Dinamica e biodiversità delle comunità microfitoplanctoniche nel Golfo di Taranto (Mar Ionio)

Two sites characterized by a gradient of anthropogenic contamination were choosen (Bosco Marziotta and Porto Cesareo) to study the microphytoplanktonic dynamics and biodiversity in the Gulf of Taranto. Our results indicate that microphytoplanktonic densities and species composition are different in the two studied sites suggesting that eutrophic conditions and contamination levels might alter the communities physiognomy.