Biodiversity of plankton cysts from the Mar Piccolo of Taranto 2010-2014

The study of the plankton cyst bank from the Mar Piccolo of Taranto started in 1996 and is still ongoing. Different stations located in the two sub-basins basin are intermittently sampled, collecting surface sediments for cyst analysis The identification of more than 100 different morphotypes was performed over the years