MEDITERRANEAN SEA: ECOSYSTEMS, ECONOMIC IMPORTANCE AND ENVIRONMENTAL THREATS; Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data; Contents; Preface; Chapter 1: Ecosystem Services in the Mediterranean Sea: The Need for an Economic and Business Oriented Approach; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; CONCEPTS ON ECOSYSTEM SERVICES AND ITS CLASSIFICATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES VALUATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES: A BUSINESS POLICY ORIENTED APPROACH; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 2: Marine Pollution From Shipwrecks at the Sea Bottom: A Case Study From the Mediterranean Basin; ABSTRACT
1. INTRODUCTION2. MATERIALS AND METHODS; 3. RESULTS AND DISCUSSION; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 3: Disposal of Produced Formation Water From Offshore Gas Platforms in the Mediterranean Sea: A Parametric Study on Discharge Conditions Aimed at Mitigating Risks for the Marine Environment ; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; STUDY AREA; EXPERIMENTAL MONITORING STRATEGY OF THE ADRIATIC PFW DISCHARGE; INITIAL DILUTION MODEL; FIELD DATA; RESULTS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; Chapter 4: Secchi Depth and Water Quality Control: Measurement of Sunlight Extinction; ABSTRACT; 1. INTRODUCTION
2.SUNLIGHT EXTINCTION IN WATER3. SECCHI DISK AND SUNLIGHT EXTINCTION; 4. LUZEX; 5. THREE DIFFERENT MEDITERRANEAN AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; 6. PROCEDURES; CONCLUSION; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS; REFERENCES; Chapter 5: An Environmental Monitoring Plan for the Construction and Operation of a Marine Terminal for Regasifying Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) in the North Adriatic Sea; ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; MAIN POSSIBLE IMPACTS OF TERMINAL AND PIPELINE TRANSFERRING GAS TO THE LAND; ADRIATIC LNG TERMINAL AND ITS PIPELINE MONITORING (ALNGM); MATRIX SAMPLING; SAMPLING STRATEGY; ANALYSES; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES
Chapter 6: Bioactive Peptides from the Venom of Mediterranean Cone Snail Conus Ventricosus ABSTRACT; INTRODUCTION; INTRASPECIFIC VENOM VARIABILITY; C. VENTRICOSUS CONOPEPTIDES OF THE CONTRYPHAN FAMILY; C. VENTRICOSUS CONOTOXINS; CONCLUSION; REFERENCES; INDEX
