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SUBMITTER: Madricardo F
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6488697 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Madricardo Fantina F Foglini Federica F Campiani Elisabetta E Grande Valentina V Catenacci Elena E Petrizzo Antonio A Kruss Aleksandra A Toso Carlotta C Trincardi Fabio F
Scientific reports 20190429 1
Coastal systems are among the most studied, most vulnerable, and economically most important ecosystems on Earth; nevertheless, little attention has been paid, so far, to the consequences of human activities on the shallow sea-floor of these environments. Here, we present a quantitative assessment of the effects of human actions on the floor of the tidal channels from the Venice Lagoon using 2500 kilometres of full coverage multibeam bathymetric mapping. Such extended dataset provides unpreceden ...[more]