Multidisciplinary ecological assessment of the Alcantara River (Sicily, Italy) using bioindicators

Guglielmo, Letterio; Azzaro, F.; Baviera, Cosimo; Bergamasco, A.; Bissett, Spencer N.; Brugnano, Cinzia; Caruso, Gabriella; Decembrini, F.; Garey, Andrew L.; Granata, Antonia; Gugliandolo, Concetta; Lentini, Valeria; Gullo, M. A. Lo; Maugeri, Teresa L.; Pansera, Marco; Raimondo, Fabio; Valdés, Luis; Smock, Leonard A.; Spanò, Antonio; Trifilò, Patrizia; Vick, Jaclyn K.; Young, Donald R.; Zagami, Giacomo; Zinnert, Julie C.; Minutoli, Roberta

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“…Isolated investigations on the bacterial community of Tindari ponds (Zaccone et al, 2000;Caruso et al, 2005) and River Alcantara (Guglielmo et al, 2013) were carried out in the first years of this century.…”

Section: Bacteria and Archaeamentioning

confidence: 99%

“…After the publication of the paper by Berzins, the monogonont fauna in Sicilian inland waters was seldom investigated, and no information is available on bdelloid rotifers. A further list of rotifers, collected in a series of seasonal surveys on the plankton of Sicilian lakes and reservoirs, was published almost 40 years after the paper by Berzins (Calvo et al, 1993), whereas the first data on rotifers in lotic ecosystems were recently provided by Guglielmo et al (2013) and Rodriguez et al (2013) who studied the rotifer assemblage of River Alcantara.…”

Section: Rotifersmentioning

confidence: 99%

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A century of research on micro-organisms from the inland waters of the largest Mediterranean island

Marrone¹,

Naselli-Flores²

2022

Adv Ocean Limnol

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The first studies on the micro-organisms inhabiting Sicilian inland waters date back to the middle of the XIX century. However, these were based on single samples and mainly addressed at compiling faunistic and floristic inventories. It was in the first decades of the XX century that the first methodical studies were performed, which focussed on assessing microbial diversity in saline and hypersaline inland waters. Studies on plankton dynamics in ponds and reservoirs of the island started at the beginning of the 1980s and, since the end of the 1990s, temporary waters have also been intensively sampled, especially as regards phytoplankton and micro-crustaceans. These intensified sampling efforts contributed to increasing our knowledge of the composition, structure and functioning of the planktic compartment. On the contrary, studies on benthic microflora and fauna are still numerically scarce and mostly based on occasional collections. Also, running waters have received little attention and the methodical analysis of their micro-organisms is still in its infancy.

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Section: Bacteria and Archaeamentioning

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Section: Rotifersmentioning

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A century of research on micro-organisms from the inland waters of the largest Mediterranean island

Marrone¹,

Naselli-Flores²

2022

Adv Ocean Limnol

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Microbial assemblages for environmental quality assessment: Knowledge, gaps and usefulness in the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive

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Ferla

Azzaro

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Critical Reviews in Microbiology

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The EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive 2008/56/EC (MSFD) defines a framework for Community actions in the field of marine environmental policy in order to achieve and/or maintain the Good Environmental Status (GES) of the European seas by 2020. Microbial assemblages (from viruses to microbial-sized metazoa) provide a major contribution to global biodiversity and play a crucial role in the functioning of marine ecosystems, but are largely ignored by the MSFD. Prokaryotes are only seen as "microbial pathogens," without defining their role in GES indicators. However, structural or functional prokaryotic variables (abundance, biodiversity and metabolism) can be easily incorporated into several MSFD descriptors (i.e. D1. biodiversity, D4. food webs, D5. eutrophication, D8. contaminants and D9. contaminants in seafood) with beneficial effects. This review provides a critical analysis of the current MSFD descriptors and illustrates the reliability and advantages of the potential incorporation of some prokaryotic variables within the set of indicators of marine environmental quality. Following a cost/benefit analysis against scientific and economic criteria, we conclude that marine microbial components, and particularly prokaryotes, are highly effective for detecting the effects of anthropogenic pressures on marine environments and for assessing changes in the environmental health status. Thus, we recommend the inclusion of these components in future implementations of the MSFD.

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A georeferenced dataset of Italian occurrence records of the phylum Rotifera

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We report a dataset of known and published occurrence records of Italian taxa from species (and subspecies) to family rank of the phylum Rotifera; we considered only Bdelloidea, Monogononta, and Seisonacea, and did not include Acanthocephala. The dataset includes 15,525 records (12,015 of which with georeferenced coordinates) of 584 valid species and subspecies names, gathered from 332 published papers. The published literature spans the period from 1838 to 2022, with the lowest number of papers published during the Second World War followed by an increasing number of papers, from 20 to more than 60 in each decade. The Italian regions with the highest number of records and species are Emilia-Romagna, Lombardy, and Piedmont, whereas no records are known for Molise. The number of species known from each region mostly mirrors sampling efforts, measured as the number of publications per region. The dataset is available through the Open Science Framework (OSF), and all the georeferenced occurrence data have been uploaded to the Global Biodiversity Information Facility (GBIF).

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Multidisciplinary ecological assessment of the Alcantara River (Sicily, Italy) using bioindicators

Cited by 4 publications

References 64 publications

A century of research on micro-organisms from the inland waters of the largest Mediterranean island

A century of research on micro-organisms from the inland waters of the largest Mediterranean island

Microbial assemblages for environmental quality assessment: Knowledge, gaps and usefulness in the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive

A georeferenced dataset of Italian occurrence records of the phylum Rotifera

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