Biological invasions have become a defining feature of marine Mediterranean ecosystems
with significant impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health. We …

ABSTRACT The Mediterranean Sea is a biodiversity hotspot containing between 15,000
and 20,000 marine species, nearly a quarter of which are endemic. The causes of the high …

This is an annotated checklist of the marine fish species of Lebanon (Levant coast, eastern
Mediterranean). It comprises a total of 367 fish species distributed in 159 families and 27 …

In this study, the ecological and societal impact of the invasive pufferfish Lagocephalus
sceleratus on coastal habitats of an area of the eastern Mediterranean Sea (Rhodes Island) …

We review the literature of marine non-indigenous fishes (NIF) in order to summarize
information on their ecological impacts and to compare successful invading freshwater …

The ecosystems of the Israeli Mediterranean coast have undergone significant changes in
recent decades mainly due to species invasions and fishing. In order to characterize the …

During the last few decades the fish community has changed substantially along the Eastern
Mediterranean continental shelf, which is a hotspot of invasion by species that had migrated …

Public participation is increasingly used to both study and manage marine bio-invasions.
Here, we outline the use of public surveys to rapidly acquire information on the very first …

Experimental fishing was conducted in three different locations along the coastal marine
waters of eastern Rhodes Island, Levantine Sea, Hellas, from April 2021 to March 2022 on a …

Four specimens of the northern brown shrimp Penaeus aztecus Ives, 1891, a West Atlantic
species, were unexpectedly caught by bottom trawlers along the South coast of Sicily …