{"id":15756,"date":"2021-05-10T13:49:14","date_gmt":"2021-05-10T13:49:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dev.futureearthcoasts.org\/new-project-on-seagrass-recolonisation-in-mediterranean-coastal-lagoons\/"},"modified":"2022-06-16T14:23:03","modified_gmt":"2022-06-16T14:23:03","slug":"new-project-on-seagrass-recolonisation-in-mediterranean-coastal-lagoons","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.futureearthcoasts.org\/new-project-on-seagrass-recolonisation-in-mediterranean-coastal-lagoons\/","title":{"rendered":"New project on seagrass recolonisation in Mediterranean coastal lagoons"},"content":{"rendered":"<h1><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-717\" src=\"https:\/\/futureearthcoasts.s3.eu-west-2.amazonaws.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/06\/14120242\/LIFE-TRANSFER-project-logo.jpeg\" alt=\"\" width=\"400\" height=\"206\" \/><\/h1>\n<h1 class=\"documentFirstHeading\">LIFE-TRANSFER &#8211; Seagrass transplantation for transitional Ecosystem Recovery<\/h1>\n<p>A new LIFE19 NAT project has recently started with the participation of:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy &#8211; <strong>Coordinator<\/strong><\/li>\n<li>Amvrakikos gulf \u2013 Lefkada Management Agency, Greece<\/li>\n<li>Comunidad Auton\u00f3ma de la Regi\u00f3n de Murcia &#8211; Consejer\u00eda de Agua, Agricultura, Ganader\u00eda, Pesca y Medio Ambiente \u2013 Direcci\u00f3n General de Mar Menor, Spain<\/li>\n<li>Asociaci\u00f3n Empresarial Centro Tecnol\u00f3gico de la Energ\u00eda y del Medio Ambiente de la Regi\u00f3n de Murcia, Spain<\/li>\n<li>Dept.of Environmental Sciences, Inf. and Stat., University Ca&#8217; Foscari Venice, Italy<\/li>\n<li>Ente di Gestione per i Parchi e la Biodiversit\u00e0-Delta del Po, Italy<\/li>\n<li>Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Greece<\/li>\n<li>Istituto Delta Ecologia Applicata srl, Italy<\/li>\n<li>Universidad de Murcia, Spain<\/li>\n<li>Ente Parco Delta del Po Veneto, Italy<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The project aims to improve the conservation status of Natura 2000 habitat 1150 (coastal lagoons) due to seagrass regression in eight Natura 2000 sites in three Member States: Italy, Greece and Spain. The specific objectives are:<br \/>\n1. Restoring and consolidating Natura 2000 priority habitat 1150 in <strong>6 coastal lagoons<\/strong>, by transplanting submerged\u00a0phanerogams to promote ecosystem self-sustainability and restoring water circulation in one lagoon;\u00a0an area of 1000 m2 will be transplanted at each of the 6 lagoons with seagrass typical of that\u00a0biogeographic area.<br \/>\n2. Contributing to achieve a good ecological state of transitional water demonstrating the effectiveness of the proposed actions to pursue the objectives set in the (WFD 2000\/60\/EC Art. 4).<br \/>\n3. Quantifying the value of ecosystem services provided by the lagoon environments and the seagrass\u00a0meadows.<br \/>\n4. Training of future trainers in this techniques, targeting site managers\/professional not participating\u00a0to the project to ensure transferability and replicability in other sites.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal aims to trigger the process of<em> recolonisation of aquatic phanerogams<\/em> in the above mentioned lagoons <em>through the transplantation of small sods and rhizomes<\/em> of <em>Z. marina, Z. noltei, R.cirrhosa<\/em> and <em>C. nodosa<\/em>, for each lagoon the species previously present in that area, to<em> promote the natural propagation capacity through seed production and dispersion.<\/em> The intervention technique provides transplantation exclusively by hand with a reduced amount of material from donor sites, with advantages in terms of (i) environmental impact, (ii) costs and (iii) application on a larger scale. In one of the study sites, it is foreseen that the application will also help restore water circulation.<\/p>\n<p>Seagrass meadows represent nursery for fish and feeding for birds, increase the stability of the tidal flats and sequester large amounts of CO2.\u00a0Submerged phanerogams are recognised as priority for the conservation of coastal lagoons, and represent one of the most striking examples of organisms that deeply modify the biotope to be called &#8220;ecosystem engineers&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Project duration:<\/strong> 01\/12\/2020 &#8211; 30\/11\/2025<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LIFE-TRANSFER &#8211; Seagrass transplantation for transitional Ecosystem Recovery A new LIFE19 NAT project has recently started with the participation of: Universit\u00e0 degli Studi di Ferrara, Italy &#8211; Coordinator Amvrakikos gulf \u2013 Lefkada Management Agency, Greece Comunidad Auton\u00f3ma de la Regi\u00f3n de Murcia &#8211; Consejer\u00eda de Agua, Agricultura, Ganader\u00eda, Pesca y Medio Ambiente \u2013 Direcci\u00f3n General [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":15757,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[65],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15756","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-lagoons-for-life"],"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.9 - 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