Sea, Italy

Cited by 13 publications

References 29 publications

Vulnerabilidad de los servicios ecosistémicos del área marina protegida Uramba

Vulnerabilidad de los servicios ecosistémicos del área marina protegida Uramba

Review of Artificial Downwelling for Mitigating Hypoxia in Coastal Waters

Integrated Observing Systems Supporting Civitavecchia Port Development

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