Giulia Vitale

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

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Beatrice Rosso

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Fabiana Corami

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Ingeborg G. Hallanger

Norwegian Polar Institute

Marta Pujol

Institut de Ciències del Mar

Andrea Gambaro

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

I. Pancotti

Marche Polytechnic University

Lucio Litti

University of Padua

Carlo Barbante

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

P. Beneduce

Deborah Bassotto

National Research Council

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Institute for the Dynamics of Environmental Processes

Norwegian Polar Institute

Institut de Ciències del Mar

Ca' Foscari University of Venice

Marche Polytechnic University

Sapienza University of Rome

National Academies of Sciences, Engineering, and Medicine

Institute of Structure of Matter

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Anthropogenic particles in European Arctic marine environments: impacts from the world's northernmost settlement at 78° N

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2022)

Carolin Philipp F. Collard Beatrice Rosso Giulia Vitale Fabiana Corami

Settlement (finance)

10.5281/zenodo.7216659

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Amphipods as a potential bioindicator of microplastic pollution: occurrence of small microplastics (5-100 µm), additives and plasticizers in Monocorophium insidiosum

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2022)

Fabiana Corami Beatrice Rosso Giulia Vitale Marco Picone Andrea Gambaro

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Plasticizer

10.5281/zenodo.7216778

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Small Microplastics: A yet Unknown Threat in the Svalbard (Norway) Region

Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (2023)

Gabriella Caruso Valentina Iannilli Giulia Vitale Massimiliano Vardè Marco Oliverio

The Arctic Ocean is undergoing several transformations because of global climate change. Small microplastics (SMPs) or nanoplastics (NPs) carried by marine aerosols may settle in the land ice and be released to the waters, produced following its melting. As sea ice extent reduces and shipping and fishing activities increase, microplastics (MPs) may enter the region following ocean and maritime transports, with implications on Arctic biota, human health, and socioeconomic issues related to the exploitation of marine resources. First analyses on amphipods collected in Ny-Ålesund confirmed the presence of SMPs. Nevertheless, the threat posed by SMPs/NPs to polar biota and regional human health is not fully understood. This article addresses this issue and the need for organisms as potential bioindicators of plastic pollution, which is currently being carried out in the Svalbard region under the framework of the MICROTRACER project funded by the Italian Arctic Research Program (PRA, Call 2021). The outputs of this research are expected to contribute to deepening the current knowledge of SMPs in Svalbard, providing new insights on their occurrence, distribution, and transfer through the marine trophic web, to realize effective control and regulatory framework measures to implement an integrated multidisciplinary approach for monitoring and to reduce MPs pollution in this fragile polar environment.

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Plastic pollution

10.3390/jmse11122330

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Vertical distribution and transport of textile microfibers (MFs) in the Mediterranean water column

Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) (2022)

Andrea Paluselli Giuseppe Suaria Marta Musso Deborah Bassotto Giulia Vitale

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Textile

10.5281/zenodo.7216873

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Tettonica quaternaria dell'area bradanico-ionica

P. Pieri Giulia Vitale P. Beneduce C. Doglioni Salvatore Gallicchio

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Foraminiferal biodiversity associated with cold-water coral carbonate mounds and open slope of SE Rockall Bank (Irish continental margin—NE Atlantic)

Deep Sea Research Part I Oceanographic Research Papers (2011)

Caterina Morigi Anna Sabbatini Giulia Vitale I. Pancotti Andrew J. Gooday

Continental Margin

10.1016/j.dsr.2011.10.004

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Characterizing the Profile of Recreational Fishers Who Share Their Catches on Social Media

Frontiers in Marine Science (2021)

Giulia Vitale Arnau L. Dedeu Marta Pujol Valerio Sbragaglia

Social media may provide information for monitoring recreational fisheries, but several caveats prevent operationalization. Specifically, the fraction and profile of recreational fishers sharing their catches is not known. Our aim was to advance the monitoring capacities of recreational fishing using social media data. We collected data with onsite (face-to-face) survey and online (emails) questionnaires to characterize marine recreational fishers sharing catches on digital platforms (“sharers”) along with other demographic or fishing information. In the online survey we found that 38% of recreational fishers share their catches using digital platforms (including the private messaging platform WhatsApp), but such proportion dropped to 12% when considering only public or semi-public social media (Instagram was the most commonly used platform, followed by Facebook, YouTube, and Twitter). A similar pattern was found with the online questionnaire where sharers represented 37% of recreational fishers (including WhatsApp), while such proportion dropped to 21% when considering only public or semi-public social media. In general, sharers were more avid (24 and 35 yearly fishing trips for onsite and online survey, respectively) compared to non-sharers (18 and 31 yearly fishing trips). Sharers also spent more money on each fishing trip (on average 26 and 31 euro for onsite and online survey, respectively) than non-sharers (on average 21 and 28 euro for onsite and online survey, respectively), but they had similar chances of catching something. However, for fishers with catches, the harvest per unit effort of sharers was higher than that of non-sharers (0.4 and 0.5 kg/h with respect to 0.3 and 0.4 kg/h, for onsite and online survey, respectively). Moreover, recreational fishers that caught trophy, iconic, or emblematic species were more inclined to share their catches. This study represents an important advancement for integrating social media data into the monitoring of recreational fishing.

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10.3389/fmars.2021.768047

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