Common database on artificial habitat: possibility of expanding an Italian website to Mediterranean and Black Sea

The Italian "Artificial Habitat Group" founded in 2009 by several Researchers involved in artificial habitat studies developed a web site (www.habitatartificiali.it) having the aim of making available useful information such as: unambiguous definition of artificial habitats, current grey and scientific literature, interactive map of ARs in Italy, news about ARs etc. It also offers a list of involved Researchers, with their addresses and field of interest. In order to facilitate exchange of information and cooperation among countries and scientists at international level, it would be interesting to integrate this web site with information coming from Mediterranean and Black Sea, making some improvements. Among these, for example, the possibility to know which ARs are deployed on a certain type of sediment, to obtain a list of ARs built with a particular type of modules, to insert images, and to create a link with pdf version of papers listed in the bibliography session, etc.