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Dr. Otello Giovanardi
ISPRA (Italian National Institute for Environmental Protecion and Research)

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Fishery and aquaculture biologist and ecologist, mainly in the Mediterranean sea

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Journal article
Published: 24 January 2021 in Sustainability
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Human pressures on marine ecosystems significantly increased during last decades. Among the intense anthropic activities, industrial fisheries have caused the alteration of habitats, the reduction of biodiversity and the main fish stocks. The aim of this research, carried out in the Adriatic Sea, was to test a repeatable Marine Spatial Planning framework aimed at enhancing fisheries sustainability through the application of Decision Support Tools and the composition of a catalog of possible measures. The use of these tools proved very useful to identify possible criticalities and facilitate an effective exchange with fisheries stakeholders, local authorities, and fishermen, whose involvement was an indispensable step in the process. Tool-based analyses allowed to assess the spatial footprint of a range of anthropogenic pressures from human activities (e.g., fisheries, maritime traffic, and aquaculture). Within this multi-pressure scenario, special attention was paid to fishing-related disturbances and potential conflicts across different fishing métier and with other sectors. Specifically, results highlighted the spatial features of the major fishing pressures (e.g., abrasion from trawling) affecting essential fish habitats, marine mammals and turtles in the study area. A portfolio of possible management measures is identified for the study area. It provides clear evidence that, in order to mitigate emerging conflicts and cumulative impacts, it is necessary to combine and integrate different types of measures: spatial measures modulated over time, monitoring and control, actions to fill knowledge gaps, concertation—involvement—co-management actions, improvement of governance systems, actions to support innovation in the sector, etc. Given the complex set of measures discussed, this work can provide a useful contribution to the management of fisheries both at local and regional level, fostering the transition to sustainable fisheries.

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Giulio Farella; Anna Tassetti; Stefano Menegon; Martina Bocci; Carmen Ferrà; Fabio Grati; Amedeo Fadini; Otello Giovanardi; Gianna Fabi; Saša Raicevich; Andrea Barbanti. Ecosystem-Based MSP for Enhanced Fisheries Sustainability: An Example from the Northern Adriatic (Chioggia—Venice and Rovigo, Italy). Sustainability 2021, 13, 1211 .

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Giulio Farella, Anna Tassetti, Stefano Menegon, Martina Bocci, Carmen Ferrà, Fabio Grati, Amedeo Fadini, Otello Giovanardi, Gianna Fabi, Saša Raicevich, Andrea Barbanti. Ecosystem-Based MSP for Enhanced Fisheries Sustainability: An Example from the Northern Adriatic (Chioggia—Venice and Rovigo, Italy). Sustainability. 2021; 13 (3):1211.

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Giulio Farella; Anna Tassetti; Stefano Menegon; Martina Bocci; Carmen Ferrà; Fabio Grati; Amedeo Fadini; Otello Giovanardi; Gianna Fabi; Saša Raicevich; Andrea Barbanti. 2021. "Ecosystem-Based MSP for Enhanced Fisheries Sustainability: An Example from the Northern Adriatic (Chioggia—Venice and Rovigo, Italy)." Sustainability 13, no. 3: 1211.

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Published: 23 June 2017 in Frontiers in Marine Science
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Corrigendum: Analysis of Long-Term Changes in a Mediterranean Marine Ecosystem Based on Fishery Landings

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Tomaso Fortibuoni; Otello Giovanardi; Fabio Pranovi; Saša Raicevich; Cosimo Solidoro; Simone Libralato. Corrigendum: Analysis of Long-Term Changes in a Mediterranean Marine Ecosystem Based on Fishery Landings. Frontiers in Marine Science 2017, 4, 1 .

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Tomaso Fortibuoni, Otello Giovanardi, Fabio Pranovi, Saša Raicevich, Cosimo Solidoro, Simone Libralato. Corrigendum: Analysis of Long-Term Changes in a Mediterranean Marine Ecosystem Based on Fishery Landings. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2017; 4 ():1.

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Tomaso Fortibuoni; Otello Giovanardi; Fabio Pranovi; Saša Raicevich; Cosimo Solidoro; Simone Libralato. 2017. "Corrigendum: Analysis of Long-Term Changes in a Mediterranean Marine Ecosystem Based on Fishery Landings." Frontiers in Marine Science 4, no. : 1.

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Published: 01 June 2017 in Chemosphere
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Plastic waste is a growing global environmental problem, particularly in the marine ecosystems, in consideration of its persistence. The monitoring of the plastic waste has become a global issue, as reported by several surveillance guidelines proposed by Regional Sea Conventions (OSPAR, UNEP) and appointed by the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Policy responses to plastic waste vary at many levels, ranging from beach clean-up to bans on the commercialization of plastic bags and to Regional Plans for waste management and recycling. Moreover, in recent years, the production of plant-derived biodegradable plastic polymers has assumed increasing importance. This study reports the first preliminary characterization of carbon stable isotopes (δC) of different plastic polymers (petroleum- and plant-derived) in order to increase the dataset of isotopic values as a tool for further investigation in different fields of polymers research as well as in the marine environment surveillance. The δC values determined in different packaging for food uses reflect the plant origin of "BIO" materials, whereas the recycled plastic materials displayed a δC signatures between plant- and petroleum-derived polymers source. In a preliminary estimation, the different colours of plastic did not affect the variability of δC values, whereas the abiotic and biotic degradation processes that occurred in the plastic materials collected on beaches and in seawater, showed less negative δC values. A preliminary experimental field test confirmed these results. The advantages offered by isotope ratio mass spectrometry with respect to other analytical methods used to characterize the composition of plastic polymers are: high sensitivity, small amount of material required, rapidity of analysis, low cost and no limitation in black/dark samples compared with spectroscopic analysis.

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Daniela Berto; Federico Rampazzo; Claudia Gion; Seta Noventa; Francesca Ronchi; Umberto Traldi; Giordano Giorgi; Anna Maria Cicero; Otello Giovanardi. Preliminary study to characterize plastic polymers using elemental analyser/isotope ratio mass spectrometry (EA/IRMS). Chemosphere 2017, 176, 47 -56.

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Daniela Berto, Federico Rampazzo, Claudia Gion, Seta Noventa, Francesca Ronchi, Umberto Traldi, Giordano Giorgi, Anna Maria Cicero, Otello Giovanardi. Preliminary study to characterize plastic polymers using elemental analyser/isotope ratio mass spectrometry (EA/IRMS). Chemosphere. 2017; 176 ():47-56.

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Daniela Berto; Federico Rampazzo; Claudia Gion; Seta Noventa; Francesca Ronchi; Umberto Traldi; Giordano Giorgi; Anna Maria Cicero; Otello Giovanardi. 2017. "Preliminary study to characterize plastic polymers using elemental analyser/isotope ratio mass spectrometry (EA/IRMS)." Chemosphere 176, no. : 47-56.

Original research article
Published: 13 February 2017 in Frontiers in Marine Science
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In the Mediterranean Sea, structured and standardized monitoring programs of marine resources were set only in the last decades, so the need to analyze changes in marine communities over longer time scale has to rely on different sources. In this work, we used seven decades (1945-2014) of disaggregated landing statistics for the Northern Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean) to infer changes in the ecosystem. Analysis of landings composition was enriched with the application of a suite of ecological indicators (e.g., trophodynamic indicators, such as the primary production required to sustain the catches - PPR; size-based indicators, such as the large species indicator - LSI; other indicators, such as the elasmobranchs-bony fish ratio – E/B ratio). Indicators were further compared with main ecosystem drivers, i.e., fishing capacity, nutrient loads and climate change. Species most vulnerable to fishing (i.e., elasmobranchs and large-sized species) dramatically declined at the beginning of the industrialization of fishery that occurred right afterwards World War II, as can be inferred by the negative drop of LSI and E/B ratio in the mid-1950s. However, until the mid-1980s landings and PPR increased due to improvements in fishing activities (e.g., the introduction of more efficient fishing gears) increasing fishing capacity, high productivity of the ecosystem. Overall, long-term effects of fishing were buffered by an increase in productivity in the period of high nutrient discharge (up to mid-1980s), but still drove significant changes in fish community structure. From the mid-1980s, a reduction in nutrient load caused a decline in productivity but the food-web structure was already modified and unable to support, or recover from, such unbalanced situation, resulting in the collapse of landings. This collapse is coherent with alternative stable states hypothesis, typical of complex real systems, that implies drastic interventions that go beyond fisheries management and include regulation of nutrient release for recovery. The work highlights that, despite poor capabilities to track species dynamics, landings and applied indicators might help to shed light on the long-term dynamics of marine communities, thus contributing to place current situation in an historical framework with potential for supporting management.

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Tomaso Fortibuoni; Otello Giovanardi; Fabio Pranovi; Saša Raicevich; Cosimo Solidoro; Simone Libralato. Analysis of Long-Term Changes in a Mediterranean Marine Ecosystem Based on Fishery Landings. Frontiers in Marine Science 2017, 4, 1 .

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Tomaso Fortibuoni, Otello Giovanardi, Fabio Pranovi, Saša Raicevich, Cosimo Solidoro, Simone Libralato. Analysis of Long-Term Changes in a Mediterranean Marine Ecosystem Based on Fishery Landings. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2017; 4 ():1.

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Tomaso Fortibuoni; Otello Giovanardi; Fabio Pranovi; Saša Raicevich; Cosimo Solidoro; Simone Libralato. 2017. "Analysis of Long-Term Changes in a Mediterranean Marine Ecosystem Based on Fishery Landings." Frontiers in Marine Science 4, no. : 1.

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Published: 01 January 2017 in Marine Pollution Bulletin
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At present, few studies have investigated the marine litter abundance, composition and distribution on rocky bottoms due to sampling constraints. We surveyed by means of the ROV imaging technique a system of biogenic rocky outcrops classified as a Site of Community Importance in the Adriatic Sea. A mean density of 3.3 (±1.8) items/100m was recorded, with a strong dominance of fishing- and aquaculture-related debris, accounting for 69.4% and 18.9% of the total, respectively. The abundance of litter over the rocky bottoms was significantly higher than that on soft substrates, and its spatial distribution proved to be related to hydrographic factors. Litter-fauna interactions were high, with most of the debris (65.7%) entangling or covering benthic organisms, in particular habitat constructors such as the endangered sea sponge Geodia cydonium. Unless appropriate measures are undertaken to address this problem, the abundance of marine litter in the area is likely to increase.

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Valentina Melli; Michela Angiolillo; Francesca Ronchi; Simonepietro Canese; Otello Giovanardi; Stefano Querin; Tomaso Fortibuoni. The first assessment of marine debris in a Site of Community Importance in the north-western Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Marine Pollution Bulletin 2017, 114, 821 -830.

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Valentina Melli, Michela Angiolillo, Francesca Ronchi, Simonepietro Canese, Otello Giovanardi, Stefano Querin, Tomaso Fortibuoni. The first assessment of marine debris in a Site of Community Importance in the north-western Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Marine Pollution Bulletin. 2017; 114 (2):821-830.

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Valentina Melli; Michela Angiolillo; Francesca Ronchi; Simonepietro Canese; Otello Giovanardi; Stefano Querin; Tomaso Fortibuoni. 2017. "The first assessment of marine debris in a Site of Community Importance in the north-western Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea)." Marine Pollution Bulletin 114, no. 2: 821-830.

Journal article
Published: 01 November 2015 in Regional Studies in Marine Science
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Monica Mion; Camilla Piras; Tomaso Fortibuoni; Igor Celić; Gianluca Franceschini; Otello Giovanardi; Andrea Belardinelli; Michela Martinelli; Saša Raicevich. Collection and validation of self-sampled e-logbook data in a Mediterranean demersal trawl fishery. Regional Studies in Marine Science 2015, 2, 76 -86.

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Monica Mion, Camilla Piras, Tomaso Fortibuoni, Igor Celić, Gianluca Franceschini, Otello Giovanardi, Andrea Belardinelli, Michela Martinelli, Saša Raicevich. Collection and validation of self-sampled e-logbook data in a Mediterranean demersal trawl fishery. Regional Studies in Marine Science. 2015; 2 ():76-86.

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Monica Mion; Camilla Piras; Tomaso Fortibuoni; Igor Celić; Gianluca Franceschini; Otello Giovanardi; Andrea Belardinelli; Michela Martinelli; Saša Raicevich. 2015. "Collection and validation of self-sampled e-logbook data in a Mediterranean demersal trawl fishery." Regional Studies in Marine Science 2, no. : 76-86.

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Published: 28 March 2015 in Regional Environmental Change
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Global warming is increasingly affecting marine ecosystems and ecological services they provide. One of the major consequences is a shift in species geographical distribution, which may affect resources availability to fisheries. We computed the mean temperature of the catch (MTC) for Italian catches from 1972 to 2012 to test if an increase of warmer-water species against colder-water ones was observed. We further analysed the relationship among MTC, landings, fishing effort and climatic factors through a Linear Mixed Models approach. Global MTC increased at a rate of 0.12 _C per decade. Though, by considering the influence of sea surface temperature (SST), a strongest increase (0.31 _C) was estimated in southernmost areas, while in the northernmost basin (Northern Adriatic Sea) a decrease of 0.14 _C was observed. SST resulted the most relevant driver, and the relationship between MTC and SST showed a high spatial variability both in terms of strength and sign, being positively stronger in southernmost areas while negative in the northernmost basin. The result is probably underestimated since several psychrophilous and thermophilous species were not included in the analysis. However, it seems that a change towards warmer-water species has already occurred in Italian marine ecosystems. Conversely, total landings temporal dynamics seem mostly driven by changes in fishing effort rather than by MTC and climatic factors. Consequently, fishery management strategies need to focalize primarily on fishing effort reduction, in order to reduce the pressure on the stocks while increasing their resilience to other stressors, among which global warmin

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Tomaso Fortibuoni; Federica Aldighieri; Otello Giovanardi; Fabio Pranovi; Matteo Zucchetta. Climate impact on Italian fisheries (Mediterranean Sea). Regional Environmental Change 2015, 15, 931 -937.

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Tomaso Fortibuoni, Federica Aldighieri, Otello Giovanardi, Fabio Pranovi, Matteo Zucchetta. Climate impact on Italian fisheries (Mediterranean Sea). Regional Environmental Change. 2015; 15 (5):931-937.

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Tomaso Fortibuoni; Federica Aldighieri; Otello Giovanardi; Fabio Pranovi; Matteo Zucchetta. 2015. "Climate impact on Italian fisheries (Mediterranean Sea)." Regional Environmental Change 15, no. 5: 931-937.

Research article
Published: 17 November 2010 in PLOS ONE
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The understanding of fish communities' changes over the past centuries has important implications for conservation policy and marine resource management. However, reconstructing these changes is difficult because information on marine communities before the second half of the 20th century is, in most cases, anecdotal and merely qualitative. Therefore, historical qualitative records and modern quantitative data are not directly comparable, and their integration for long-term analyses is not straightforward. We developed a methodology that allows the coding of qualitative information provided by early naturalists into semi-quantitative information through an intercalibration with landing proportions. This approach allowed us to reconstruct and quantitatively analyze a 200-year-long time series of fish community structure indicators in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea). Our analysis provides evidence of long-term changes in fish community structure, including the decline of Chondrichthyes, large-sized and late-maturing species. This work highlights the importance of broadening the time-frame through which we look at marine ecosystem changes and provides a methodology to exploit, in a quantitative framework, historical qualitative sources. To the purpose, naturalists' eyewitness accounts proved to be useful for extending the analysis on fish community back in the past, well before the onset of field-based monitoring programs.

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Tomaso Fortibuoni; Simone Libralato; Saša Raicevich; Otello Giovanardi; Cosimo Solidoro. Coding Early Naturalists' Accounts into Long-Term Fish Community Changes in the Adriatic Sea (1800–2000). PLOS ONE 2010, 5, e15502 .

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Tomaso Fortibuoni, Simone Libralato, Saša Raicevich, Otello Giovanardi, Cosimo Solidoro. Coding Early Naturalists' Accounts into Long-Term Fish Community Changes in the Adriatic Sea (1800–2000). PLOS ONE. 2010; 5 (11):e15502.

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Tomaso Fortibuoni; Simone Libralato; Saša Raicevich; Otello Giovanardi; Cosimo Solidoro. 2010. "Coding Early Naturalists' Accounts into Long-Term Fish Community Changes in the Adriatic Sea (1800–2000)." PLOS ONE 5, no. 11: e15502.

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Published: 12 April 2008 in Hydrobiologia
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Several studies have considered the direct and indirect effects of demersal trawling on discarded species in terms of sublethal damages, survival, and stress due to the fishing processes. Nevertheless the effects of air temperature on the physiological stress and the survival of species during sorting operations were only marginally explored. This factor could be particularly important in the context of sustainable fisheries at temperate latitudes where the seasonal variation of air temperature can be particularly pronounced. In this study the seasonal effects of rapido trawling on the non-target species Liocarcinus depurator (Portunidae) in the Northern Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea) have been compared by applying survival tests and considering the unbalance in metabolites’ concentration as indicators of physiological stress. Results showed consistently higher mortalities during exposure to air in summer (temperature: 28°C), which reached about 96% in 20 min, compared to winter (temperature: 9°C) when only 2% of individuals died. Furthermore trawled and emersed crabs showed significant increase of hemolymph ammonia, lactate, and glucose concentrations as effects of extreme exercise and suffocation, which was more prominent during summer, suggesting that air temperature can play an important role in determining non-target species survival.

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Folco Giomi; Saša Raicevich; Otello Giovanardi; Fabio Pranovi; Paolo Di Muro; Mariano Beltramini. Catch me in winter! Seasonal variation in air temperature severely enhances physiological stress and mortality of species subjected to sorting operations and discarded during annual fishing activities. Hydrobiologia 2008, 606, 195 -202.

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Folco Giomi, Saša Raicevich, Otello Giovanardi, Fabio Pranovi, Paolo Di Muro, Mariano Beltramini. Catch me in winter! Seasonal variation in air temperature severely enhances physiological stress and mortality of species subjected to sorting operations and discarded during annual fishing activities. Hydrobiologia. 2008; 606 (1):195-202.

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Folco Giomi; Saša Raicevich; Otello Giovanardi; Fabio Pranovi; Paolo Di Muro; Mariano Beltramini. 2008. "Catch me in winter! Seasonal variation in air temperature severely enhances physiological stress and mortality of species subjected to sorting operations and discarded during annual fishing activities." Hydrobiologia 606, no. 1: 195-202.

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Published: 01 January 2003 in Marine Ecology Progress Series
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A study was carried out in June/July 1996 in the River Po outflow in the northern Adriatic to investigate spawning of anchovy Engraulis encrasicolus and survival of larvae in relation to food availability and wind mixing. Hydrographic- and bongo net sampling was carried out on 2 grid sur- veys; one after a period of low winds and settled weather, and the other after an intervening period of strong winds, which resulted in a decrease in water column stratification. The spawning areas of an- chovy and the larval distributions were associated with the river outflow plume (most clearly on the second survey grid, after the period of higher winds). Potential food particles for anchovy larvae, pri- marily copepod nauplii and copepodite stages, were also concentrated in the area influenced by the river outflow. Although there was a nearly 50% reduction in the mean water column abundance of potential food particles between the 2 survey grids, mostly due to a decline in abundance outside the immediate river plume area, there was no significant change in mortality of anchovy larvae between the 2 grids; the exponential decline in numbers of eggs and larvae to 10 mm in length being equivalent to overall mortality rates of 43.2% d -1 on the first survey and 44.7% d -1 on the second. The resilience of larval survival under potentially less favourable feeding conditions, following the period of wind mixing, was ascribed, in part, to the maintenance of local water column stratification by the superficial low salinity input from the River Po. This stratification in the immediate outflow area was associated with the presence of concentrated layers of potential food particles (typically >50 particles l -1 and 1.5 to 2.8 times the mean water column abundance) in the upper 10 m of the water column, coincident with peak numbers of anchovy larvae. However, since there was no evidence for lower larval survival in areas, less influenced by the immediate river outflow plume, a simple direct relationship between enhanced water column stability, improved feeding conditions and larval survival was not supported.

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Sh Coombs; O Giovanardi; Nc Halliday; G Franceschini; Dvp Conway; L Manzueto; Cd Barrett; Irb McFadzen. Wind mixing, food availability and mortality of anchovy larvae Engraulis encrasicolus in the northern Adriatic Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series 2003, 248, 221 -235.

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Sh Coombs, O Giovanardi, Nc Halliday, G Franceschini, Dvp Conway, L Manzueto, Cd Barrett, Irb McFadzen. Wind mixing, food availability and mortality of anchovy larvae Engraulis encrasicolus in the northern Adriatic Sea. Marine Ecology Progress Series. 2003; 248 ():221-235.

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Sh Coombs; O Giovanardi; Nc Halliday; G Franceschini; Dvp Conway; L Manzueto; Cd Barrett; Irb McFadzen. 2003. "Wind mixing, food availability and mortality of anchovy larvae Engraulis encrasicolus in the northern Adriatic Sea." Marine Ecology Progress Series 248, no. : 221-235.

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Published: 01 March 2002 in Journal of Invertebrate Pathology
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Rossella Boscolo; Otello Giovanardi. Polydora ciliata shell infestation in Tapes philippinarum Manila clam held out of the substrate in the Adriatic sea, Italy. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 2002, 79, 197 -198.

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Rossella Boscolo, Otello Giovanardi. Polydora ciliata shell infestation in Tapes philippinarum Manila clam held out of the substrate in the Adriatic sea, Italy. Journal of Invertebrate Pathology. 2002; 79 (3):197-198.

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Rossella Boscolo; Otello Giovanardi. 2002. "Polydora ciliata shell infestation in Tapes philippinarum Manila clam held out of the substrate in the Adriatic sea, Italy." Journal of Invertebrate Pathology 79, no. 3: 197-198.