Spatial representations of threatening processes–“threat maps”–can identify where
biodiversity is at risk, and are often used to identify priority locations for conservation. In …

Cruise tourism is a growing sector of the travel and recreation industry. Due to it mobility it is
often one of the first forms of tourism to relocate to new host environments and it is …

Humans interact with the oceans in diverse and profound ways. The scope, magnitude,
footprint and ultimate cumulative impacts of human activities can threaten ocean ecosystems …

Spatial priorities for the conservation of three key Mediterranean habitats, ie seagrass
Posidonia oceanica meadows, coralligenous formations, and marine caves, were …

Global changes represent possibly the greatest threat to the future of biodiversity, and this is
especially true for species using very different habitats during their life cycle. The problem is …

Despite the recognized important ecological role that cetaceans play in the marine
environment, their protection is still scarcely enforced in the Mediterranean Sea even though …

Monitoring of aquatic ecosystems has been historically accomplished by intensive
campaigns of direct measurements (by probes and other boat instruments) and indirect …

Cystoseira species are some of the most important marine ecosystem-engineers, forming
extended canopies comparable to land forests. Such forests are sensitive to human …

Global conservation policy requires the scaling up of effectively and equitably managed
networks of marine protected areas (MPAs). While progress has been made on spatial …

Systematic conservation planning (SCP) has increasingly been used to prioritize
conservation actions, including the design of new protected areas to achieve conservation …