The Italian government have installed the first offshore liquefied natural gas (LNG) terminal that stores and re-gasifies liquefied natural gas due to the increasing of energy demand. The LGN terminal was positioned in the North Adriatic Sea and ISPRA, had monitored the installation and exercise activities for about 10 years; the monitoring program was executed in three phases: ante operam, during terminal installation and during terminal exercise. The monitoring process concerned different matrices: water, sediments, and biota; in this study, the results carried out by the macrozoobenthic community analysis, are shown. These communities are recognized as an important tool to evaluate the environmental conditions, since they live in close contact with the seabed, etc. Our study was on two groups of macrozoobenthic crustacea: Amphipoda and Cumacea, providing information about the effect due to the first LGN terminal on this portion of benthic ecosystem. In the last years other LNG terminals were installed in the Italian Sea, the results of this study will be used to improve the planning sampling survey to understand the building effect on benthic communities.
ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy - ORCID: 0009-0004-8946-3112
ISPRA - Italian Institute for Environmental Protection and Research, Italy - ORCID: 0000-0003-0469-6765
Chapter Title
The Amphipoda and Cumacea assemblage response to LNG terminal installation in Adriatic Sea (Mediterranean Sea)
Authors
Veronica Marusso, Benedetta Trabucco
Language
Italian
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6.22
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Publication Year
2024
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Book Title
Tenth International Symposium Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques
Book Subtitle
Livorno (Italy) 11th-13th June 2024
Editors
Laura Bonora, Marcantonio Catelani, Matteo De Vincenzi, Giorgio Matteucci
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Publication Year
2024
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© 2024 Author(s)
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Publisher Name
Firenze University Press
DOI
10.36253/979-12-215-0556-6
eISBN (pdf)
979-12-215-0556-6
eISBN (xml)
979-12-215-0557-3
Series Title
Monitoring of Mediterranean Coastal Areas: Problems and Measurement Techniques
Series E-ISSN
2975-0288