The semi-enclosed nature of the Mediterranean Sea, together with its smaller inertia due to
the relative short residence time of its water masses, make it highly reactive to external …

The MEDITS programme started in 1994 in the Mediterranean with the cooperation among
research institutes from four countries: France, Greece, Italy and Spain. Over the years, until …

We present the first representative and quantified overview of the indices used worldwide for
assessing the biodiversity of coral reef fishes. On this basis, we discuss the suitability and …

Biodiversity is a measure of the total difference within a biological system. It is understood to
arise at genetic, species and multiple levels of community organisation, hence is …

Measures of biodiversity change may be useful as indicators if they are responsive to
manageable drivers of biodiversity loss. However, there are many candidate indicators that …

Knowledge of broad-scale global patterns in beta diversity (ie, variation or turnover in
identities of species) for marine systems is in its infancy. We analysed the beta diversity of …

Background Large-scale patterns or trends in species diversity have long interested
ecologists. The classic pattern is for diversity (eg, species richness) to decrease with …

This study analyzes the temporal variability/stability of the spatial distributions of key
exploited species in the Gulf of Lions (Northwestern Mediterranean Sea). To do so, we …

Biodiversity in estuarine ecosystems suffers from the impact of environmental changes and
human activities. This mainly involves changes in temperature, salinity, pollution, habitat …

Ecological diversity based on quantitative data is widely used to characterize biological
communities, but recently morphological and functional traits have also been used to …