Study of the hydrodynamical processes in the Boka Kotorska Bay with a finite element model

Bellafiore, Debora; Guarnieri, A.; Grilli, Federica; Penna, Pierluigi; Bortoluzzi, Guido; Giglio, Federico; Pinardi, Nadia

doi:10.1016/j.dynatmoce.2011.03.005

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“…(Bellafiore et al, 2011). Due to its characteristics, the Bay is considered ROFI (Region of Freshwater Influence) (Bellafiore et al, 2011). Kotor Bay, one of the areas covered by this research, is located in the innermost part of Boka Kotorska Bay, encompassing approximately 30% of the Bay area.…”

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“…In the Morinj-Risan and Kotor Bays, there are a lot of subaerial and submarine springs, among them Sopot and Ljuta which can reach higher peak of discharges for a short period (Figure 1.) (Bellafiore et al, 2011). Due to its characteristics, the Bay is considered ROFI (Region of Freshwater Influence) (Bellafiore et al, 2011).…”

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“…As of recently, increasing attention has been paid on sub-basins, such as coastal embayments, gulfs and lagoons as important part in coastal hydrodynamic studies in the Adriatic Sea (Bellafiore et al, 2011). A lot of information exists about these systems in the northern Adriatic, i.e.…”

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“…the Venice Lagoon (Bellafiore & Umgiesser, 2010;Ferrarin, Cucco, Umgiesser, Bellafiore, & Amos, 2010a) and the Grado and Marano lagoons (Ferrarin et al, 2010b) but less for other parts of Adriatic. The southern part of the Adriatic Sea, especially the part along Montenegro and Albania plays the crucial role in the general Adriatic Sea circulation (Bellafiore et al, 2011).…”

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“…The Bay is a transitional system as it is a boundary environment between land and sea, characterized with specific biological communities which differ from other adjacent marine and continental biomes (Sarno, Zingone, Saggiomo, & Carrada, 1993). Area of the Boka Kotorska Bay can be classified as a ROFI (Region of Freshwater Influence) due to presence of rivers and high precipitation caused by the high karstic mountain massifs (Bellafiore et al, 2011, Campanelli et al, 2009. Phytoplankton organisms are very sensitive to changes in its environment.…”

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Drakulović¹,

Gvozdenovic²,

Joksimović³

et al. 2017

Turk. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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The distribution of toxic and potentially toxic phytoplankton species in relation to environmental factors was investigated from November 2014 to April 2015 in Boka Kotorska Bay, in the south -eastern part of the Adriatic Sea. The RDA analysis of environmental parameters showed that the system is mostly temperature-driven. The phytoplankton community was mainly composed of diatoms and less with dinoflagellates. Pseudo-nitzschia was the dominant diatom, present in 88.40 % of samples, with a maximum (of 1.85 × 10 5 cells/l). Among toxic dinoflagellates, frequent were Dinophysis acuminata (with frequency of 33.33%), D. fortii (with frequency of 23.19%) and Prorocentrum cordatum (with frequency of 21.74%). The RDA analysis showed that diatoms correlated slightly positively with nutrients and negative correlation was recorded with temperature and salinity. Dinoflagellates showed strong positive association, indicating a positive correlation with oxygen concentration, chl a, SiO4 -and NO3 -concentrations and negative correlation with temperature and salinity.

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Joksimović³

et al. 2017

Turk. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci.

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Limited population genetic variation but pronounced seascape genetic structuring in populations of the Mediterranean mussel (Mytilus galloprovincialis) from the eastern Adriatic Sea

Hamilton

Piria

Gavrilović

et al. 2023

Ecology and Evolution

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Population genetic analysis of variation at five neutral microsatellite loci for Mediterranean mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) from 18 sites along the eastern Adriatic Sea revealed little or no spatial variation. In contrast, seascape genetics analysis revealed a pronounced locus-specific gradient in allelic and genotypic frequencies across the study region. At a sixth locus, MGE7, the frequencies of two alleles, MGE7 243 and MGE7 249 , were strongly associated, negatively and positively, respectively, with a single environmental variable -minimum salinity (minSAL). The frequency of the MGE7 243/243 homozygous genotype was strongly negatively associated with minSAL, whereas the frequencies of the MGE7 246/249 and the MGE7 249/249 genotypes were strongly positively correlated with minSAL. Interpretation of these pronounced gradients is confounded by the fact that minSAL and another environmental variable, maximum sea surface temperature (maxSST), are highly correlated (R = −.911) and are therefore not necessarily acting independently. BLAST searches of the MGE7 locus against M. galloprovincialis whole genome shotgun sequence returned an alignment with contig mg10_S01094 (accession UYJE01010330.1) and 7 predicted M. galloprovincialis proteins VDI82194.1 -VDI82200.1. Conserved domain searches revealed a similar structure to the transcriptional regulator Msx2-interacting protein.The BLASTp search also returned significant alignments to Msx2-interacting proteins in Mytilus coruscus, Crassostrea virginica, and Haliotis rubra. The existence of the MGE7 gradient highlights the role that environmental variation may play in retarding gene flow among wild M. galloprovincialis populations, and also how the success of collection of young mussels (spat) from one site and their transfer to another site (the farm) may be influenced by a single factor such as minSAL or maxSST on a localized scale.

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