Seasonal and year-to-year time evolution of the thermal structure, including the heat content change in the upper water column and its relationship with the surface net heat fluxes, have been studied at five locations in the central Mediterranean Sea. The study is based on temperature profiles collected during XBT surveys (eXpendable BathyThermograph) carried out on ships of opportunity, in the...

The yellow octocoral Eunicella cavolini is one of the most common gorgonians thriving in Mediterranean hard-bottom communities. However, information regarding its distribution and ecology in several parts of the Mediterranean is lacking, while population trends and conservation status remain largely unknown. We investigated 19 populations of E. cavolini over three representative geographic regi...

The Collared Pratincole Glareola pratincola has a large and fragmented breeding distribution in the Palearctic. In Italy it is an uncommon migrant breeder sites are very patchily distributed irregularly used, with most frequent occurrences N Adriatic, Apulia, Campania, Sardinia Sicily. We report new site for species along northern Adriatic coastline Marano Grado Lagoon (Friuli Venezia Giulia re...

In the Mediterranean, green sea turtle (Chelonia mydas) has exhibited increase in number of nests over past two decades. While Eastern Mediterranean is recognized as a high use area, scarce observations turtles Adriatic Sea suggested only low-level utilization this area. This study presents new findings and analyses importance region for species. combination with published records, we present 7...

In this study the impact of Adriatic-Ionian Bimodal Oscillating System (BiOS) on interannual to decadal variability Adriatic Sea thermohaline circulation is quantified during 1987–2017 period with numerical results and Coast (AdriSC) historical kilometer-scale climate simulation. The time series associated first five Empirical Orthogonal Functions (EOFs) computed from salinity, temperature curr...

background: all-trans retinol is a biological antioxidantscavenging the ros in the cell culture. objectives: this studywas conducted to investigate the effect of all-trans retinol infertilization and culture medium on mouse embryo's developmentalcompetence. methods: this study was designed into twoexperiments. in the first experiment, in vitro mature oocytes wereco-cultured with sperm in fertil...

BACKGROUND: All-trans retinol is a biological antioxidantscavenging the ROS in the cell culture. OBJECTIVES: This studywas conducted to investigate the effect of all-trans retinol infertilization and culture medium on mouse embryo's developmentalcompetence. METHODS: This study was designed into twoexperiments. In the first experiment, in vitro mature oocytes wereco-cultured with sperm in fertil...

The Mediterranean stony coral Cladocora caespitosa (Linnaeus, 1767) is a well-known habitat builder, and as such hosts diversified faunal assemblage. Although polychaetes are one of the most abundant diverse macrobenthic groups associated with C. colonies, our knowledge their ecological features in this association still limited. aim paper was to gather compare comprehensive data available on A...