Applicazione del LOICZmodello alla Sacca di Goro laguna

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  LaguNet OBSERVATIONAL NETWORK OF ITALIAN
LAGOONS   A Network in support of the IGBP core
programme Land Ocean Interaction in the Coastal
Zone (LOICZ) and a contribution to the
implementation of the Water Framework Directive
http//www.dsa.unipr.it/lagunet
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The idea of a network of coastal lagoons was born
in Athens (February 2001) during the LOICZ
workshop on C, N and P budgets in the
Mediterranean and Black seas (LOICZ Report
Studies 19, 2001). The decision to organise the
Italian Network (LaguNet) was taken by a group of
lagoon scientists Viaroli, Giordani, Murray,
Zaldivar, Barbanti and Guerzoni

• Nowadays LaguNet is an informal scientific
  observational network of 32 Italian research
  groups, with ca. 150 scientists and students
  which aims
• to support and encourage co-operation of research
  groups studying lagoons, wetlands and salt mash
  systems situated along the Italian coast
• to promote an agreed common approach to
  biogeochemical, ecological and bio-economical
  modelling of these transitional ecosystems that
  can provide support to management or policy
  applications
• to develop a capacity building

http//www.dsa.unipr.it/lagunet
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• LaguNet is self-sustained and activity (project)/
  based
• Short term objective
• to apply the LOICZ Biogeochemical Model to
  coastal lagoons
• Long term objectives
• to contribute to the WFD transitional waters in
  Southern Europe
• to contribute to the Coastal Module of the Global
  Terrestrial Observing System (C-GTOS)
• to developing cooperation and projects at
  national and European level in the Mediterranean
  region

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Geographical distribution of the 32 research
groups collaborating in LaguNet
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Geographical distribution of the 20 LaguNet sites
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1st LaguNet activities April 2002-October
2003 Leaders G. Giordani, P. Viaroli, N. Murray,
J.M. Zaldivar Evaluation of fluxes and derived
ecosystem functions in the transition zones along
the Italian coast with the LOICZ biogeochemical
model approach (LOICZ-BM)

• LOICZ-BM
• Ability to work with secondary data
• Minimal data requirements
• Widely applicable, uniform methodology
• Sufficiently Robust
• Informative about processes of CNP fluxes

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Giordani G., P. Viaroli, D. P. Swaney, C. N.
Murray, J. M. Zaldivar and J. J. Marshall
Crossland (eds), 2005. Nutrient fluxes in
transition zones of the Italian Coast. LOICZ
REPORTS STUDIES No. 28. http//www.dsa.unipr.it
/lagunet
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2nd LaguNet Activity coastal lagoon
typology Basset A., L.Sabetta, A. Fonnesu, D.
Mouillot, T. Do Chi, P. Viaroli, G. Giordani S.
Reizopoulou, M. Abbiati, G. C. Carrada, 2006.
Typology in Mediterranean transitional waters
new challenges and perspectives. Aquatic
Conservation (in press) Tagliapietra D., A.V.
Ghirardini, 2006. Some notes about Italian
Coastal Lagoon typology in the light of WFD.
Aquatic Conservation (in press)
Climate Morphometry Tidal range Freshwater
influence Geology Biogeochemistry
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3rd LaguNet Activity BenthOC Investigation of
relationships between macrobenthos communities
and sedimentary organic matter content in
transitional waters soft sediments along the
Italian coast to develop benthic indicators of
environmental quality (leaders P. Magni D.
Tagliapietra)
modified from Pearson Rosemberg (1978), Hyland
et al. (2000), de Wit et al. (2001) Viaroli et
al. (2004)

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• 2006- 2007
• 4th activity implementation of C-GTOS
• 5th activity revision/census of macroalghe and
  phanerogams of the Italian lagoon
• Early warning activities
• Macroalgal blooms
• Avian disease (?)

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• MAIN ACTIVITIES OF LAGUNET
• 15-16 April 2002, Venice Workshop for launching
  the LaguNet Network. Presentation of the 1st
  LaguNet activity on LOICZ biogeochemical budgets
  in 22 Italian coastal lagoons
• October 2003-October 2004 Participation in the
  implementation of the Coastal Module of the
  Global Terrestrial Observing System (GTOS)
  (www.fao.org/gtos)
• 11 November 2003, Ferrara LaguNet Meeting on
  Typology and monitoring of transistional waters
  with respect to the WFD
• February 2004. Presentation of the second LaguNet
  activity with a Web Forum on Coastal lagoon
  typology
• 17-19 June 2004, Napoli. Workshop of LaguNet on
  major challenges to bridge basic ecology to
  applications publication of view points on
  coastal typology in Aquatic Conservation
  Freshwater and Marine Ecosystems
• 8-9 October 2004, International Marine Center
  (Oristano Italy), IOC-UNESCO Workshop on
  Indicators of Stress in the Marine Benthos .
  Launch of the 3rd LaguNet activity on
  Sedimentary organic matter and benthic
  communities in the Italian Coastal lagoons
• February 2005 LaguNet is included as a regional
  project in the LOICZ programme (http//www.loicz.o
  rg/loicz_nl/de4487499c8cff52a6f80cb542b90481.php)
• 26-28 June 2005, partecipation in the LOICZ II
  Inaugural Open Science Meeting, Egmond am Zee,
  Netherlands, 27-29 June 2005
• 4-9 october 2005, co-organizaztion of the 2nd
  conference on coastal lagoons (Klaipeda)
• 20 december 2005, preliminary meeting of the
  C-GTOS initiative (Rome)
• 20 January 2006, meeting for starting an official
  association (Rome)