Thisvestigates the anthropogenic footprint on a coastal marine environment near the Istrian coast (Northern Adriatic Sea) through a scientific diving field campaign conducted in September 2025. The investigation aimed to evaluate local seawater quality by combining onsite hydrochemical measurements with targeted analyses of trace metal elements (TME) and linear alkylbenzene sulfonates (LAS) as indicators of maritime and touris...

Genetic differentiation plays a key role in the resilience of reef-building corals under increasing environmental stress. In marine systems, patterns of genetic structure are often shaped by geographic distance and environmental heterogeneity, commonly described as isolation by distance (IBD) and isolation by environment (IBE). Here, we examined patterns of mitochondrial genetic differentiation in the brooding coral Porites pa...