Denti, G.; Rubino, F.; Cecere, E.; Petrocelli, A. Native and Non-Indigenous Biota Associated with the Cymodocea nodosa (Tracheophyta, Alismatales) Meadow in the Seas of Taranto (Southern Italy, Mediterranean Sea). Diversity2024, 16, 368.
Denti, G.; Rubino, F.; Cecere, E.; Petrocelli, A. Native and Non-Indigenous Biota Associated with the Cymodocea nodosa (Tracheophyta, Alismatales) Meadow in the Seas of Taranto (Southern Italy, Mediterranean Sea). Diversity 2024, 16, 368.
Denti, G.; Rubino, F.; Cecere, E.; Petrocelli, A. Native and Non-Indigenous Biota Associated with the Cymodocea nodosa (Tracheophyta, Alismatales) Meadow in the Seas of Taranto (Southern Italy, Mediterranean Sea). Diversity2024, 16, 368.
Denti, G.; Rubino, F.; Cecere, E.; Petrocelli, A. Native and Non-Indigenous Biota Associated with the Cymodocea nodosa (Tracheophyta, Alismatales) Meadow in the Seas of Taranto (Southern Italy, Mediterranean Sea). Diversity 2024, 16, 368.
Abstract
The collection of photo shoots during the systematic monitoring activities is useful to witness the ecological role of marine phanerogams as hosts for a rich variety of organisms in coastal and transitional waters. Cymodocea nodosa is present in the Taranto seas. In the Mar Piccolo, it reached high covers in short times, up to 100%, due to the bettering of the environmental conditions. The most recent observations showed that it offers welcoming towards several vertebrates and invertebrates, native and non-indigenous, as well as to micro and macroalgae. The NPPR funded activities will make these observations more robust and structural.
Keywords
biodiversity; Cymodocea nodosa; ecosystem services; ITINERIS, LTER; Mar Piccolo of Taranto; Mediterranean Sea; non-indigenous species; NBFC
Subject
Environmental and Earth Sciences, Ecology
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