A yearlong seasonal survey was carried out during 2016–2017 at 26 stations representing four tidal channels of the north-western part Gulf Gabès (Tunisia). The area studied (characterized by a maximum range 2.3 m) subjected to diverse anthropogenic pressures: from phosphate industry and its metallic pollution, unauthorized bottom trawling in shallow water (known locally as ‘Kiss’), organic poll...

The Mediterranean Sea is one of the most exploited regions world’s oceans. Here industrial activities have determined either acute or long-term impacts on coastal marine ecosystems. In this study, we investigated macrofauna distribution and diversity, food-web functioning in a area facing an chemical plant abandoned ‘90s to assess benthic ecosystem health. This has been identified as Site Natio...

Personality factors such as behavioral inhibition (BI), a temperamental tendency for avoidance in the face of unfamiliar situations, have been identified as risk factors for anxiety disorders. Personality factors are generally identified through self-report inventories. However, this tendency to avoid may affect the accuracy of these self-report inventories. Previously, a computer based task wa...

This work contributes to the ongoing aiming at confirming benthic foraminifera as a biological quality element. In this study, from intertidal and transitional waters English Channel/European Atlantic coast Mediterranean Sea were assigned five ecological groups using weighted-averaging optimum with respect TOC of each species. It was however not possible assign typical salt marsh species due pr...

 Benthic invertebrates are a well-established target in environmental quality status evaluations. The AMBI (AZTI's Marine Biotic Index) was developed to determine the impacts and the quality status of soft-bottom marine benthic communities. The aim of this study was investigating multivariate pattern of benthic invertebrate community and application of AMBI (AZTI's Marine Biotic Index) for dete...

The expected bioremediation effect, driven by the conversion of an inshore mariculture plant into Integrated Multi-Trophic Aquaculture (IMTA) system, which could mitigate fish farm impact, related to accumulation organic matter on seabed, has been studied. ecological quality status was studied following a Before-After-Control-Impact (BACI) design and variation measured through M-AMBI compared w...