Biodiversity in Enclosed Seas and Artificial Marine Habitats: Proceedings of the 39th European Marine Biology Symposium, held in Genoa, Italy, 21-24 July 2004 (Developments in Hydrobiology)

Front Matter....Pages i-5
Biodiversity issues for the forthcoming tropical Mediterranean Sea....Pages 7-21
Biodiversity in the Black Sea: effects of climate and anthropogenic factors....Pages 23-33
Measuring change of Mediterranean coastal biodiversity: diachronic mapping of the meadow of the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa (Ucria) Ascherson in the Gulf of Tigullio (Ligurian Sea, NW Mediterranean)....Pages 35-41
Biodiversity evaluation of the macroalgal flora of the Gulf of Trieste (Northern Adriatic Sea) using taxonomic distinctness indices....Pages 43-56
Biodiversity of settled material in a sediment trap in the Gulf of Trieste (northern Adriatic Sea)....Pages 57-75
Phylogeography of the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck) (Echinodermata:Echinoidea): first insights from the South Tyrrhenian Sea....Pages 77-84
Community structure of the macroinfauna inhabiting tidal flats characterized by the presence of different species of burrowing bivalves in Southern Chile....Pages 85-96
Response of zoobenthic communities to changing eutrophication in the northern Baltic Sea....Pages 97-108
Diversity of juvenile fish assemblages in the pelagic waters of Lebanon (eastern Mediterranean)....Pages 109-115
Stability of spatial pattern of fish species diversity in the Strait of Sicily (central Mediterranean)....Pages 117-124
Recurrent high-biomass blooms of Alexandrium taylorii (Dinophyceae), a HAB species expanding in the Mediterranean....Pages 125-133
Lack of epifaunal response to the application of salt for managing the noxious green alga Caulerpa taxifolia in a coastal lake....Pages 135-142
Artificial habitats and the restoration of degraded marine ecosystems and fisheries....Pages 143-155
Fish assemblages on sunken vessels and natural reefs in southeast Florida, USA....Pages 157-171
Effect of depth and reef structure on early macrobenthic communities of the Algarve artificial reefs (southern Portugal)....Pages 173-180
Stakeholder perceptions regarding the environmental and socio-economic impacts of the Algarve artificial reefs....Pages 181-191
History, ecology and trends for artificial reefs of the Ligurian sea, Italy....Pages 193-217
Settlement and early survival of red coral on artificial substrates in different geographic areas: some clues for demography and restoration....Pages 219-224
A fourteen-year overview of the fish assemblages and yield of the two oldest Algarve artificial reefs (southern Portugal)....Pages 225-231
Long-term changes in a benthic assemblage associated with artificial reefs....Pages 233-240
Development of a transplantation technique of Cystoseira amentacea var. stricta and Cystoseira compressa ....Pages 241-244
Gametogenesis and maturity stages scale of Raja asterias Delaroche, 1809 (Chondrichthyes, Raijdae) from the South Ligurian Sea....Pages 245-254
Feeding strategy of the sacoglossan opisthobranch Oxynoe olivacea on the tropical green alga Caulerpa taxifolia ....Pages 255-257
Species-specific probe, based on 18S rDNA sequence, could be used for identification of the mucilage producer microalga Gonyaulax fragilis (Dinophyta)....Pages 259-263
Assemblages in a submarine canyon: influence of depth and time....Pages 265-271