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        <title type="main" level="a">Monitoring of Posidonia oceanica meadows in the Sicilian coasts under the Water Framework Directive (WFD)</title>
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            <forename>Giancarlo</forename>
            <surname>Bellissimo</surname>
            <placeName type="affiliation">ARPA, Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente della Sicilia, Italy</placeName>
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            <forename>Benedetto</forename>
            <surname>Sirchia</surname>
            <placeName type="affiliation">ARPA, Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente della Sicilia, Italy</placeName>
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            <forename>Vincenzo</forename>
            <surname>Ruvolo</surname>
            <placeName type="affiliation">ARPA, Agenzia Regionale per la Protezione dell'Ambiente della Sicilia, Italy</placeName>
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          <resp>This is a section of <title>Eighth International Symposium “Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas. Problems and Measurement Techniques”</title>(DOI: <idno type="DOI">10.36253/978-88-5518-147-1</idno>) by </resp>
          <name>Donatella Carboni, Laura Bonora, Matteo De Vincenzi</name>
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        <publisher>Firenze University Press</publisher>
        <pubPlace>Firenze</pubPlace>
        <date when="2020">2020</date>
        <idno type="DOI">https://doi.org/10.36253/978-88-5518-147-1.51</idno>
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        <p>The present paper aims to assess for the first time the ecological status of the Sicilian water bodies using the PREI (Posidonia oceanica Rapid Easy Index) method according to the Water Framework Directive (WFD, 2000/60/EC) requirements. The PREI is based on five metrics: shoot density, shoot leaf surface area, E/L ratio, depth of lower limit, and type of this lower limit. Monitoring of the 29 P. oceanica meadows allowed to classify the 20 WBs of Sicilian coasts in the first two levels of status: 10 as “high” and 10 as “good” with the PREI values ranged between 0,551 and 1.</p>
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            <item>Ecological status</item>
            <item>Posidonia oceanica</item>
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            <item>Sicilian coast</item>
            <item>Water Framework Directive</item>
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