Chapter Monitoring and assessment of the ecological status of coralligenous cliffs by a standardized protocol

Coralligenous reefs are the main biogenic construction of the Mediterranean Sea and one of the most sensitive habitats for which European legislation requires monitoring and quality assessment plans. The heterogeneity of reefs however requires the use of standardized habitat-specific methods allowin...

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author Gennaro, Paola
piazzi, luigi
cecchi, enrico
Morri, Carla
Bianchi, Carlo Nike
MONTEFALCONE, MONICA
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Gennaro, Paola
MONTEFALCONE, MONICA
Morri, Carla
cecchi, enrico
piazzi, luigi
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piazzi, luigi
cecchi, enrico
Morri, Carla
Bianchi, Carlo Nike
MONTEFALCONE, MONICA
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description Coralligenous reefs are the main biogenic construction of the Mediterranean Sea and one of the most sensitive habitats for which European legislation requires monitoring and quality assessment plans. The heterogeneity of reefs however requires the use of standardized habitat-specific methods allowing comparability of data over wide scale. Coralligenous cliffs are the reef type most widespread in shallow waters and are monitored by several ecological indices based on different approaches. This contribution summarizes the results of multi-year studies carried out on wide spatial scale with the aim of comparing and integrating the different methods into a single standardized sampling and data collection protocol. Downstream of a literature review, the STAndaRdized coralligenous evaluation procedure (STAR) was proposed and tested on subregion scale under different human pressures. Results confirmed the validity of descriptors chosen and the effectiveness of the protocol in assessing the ecological quality of coralligenous cliffs. STAR represents the first methodological guidelines proposed for the evaluation of the ecological quality of coralligenous cliffs in the Mediterranean Sea
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spelling doab-20.500.12854ir-1633732025-08-02T05:04:59Z Chapter Monitoring and assessment of the ecological status of coralligenous cliffs by a standardized protocol Gennaro, Paola piazzi, luigi cecchi, enrico Morri, Carla Bianchi, Carlo Nike MONTEFALCONE, MONICA Biogenic construction Ecological quality Evaluation Guidelines Mediterranean Sea Coralligenous reefs are the main biogenic construction of the Mediterranean Sea and one of the most sensitive habitats for which European legislation requires monitoring and quality assessment plans. The heterogeneity of reefs however requires the use of standardized habitat-specific methods allowing comparability of data over wide scale. Coralligenous cliffs are the reef type most widespread in shallow waters and are monitored by several ecological indices based on different approaches. This contribution summarizes the results of multi-year studies carried out on wide spatial scale with the aim of comparing and integrating the different methods into a single standardized sampling and data collection protocol. Downstream of a literature review, the STAndaRdized coralligenous evaluation procedure (STAR) was proposed and tested on subregion scale under different human pressures. Results confirmed the validity of descriptors chosen and the effectiveness of the protocol in assessing the ecological quality of coralligenous cliffs. STAR represents the first methodological guidelines proposed for the evaluation of the ecological quality of coralligenous cliffs in the Mediterranean Sea 2025-08-02T05:04:58Z 2025-08-02T05:04:58Z 2025-08-01T15:57:38Z 2024 chapter ONIX_20250801T173835_9791221505566_274 2975-0288 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/104824 9791221505566 https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/163373 eng Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques open access image/jpeg Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 International https://library.oapen.org/bitstream/20.500.12657/104824/1/43665.pdf Firenze University Press 10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6.20 10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6.20 2ec4474d-93b1-4cfa-b313-9c6019b51b1a 9791221505566 12 Florence open access
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Ecological quality
Evaluation
Guidelines
Mediterranean Sea
Gennaro, Paola
piazzi, luigi
cecchi, enrico
Morri, Carla
Bianchi, Carlo Nike
MONTEFALCONE, MONICA
Chapter Monitoring and assessment of the ecological status of coralligenous cliffs by a standardized protocol
title Chapter Monitoring and assessment of the ecological status of coralligenous cliffs by a standardized protocol
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Ecological quality
Evaluation
Guidelines
Mediterranean Sea
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Ecological quality
Evaluation
Guidelines
Mediterranean Sea
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