Venice Lagoon

Giordani Soika, A., Perin, G. The pollution of the Venice lagoon study of chemical changes and population variations in the lagoon sediments in the last twenty years (in Italian) [29 Charts of the Venice lagoon], 1974. 

Progetto Venezia, The available knowledge of the Venice lagoon pollution (in Italian). Edited by Cossu, R. and De Fraja Frangipane for Ministero dei Lavori Pubblici, Magistrato alle acque, Consorzio Venezia Nuova. 4 VoL, 1985. 

Bragato, C., Brix, H., and Malagoli, M., Accumulation of nutrients and heavy metals in Phragmites australis (Cav.) Trim ex Steudel and Bolboschoenus maritimus (L.) Palla in a constructed wetland of the Venice lagoon watershed, Environmental Pollution, 144, 967-975, 2006. 

Martin, J.-M., Dai, M.-H. and Cauwet, G. (1995). Significance of colloids in the biogeochemical cycling of organic carbon and trace metals in the Venice Lagoon (Italy), Limnol. Oceanogr., 40, 119-131. 

Alkylphenol derivatives in the Mediterranean Sea The behaviour of lipophilic metabolites of AgPEO in the Venice lagoon, Italy, was studied in detail by Marcomini et al. [2,3]. Salinity in this estuary is in the range of 25-35%o, and both industrial and domestic wastewater is discharged into the lagoon. Water samples were analysed by high performance liquid chromatography with fluorescence detection (HPLC-FL) [2]. 

In a later study by the same group, the carboxylated metabolites were also included in the analysis [4]. This time, water samples were taken in the Venice lagoon as well as in the Adriatic Sea and in a river reaching the estuary. 

The environmental occurrence of the lower A9PEO oligomers in several types of sediments was studied in the Venice lagoon [2]. A distinction was made between sediments covered with a layer of macroalgae (which are blooming massively in spring-summer), and sediments free of macroalgae. 

In a later study in the Venice lagoon, a dated sediment core was analysed [4]. Seven separate layers were analysed, dating from 1972 back to 1910. 

L. Manodori, A. Gambaro, R. Piazza, S. Ferrari, A.M. Stortini, I. Moret and G. Capodaglio, PCBs and PAHs in sea surface microlayer and subsurface water samples of the Venice Lagoon (Italy), Mar. Pollut. Bull., 52 (2005) 184-192. 

I. Moret, R. Piazza, M. Benedetti, A. Gambaro, C. Barbante and P. Cescon, Determination of polychlorinated biphenyls in Venice Lagoon sediments, Chemosphere, 43 (2001) 559-565. 

Marcomini, A. 2000. Behavior of anionic and nonionic surfactants and their persistent metabolites in the Venice lagoon, Italy. Environ. Toxicol. Chem. 19 2000-2007. 

Moretto, L.M., N.S. Bloom, P. Scopece, and P. Ugo. 2003. Application of ultra clean sampling and analysis methods for the speciation of mercury in the Venice lagoon (Italy). J. Phys. TV France 107 887-890. 

Leardi, R., Armanino, C., Lanteri, S., and Albertotanza, L., Three-mode principal component analysis of monitoring data from Venice lagoon, J. Chemom., 14,187-195, 2000. 

Moret I, Gambaro A, Piazza R, Barbante C, Andreoli C, Corami F, Scarponi G (2000) The seasonal variations of dimethyl sulphide and carbon disulphide in surface waters of the Venice lagoon. Mar Chem 71 283-295... 

Maroli, L., Pavoni, B., Sfriso, A., and RaccaneUi, S. (1993). Concentrations of polychlorinated biphenyls and pesticides in different species of macroalgae from Venice Lagoon. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 26, 553-558. 

Sfriso, A., Marcomini, A., and Pavoni, B. (1987). Relationships between macroalgal biomass and nutrient concentrations in a hypertrophic area of the Venice Lagoon Italy. Mar. Environ. Res. 22,... 

Lowe DM, Fossato V, Depledge MH (1995) Contaminant-induced lysosomal membrane damage in blood cells of mussels (Mytilus galloprovincialis) from the Venice lagoon an in vitro study. Marine Ecology-Progress Series 129 189-96. 

Another study of water quality was published by Leardi et al. [2000] based on monthly sampling over almost 4 years of water in 13 locations along the Venice lagoon (VENICE... 

An example of application of three-way PCA is a data set from the Venice lagoon. In it, 11 chemical variables (chlorophyll-a, total suspended matter, water transparency, fluorescence, turbidity, suspended solids, NH4, NOj", P, COD, and BOD5) have been measured monthly in 13 sampling sites (see Figure 5.5) during the period May 1987 to December 1990, for a total of 44 months. 

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