| In one of the last issues of Marine
Pollution Bullettin - n. 54 - you will find a paper by Marina Monti,
Marco Minocci, Alfred
Beran and Ljiljana Ivesa about "First record of Ostreopsis cfr. ovata on macroalgae
in the Northern Adriatic Sea." |
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| A
poster presented BENTOX-NET activities and
participants at the Congress of the Italian Society of Ecology, held in
Ancona (September
17-20, 2007). |
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| The
Municipality of Bagheria (Sicily, Italy) issued a web
page containing useful documents about Ostreopsis.
Among those documents a presentation by Rossella Barone
("Amplificazione
dei bloom microalgali: il caso Ostreopsis" - in Italian) and
another one by Roberto Poletti ("Lo
stato delle conoscenze di alcune biotossine prodotte da microalghe
bentoniche lungo le coste italiane" - in Italian). |
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| The
distribution of Ostreopsis along the Italian coastline in
summer 2007, updated in July, has been reported by
Institutions
that participate in BENTOX-NET. Data are arranged into an Excel spreadsheet
(in Italian). |
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| Issue #33 of the Harmful Algae News newsletter (PDF, about 3,3 Mb),
is available at the Web site The IOC
Harmful
Algal Bloom Programme.
It contains a paper by Rossella
Barone ("Behavioural
trait of Ostreopsis
ovata (Dinophyceae)
in Mediterranean rock pools:
the spider’s strategy") and another one by Cecilia Totti
et al. ("Bloom
of Ostreopsis ovata
on the Conero Riviera (NW Adriatic Sea)"). |
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The
Regional Envrionmental Protection Agengy of Apulia, in collaboration
with the Italian Society of Marine Biology and the University of Bari,
organized a "Corso
teorico-pratico
sull'insorgenza di problematiche ambientali e sanitarie relative alle
fioriture di Ostreopsis
spp." (in Italian).
The course was held at the University of Bari (June 14-15, 2007). A PDF
brochure can be downloaded by clicking
here or on its mini-image on the right (about 2.7
Mb, in Italian).
During the course Giorgio
Socal
presented BENTOX-NET
and Cecilia Totti
discussed a proposal about monitoring
methods (in Italian). |
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Giorgio
Socal and BENTOX-NET presented a poster at the 38th
Congress of the Italian Society of Marine Biolgy, held
in Santa Margherita Ligure
(May 28 - June 2, 2007). The poster explained problems addresses
by BENTOX-NET as well as its goals and participants.
The PDF version of the poster can be downloaded by clicking here or on its
min-image on the right (about 280 kb, in
Italian). |
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| The
Italian Society of Toxicology and the University of Trieste are
organizing an International Symposium on Algal Toxins that will be held
in Trieste (27-29 May, 2007). The first
call as well
as a locandina
brochure (in English) are available for downloading. |
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A
presentation about BENTOX-NET can be found at page 11 and 12
in the issue #32 of the Harmful Algae News newsletter (PDF, about 6,5
Mb),
which isa available at web site of The IOC
Harmful
Algal Bloom Programme.
A reprint is also
available (PDF, about 500 kb). |
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