Bycatch–a term widely used to refer to part of the catch unintentionally caught during a
fishing operation, in addition to target species, and consisting of the discards and incidental …

The term cold-water coral sensu lato groups taxa with a more or less pronounced frame-
building ability (eg Lophelia pertusa and Madrepora oculata) with forest-forming organisms …

The Mediterranean deep-sea contains a mosaic of ecosystems and habitat types. Among
them, cold-water corals provide shelter to a large and unique variety of organisms as well as …

Seamounts host some of the most important deep‐sea ecosystems. The unique
environmental characteristics of seamounts sustain rich biological hot spots, which, in recent …

An ecologically representative, well‐connected, and effectively managed system of marine
protected areas (MPAs) has positive ecological and environmental effects as well as social …

Highly diverse megabenthic assemblages dominated by passive and active suspension
feeders have been recently reported in shelf edge environments of the Mediterranean Sea …

Within the Mediterranean basin there are 82 species of deep-sea corals belonging to six
orders of the phylum Cnidaria (Antipatharia, Scleractinia, Zoantharia, Alcyonacea …

Ecological theory predicts that heterogeneous habitats allow more species to co-exist in a
given area, but to date, knowledge on relationships between habitat heterogeneity and …

Image-based research in mesophotic and deep environments of the Mediterranean Sea has
significantly increased during the past decades. So far, this research has been focused on …

Abstract The Alboran Sea displays the highest values of animal species richness in the
European seas, and invertebrates comprise the bulk of this diversity. In this chapter, the …