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Vindicating the biological and socioeconomic importance of coastal lagoons and ...
Marcos, Concepcion; Gamito, Sofia; Umgiesser, Georg; Perez-Ruzafa, AngelThe European Congress on Coastal Lagoons celebrates this year 2018 its fifteen years of existence. Its first edition, in November 2003 in Ferrara (Italy), under the slogan “The Influence of River Basin-Coastal Zone Interactions”, opened a series of actions and opportunities that have been consolidated in the biannual celebration of this meeting, the creation of the Euro-Mediterranean Federation on Coastal Lagoo...
Assessing, quantifying and valuing the ecosystem services of coastal lagoons
Newton, Alice; Brito, Ana C.; Icely, John; Derolez, Valerie; Clara, Ines; Angus, Stewart; Schernewski, Gerald; Inacio, Miguel; Lillebo, Ana I.The natural conservation of coastal lagoons is important not only for their ecological importance, but also because of the valuable ecosystem services they provide for human welfare and wellbeing. Coastal lagoons are shallow semi-enclosed systems that support important habitats such as wetlands, mangroves, salt-marshes and seagrass meadows, as well as a rich biodiversity. Coastal lagoons are also complex social...
Small-scale genetic structure of Cerastoderma glaucum in a lagoonal environment...
Vergara-Chen, Carlos; Gonzalez-Wangueemert, Mercedes; Marcos, Concepcion; Perez-Ruzafa, AngelEnvironmental heterogeneity in coastal lagoons is expected to facilitate local adaptation in response to different ecological conditions, causing significant genetic structuring within lagoon populations at a small scale and also differentiation between lagoons. However, these patterns and processes of genetic structuring are still poorly understood. The aims of our study were (1) to seek genetic structure at a...
Genetic diversity and connectivity remain high in Holothuria polii (Delle Chiaj...
Vergara-Chen, Carlos; Gonzalez-Wangueemert, Mercedes; Marcos, Concepcion; Perez-Ruzafa, AngelCoastal lagoons represent habitats with widely heterogeneous environmental conditions, particularly as regards salinity and temperature,which fluctuate in both space and time. These characteristics suggest that physical and ecological factors could contribute to the genetic divergence among populations occurring in coastal lagoon and opencoast environments. This study investigates the genetic structure of Holot...
Phosphoglucose isomerase variability of Cerastoderma glaucum as a model for tes...
Gonzalez-Wangueemert, Mercedes; Canovas, Fernando; Marcos, Concepcion; Perez-Ruzafa, AngelExtreme conditions of coastal lagoons could directly modify the genetic patterns of species. The aim of this work was to investigate the influence of environmental conditions and small scale dispersal patterns on the phosphoglucose isomerase (PGI*) genetic variability of Cerastoderma glaucum from the Mar Menor coastal lagoon. For this purpose, 284 cockles were collected around the perimeter of the lagoon. Verti...