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- Monitoring and research activities aimed to define environmental quality criteria. The sustainable development requires integrated information on the environment regulating processes.
- Characterisation of benthic communities, physico-chemical and toxic features of marine and brackish sediments, use of biological test sto assess the toxic risk.
- Ecology of the macrozoobenthos and of several important ecosystems (Posidonia oceanica L. Delile meadows, coralligenous formations, etc.)
- Presence of heavy metals and organic contaminants in aquatic species.
- Carrying of organic and inorganic micropollutans and microorganisms by the marine aerosol.
- Atmospheric pollution monitoring through the use of lichens.
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