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Dissolved organic matter distribution in the water column and sediment pore w...
Coastal lagoons are among the most productive and biodiverse systems in the world and are important sentinels of climate change. The Mar Menor is one of the largest coastal... -
Phytoplankton dynamics in the Mar Menor, a Mediterranean coastal lagoon stron...
The Mar Menor hypersaline coastal lagoon has suffered serious degradation in the last three decades attributable to nutrient pollution. In 2015, the lagoon experienced an... -
Cuantificación y análisis estadístico de contaminantes en el Mar Menor
El Mar Menor es la laguna costera hipersalina más grande de Europa. La eutrofización es el proceso de contaminación más importante de las aguas de lagos, estanques, ríos y... -
Coastalization patterns in the Mediterranean: A spatiotemporal analysis of co...
Under the current climate change scenery, coastalization, i.e. a linear-type of urban sprawl along the coastal zone, has become a key planning and policy concern at a global... -
The impact of chemical pollution on the European eel (Anguilla anguilla) from...
The European eel (Anguilla anguilla) is a critically endangered species. The impact of environmental contamination on this species has been highlighted as contributing to the... -
Rights of Nature in Europe: The Spanish Lagoon Mar Menor Becomes a Legal Person
Following a popular initiative, the Spanish Parliament granted legal personality tot he lagoonof Mar Menor and gave the right to everybody to defend the lagoon's rights in... -
La Manga del Mar Menor, el fracaso de un modelo turístico insostenible
La Manga del Mar Menor (Murcia) era un paraje virgen y de gran valor natural entre el Mar Mediterráneo y Mar Menor hasta los años 50, cuando comenzó su transformación en destino... -
A step back on the conservation of a highly threatened species: opposite sign...
The endemic species Pinna nobilis is the most endangered Mediterranean bivalve, facing nearly extinction all over the Mediterranean Sea, hosting its last reservoirs in highly... -
Coastal Lagoons: Important Ecosystems
Lagoons are highly productive coastal features that provide a range of natural services that society values. Their setting within the coastal landscape leaves them especially... -
Factors structuring microbial communities in highly impacted coastal marine s...
Coastal marine lagoons are environments highly vulnerable to anthropogenic pressures such as agriculture nutrient loading or runoff from metalliferous mining. Sediment... -
Machine Learning as a Diagnosis Tool of Groundwater Quality in Zones with Hig...
Groundwater is humanity’s freshwater pantry, constituting 97% of available freshwater. The 6th Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) of the UN Agenda 2030 promotes “Ensure... -
Proposal of the “Wastewater Use Basin” Concept as an Integrated Sewage and Ra...
Semi-arid and arid regions are characterized by their water scarcity, which leads territories to seek ways of increasing the water resources available to meet their demands... -
Proyecto BELICH: seguimiento, estudio y modelización del estado del Mar Menor
El último informe emitido data del 22 de septiembre de 2022, con los datos del programa de monitorización del IEO-CSIC, correspondiente al proyecto DMMEM. A partir del 2023,... -
Recovery of eutrophized marine ecosystems using the European flat oyster, Ost...
The development of tourism and intensification of agriculture has released large amounts of nitrogen and phosphorus into the Mar Menor coastal lagoon in South-east Spain,... -
Giro ecocéntrico en el ordenamiento jurídico español: El Mar Menor un ecosist...
El artículo trata de la novedad que supone para el derecho español el reconocimiento de los derechos de la naturaleza con la aprobación de la Ley 19/2022. Describe algunas de... -
Fish Assemblage Response to Eutrophic-Mediated Environmental Stress Events in...
In the last two decades, the extensive development of intensive irrigated agriculture around the Mar Menor coastal lagoon (SE Iberian Peninsula) has disturbed the... -
Microplásticos en sedimentos costeros y marinos del litoral de la Región de M...
El plástico es uno de los materiales más utilizados en todo el planeta debido a su versatilidad y bajo coste de producción. Sin embargo, su durabilidad y la ineficiencia en la... -
Potentially toxic element input into Mar Menor coastal lagoon (Spain) through...
Mar Menor, on the northern Mediterranean coast of Spain, is a coastal lagoon with a surface of 135 km2 , surrounded by agriculture fields and several towns, that support an... -
Copper and lead complexation by dissolved organic matter in Mar Menor coastal...
Mar Menor coastal lagoon is a shallow system with a reduced exchange with the open sea, that is affected by several anthropogenic pressures, mainly agriculture and mining. The... -
Use of the Sentinel-2 and Landsat-8 Satellites for Water Quality Monitoring: ...
During recent years, several eutrophication processes and subsequent environmental crises have occurred in Mar Menor, the largest hypersaline coastal lagoon in the Western...