Cumulative impacts increasingly threaten marine and coastal ecosystems. To address this
issue, the research community has invested efforts on designing and testing different …

Potential for, and limits to, adaptation to environmental changes are critical for resilience and
risk mitigation. The Mediterranean basin is a mosaic of biodiversity‐rich ecosystems long …

The worldwide decline of macroalgal forests is raising major concerns for the potentially
negative consequences on biodiversity and ecosystem functions, pushing for the definition …

Marine forests are shrinking globally due to several anthropogenic impacts including climate
change. Forest-forming macroalgae, such as Cystoseira sl species, can be particularly …

Canopy-forming macroalgae, especially those belonging to the order Fucales, are creating
the so-called brown algal forests that are considered amongst the most productive …

Citation: Bevilacqua, S., G. Savonitto, M. Lipizer, P. Mancuso, S. Ciriaco, M. Srijemsi, and A.
Falace. 2019. Climatic anomalies may create a long-lasting ecological phase shift by …

Shallow estuarine habitats are globally undergoing rapid changes due to climate change
and anthropogenic influences, resulting in spatiotemporal shifts in distribution and habitat …

Ecosystems constantly change, yet managers often lack information to move beyond static
habitat assumptions. As human impacts and geographic information systems advance, it is …

Seaweed communities are important coastal ecosystems representing good indicators of
environmental variation related to climate change and other long-term changes. Long-term …

Habitat loss is jeopardizing marine biodiversity. In the Mediterranean Sea, the algal forests
of Cystoseira spp. form one of the most complex, productive and vulnerable shallow-water …