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Watch the video and enjoy the video shootings we realised in Iceland during the 2nd Marine SABRES General Assembly, in the framework of video documentary and WebTv activities. One of the research sites of the Marine SABRES project is the Arctic Northeast Atlantic, encompassing Iceland, Greenland and Faroes. Here researchers will examine the effects of climate change and changing oceanographic conditions on fisheries, and concrete actions will be suggested for increasing food provisioning ecosystem services (ES), by sustainably caught fisheries and the sustainable development of aquaculture.  https://www.lifewatching.tv/tv-show/marine-sabres/

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Ailanthus altissima, the Tree of Heaven or Varnish Tree, is a deciduous tree native to northeast and central China first introduced in Europe in the eighteenth century because of its elegant leaves. Widely known to horticulturalists as the Tree of Hell, it’s notorious for wiping out native species with toxins it excretes in the soil, and the pungent smell of its flowers, and it’s now considered one of the worst invasive plant species in Europe.

Over the last few decades, Ailanthus altissima has quickly spread in the Alta Murgia National Park (southern Italy) which is mostly characterised by dry grassland and pseudo-steppe, wide-open spaces with low vegetation, which are very vulnerable to invasion. Ailanthus altissima causes serious direct and indirect damages to ecosystems, replacing and altering communities that have great conservation value, producing severe ecological, environmental and economic effects, and causing natural habitat loss and degradation. A team at the Italian National Research Council (CNR) started applying satellite remote sensing research methods to detect the distribution of the species, with a view to modelling and predicting future scenarios of diffusion. More information here

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This video follows researchers at the University of Salento as they track the invasive Atlantic Blue Crab in the Acquatina Lagoon off the Puglian coast in Italy. The Atlantic Blue Crab is one of the focus species in the Crustaceans Validation Case of the LifeWatch ERIC Internal Joint Initiative. For more details: https://www.lifewatch.eu/internal-joint-initiative/