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Impact of industrial phosphate waste discharge on the marine environment in the Gulf of Gabes (Tunisia)

Kateb, Akram El ; Stalder, Claudio ; Rüggeberg, Andres ; Neururer, Christoph ; Spangenberg, Jorge E. ; Spezzaferri, Silvia

In: PLOS ONE, 2018, vol. 13, no. 5, p. e0197731

The marine environment in the Gulf of Gabes (southern Tunisia) is severely impacted by phosphate industries. Nowadays, three localities, Sfax, Skhira and Gabes produce phosphoric acid along the coasts of this Gulf and generate a large amount of phosphogypsum as a waste product. The Gabes phosphate industry is the major cause of pollution in the Gulf because most of the waste is directly...

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In situ observations of foraminiferal bleaching in the maldives, indian ocean

Spezzaferri, Silvia ; El Kateb, Akram ; Pisapia, Chiara ; Hallock, Pamela

In: Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 2018, vol. 48, no. 1, p. 75–84

Coral reefs are threatened worldwide by a variety of natural and human-induced stressors; anomalous temperatures are presently among the most serious threats by causing extensive coral bleaching. Amphistegina spp. exhibit similar bleaching as corals in the presence of photo-oxidative stress induced by either light or temperature, especially during times of maximum solar irradiance. At 11...

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Developing Foram-AMBI for biomonitoring in the Mediterranean: Species assignments to ecological categories

Jorissen, Frans ; Nardelli, Maria Pia ; Almogi-Labin, Ahuva ; Barras, Christine ; Bergamin, Luisa ; Bicchia, Erica ; El Kateb, Akram ; Ferraro, Luciana ; Gann, Mary Mc ; Morigi, Caterina ; Romano, Elena ; Sabbatini, Anna ; Schweizer, Magali ; Spezzaferri, Silvia

In: Marine Micropaleontology, 2018, vol. 140, p. 33–45

Most environmental bio-monitoring methods using the species composition of marine faunas define the Ecological Quality Status of soft bottom ecosystems based on the relative proportions of species assigned to a limited number of ecological categories. In this study we analyse the distribution patterns of benthic foraminifera in the Mediterranean as a function of organic carbon gradients on...

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Assessing coral reef health in the North Ari Atoll (Maldives) using the FoRAM Index

Pisapia, C. ; Kateb, Akram El ; Hallock, P. ; Spezzaferri, Silvia

In: Marine Micropaleontology, 2017, vol. 133, no. Supplement C, p. 50–57

Tropical marine ecosystems are richly diverse, but are experiencing growing pressure from coastal development and tourism. Assessing the status of coral reef communities along gradients of human pressure is necessary to predict recovery capacity of reefs exposed to acute events such as mass bleaching or storm destruction. Islands in the central Maldives Archipelago, which experience three...

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Bryozoan beds in northern Italy as a shallow-water expression of environmental changes during the Oligocene isotope event 1

Jaramillo-Vogel, David ; Bover-Arnal, Telm ; Strasser, André

In: Sedimentary Geology, 2016, vol. 331, p. 148–161

Shifts in carbonate-producing biotic communities in the geological record provide evidence of past environmental changes in the neritic realm. The shallow-marine Calcare di Nago Formation exposed in the San Valentino section (northern Italy) covers the Late Eocene and Earliest Oligocene. The succession is characterized by the occurrence of light-dependent biota such as coralline algae and larger...

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Schackoinella Spina, a new benthic foraminiferal species from cold-water coral ecosystems of the alboran sea and the gulf of Cádiz

Stalder, Claudio ; Székely-Szabolcs, Flavius ; Kateb, Akram El ; Rooij, David Van ; Spezzaferri, Silvia

In: The Journal of Foraminiferal Research, 2015, vol. 45, no. 4, p. 344–353

Schackoinella spina n. sp. has been found in the eastern Alboran Sea at five different stations in water depths ranging from 258–330 m, as well as in one 532 m deep station in the Gulf of Cádiz, north-eastern Atlantic Ocean. Three stations have been sampled with a giant box core (BC) and two stations with a gravity core (GC) system. The sediments of the BCs and the GCs are characterized by...