Aiello, Giuseppe

Barra, Diana

De Bonis, Salvatore

Guida, Marco

Parisi, Roberta

Toscanesi, Maria

Trifuoggi, Marco

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15Giuseppe Aiello1, DiAnA BArrA1, sAlvAtore De Bonis1, MArco GuiDA2, roBertA pArisi1, MAriA toscAnesi3, MArco trifuoGGi11Dipartimento di Scienze della Terra, Università di Napoli Federico II, L.go San Marcellino, 10 - 80138 Napoli, Italia; 2Dipartimento delle Scienze Biologiche, Università di Napoli Federico II, via Mezzocannone, 8- 16 - 80134 Napoli, Italia; 3Dipartimento di Chimica “Paolo Corradini”, Università di Napoli Federico II, Via Cintia, 21 - 80126 Napoli, ItaliaCampania is the Italian region displaying the highest percentage of heavy polluted coastal areas: 80 kilometres of coastlines, on a total of  512, have been seriously degraded by pollution and water quality parameters are above the standard for waters suitable for bathing and other economic activities. A management and restora-tion policy in relation to polluted areas has to be based on analysis, either chemical or microbiological, which concern the environmental “health” from the ecological point of view, and particularly the rich biodiversity of the area at stake.Multidisciplinary approach to evaluate  the environmental health Flegrea coast16The Domitio-Flegrea area, for its anthropic context, results to be highly	significant	for	monitoring	a	marked	environmental	deterioration	and change in the marine biotic communities structure.A multidisciplinary approach is here used in order to evaluate the quality of Pozzuoli coastline waters by combining chemical and eco-toxicological analysis of the sediments to the systematic and ecological study to ostracod and benthic foraminifer assemblages. The analysis of both systematic groups provides data necessary to complete the wa-ter resources cognitive framework. The eco-toxicological analyses have been performed using organisms pertaining to different taxa, in order to allow a wide-ranging and more accurate evaluation of levels of pollution. The selected biomarkers are: Vibrio fischeri (bioluminescent Bacteria), Dunaliella tertiolecta (Clorophyta, unicellular green algae) and Artemia salina (Crustacea). Chemical analysis measured the concentration of PAHs (Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons) by SPE extraction and subse-quent HPLC analysis.The results allow to state that the evaluation of a marine ecosystem health has to consider the study on coastal sediments, and the different approaches here described provide more complete data on effects of human activities on natural systems.

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