Alimini - Italy

Basic Information
Site Name
Alimini
Short name
Alimini
Country
Italy
Web Address
http://www.circlemednet.unisalento.it/TWDataPlatform.aspx
http://www.servicecentrelifewatch.eu/catalogue-of-resources
Site Manager
Ilaria Rosati
Alberto Basset
Site Description
The Alimini Grande Lake has an elongate shape that develops almost parallel to the Adriatic coastline and overall its extension is 1,37 sqkm. It is linked to the Alimini Piccolo by a canal called Lu Strittu, 1300 metres long and from 10 up to 30 meters wide. The chemical-physical characteristics of the waters such as temperature, salinity and dissolved oxygen concentration have been studied for long time. The average salinity is 26.8 with a minimum of 2.7 in winter and a maximum of 41 in summer. Regarding the temperature, it shows the typical seasonal trend with the least minimum temperature recorded between December and January. The freshwater inflow from Traugnano, Strittu e Zuddeo canals descharges a load of nutrients collected ...
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2025-01-07 11:01:19

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General Characteristics and Status
Site Status
Operational
Year Established
1997
Observed properties
ecosystem parameterbiological parameterchemical parameterbenthicinvertebratespresencecommunitycompositiondiversityindexecosystemstructurespeciesabundancespeciescompositionspeciespresencespeciesrichnessspeciestraitdissolvednutrient
Affiliation and Network Specific Information
Affiliation
ILTER✔This site is a verified "ILTER" member.
LTER Europe✔This site is a verified "LTER Europe" member.
LTER Italia (Italy)✔ (LTER_EU_IT_105)This site is a verified "LTER Italia (Italy)" member.
GERI✔This site is a verified "GERI" member.
Projects
Natura 2000
Photos
not defined
not defined
Geographic
2 km
1 mi
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Centroid/Representative Coordinates

Latitude: 40.202 Longitude: 18.441

Size
ca. 137.00ha
Elevation (average)
0.00msl
Elevation (min)
0.00msl
Elevation (max)
0.00msl
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Centroid/representative coordinates [.shp] [.kml]
Bounding Box [.shp] [.kml]
Boundaries [.shp] [.kml]
GEO-BON Biome
Coastal
Biome
Coastal
Ecosystem Type
Coastal
Biogeographical Region
Mediterranean Bio-geographical Region
EUNIS habitat
Habitat complexes (X)
Habitat complexes (X) » Brackish coastal lagoons (X03)
Air Temperature: Average Annual
19.00°C
Precipitation Annual
610.00mm
Site Type
Stationary land-based site
Design of Experimentation
mainly experimentation
Scale of Experimentation
micro sites
Design of Observation
mainly observation
Scale of Observation
sub-catchment within catchment
Permanent Power Supply
Yes
Equipment
Data infrastructure » Data services » Data portal
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Structured file
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Spatial database (GIS)
Data infrastructure » Data storage » Relational database
Equipment notes
The Department of Biological and Environmental Sciences and Technologies (DiSTeBA) offers an indoor physical infrastructure (BIOforIU) which combines laboratory facilities with other services and systems: mobile laboratories; systems for breeding and experimentation on model aquatic organisms, ecotrones and thermostatic chambers; metagenomic and bioinformatic laboratories; advanced centres for electronic, confocal and classical microscopy and cellular bioimaging; bioenergetic and environmental ecology laboratories and e-Science infrastructure (http://bioforiu.unisalento.it/it-it/nodi/nodo1unisalento.aspx).
Accessible All Year
Yes
All parts of Site Accessible
Yes
Access Type
boat
Permanent Operation
No
General Data Policy
Co-authorship on publications resulting from use of the dataset
LTER Site Classification
Regular
There is EURO-CORDEX climate scenario data available for this site:
Projected Near Surface Specific Humidity ChangeRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Precipitation ChangeRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Sea Level Pressure ChangeRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Surface Downwelling Shortwave RadiationRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Near-Surface Wind SpeedRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Near-Surface Air TemperatureRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Daily Maximum Near-Surface Air TemperatureRCP26RCP45RCP85
Projected Daily Minimum Near-Surface Air TemperatureRCP26RCP45RCP85

You can also download the entire climate scenario dataset for this site from the EUDAT B2SHARE data store.