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Title: | Impact of boat anchoring on the Mediterranean endemic bivalve Pinna nobilis : an experimental approach |
Authors: | Morell Lujan-Williams, Carlos Banach-Esteve, Galia Vazquez-Luis, Maite Borg, Joseph A. Alvarez, Elvira Deudero, Salud |
Keywords: | Coastal zone management -- Mediterranean Sea Environmental impact analysis Bivalves -- Mediterranean Sea Posidonia oceanica -- Mediterranean Sea |
Issue Date: | 2013 |
Publisher: | La Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Méditerranée |
Citation: | Morell Lujan-Williams, C., Banach-Esteve, G., Vazquez-Luis, M., Borg, J. A., Alvarez, E., & Deudero, S. (2013). Impact of boat anchoring on the Mediterranean endemic bivalve Pinna nobilis : an experimental approach - Rapport du Congrès de la Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Méditerranée 40. Monaco: La Commission Internationale pour l'Exploration Scientifique de la Mer Méditerranée. 802. |
Abstract: | The impact of boat anchoring on the Mediterranean endemic bivalve Pinna nobilis Linnaeus (1758) was assessed experimentally in the field by installing non-biological mimic units of the bivalve in the islands of Mallorca and Malta. In each of these two Mediterranean localities, two study areas having different levels of boat anchoring activities: ‘control’ (no anchoring allowed) and ‘impacted’ (anchoring allowed), were used for the field experiment. A significant number of P. nobilis mimic bivalves were affected by boat anchoring in the impacted areas; the impact was 3 times higher in impacted areas compared to control areas. Boat anchoring also had an adverse impact on Posidonia oceanica meadows, since seagrass cover was lower in the impacted areas. |
URI: | https://www.um.edu.mt/library/oar//handle/123456789/18014 |
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