Analysis of the amphipod syntaxon on hard bottoms anti-trawling structures Michela De Simone ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy Anna Di Cosmo University of Naples Federico II, Italy Ornella Nonnis ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy Gianluca Franceschini ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy Barbara Catalano ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy Paolo Tomassetti ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy Laura Ciaralli ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy Eleonora Monfardini ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy Benedetta Trabucco ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy This is a section of Tenth InternationaSymposium Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques(DOI: 10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6) by Laura Bonora, Marcantonio Catelani, Matteo De Vincenzi, Giorgio Matteucci Firenze University Press Florence 2024 https://doi.org/10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6.16

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This work is part of an environmental monitoring project conducted by Ispra since 2008, with the installation of two marine cables between the Lazio coast and Sardinia. Following the deployment of anti-trawl tripods, since 2017, a new Ispra monitoring plan was established to assess the integrity of the marine environment. The anti-trawl tripods have been periodically analyzed to examine various aspects of the marine area where they have been installed, including any changes in faunal and algal biodiversity resulting from the introduction of artificial structures. This study involves observing recruitment on the anti-trawl barriers to assess the colonization of artificial substrates introduced into the marine environment.

 Crustacea Amphipoda; sea environmental monitoring; recruitment; hard-bottom; Sardinia Sea

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