Advances in Water Quality Monitoring and Assessment in Marine and Coastal Regions

Results from field studies encompassing innovative technologies (e.g., automatic systems, fixed points of observation, remote sensing), promising approaches and methodologies (e.g., indicators, microbiology, structural and functional changes of biodiversity, link between quality and climate-related local changes) and modeling are reported here, dealing with surface waters in coastal regions. The papers in this Special Issue can be grouped according to the following topics: Microbial variables as indirect estimators of ecosystem quality, modelling, advanced systems for monitoring