The date mussel Lithophaga lithophaga is an edible endolithic bivalve, protected by the EU
Habitats Directive and other international agreements, living inside carbonate rocks. Its …

This fully revised and expanded edition of Sea Urchins provides a wide-ranging
understanding of the biology and ecology of this key component of the world's oceans …

Particles from tires are a major fraction of microplastic pollution. They contain a wide range
of chemical additives that can leach into the water and be harmful to aquatic organisms. In …

Conservation genomic studies in non‐model organisms generally rely on reduced
representation sequencing techniques based on restriction enzymes to identify population …

Abstract In the Mediterranean Sea the co-occurring sea urchins Paracentrotus lividus and
Arbacia lixula are usually considered to share the same ecological role in the formation of …

Among the most common contaminants in marine ecosystems, trace elements are
recognized as serious pollutants. In Corsica (NW Mediterranean Sea), near the old asbestos …

Identifying the relationships between morphology and trophic niche is at the core of
functional morphology. Low resource diversity and fluxes of organic carbon are expected to …

Increasing anthropogenic pressures are causing long-lasting regime shifts from high-
diversity ecosystems to low-diversity ones. In the Mediterranean Sea, large expanses of …

The increasing abundances of the thermophilous black sea urchin Arbacia lixula in the
Mediterranean Sea are attributed to the Western Mediterranean warming. However, few …

The purple sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus is a Mediterranean and northeastern Atlantic
species. It is particularly common in the subtidal zone, down to depths of 10–20 m and in …