[HTML][HTML] Reviewing the ecosystem services, societal goods, and benefits of marine protected areas

C Marcos, D Díaz, K Fietz, A Forcada, A Ford… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are globally important environmental management tools that
provide protection from the effects of human exploitation and activities, supporting the …

Temperate mesophotic ecosystems: gaps and perspectives of an emerging conservation challenge for the Mediterranean Sea

C Cerrano, A Bastari, B Calcinai… - The European …, 2019 - Taylor & Francis
Mesophotic habitats, hosting benthic assemblages totally unknown and unexpected in the
early 2000s, are attracting an increasing interest from scientists. Realizing that many long …

The MEDITS trawl survey specifications in an ecosystem approach to fishery management

MT Spedicato, E Massutí, B Mérigot… - Scientia …, 2019 - scientiamarina.revistas.csic.es
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 …

[HTML][HTML] Accounting for environmental and fishery management factors when standardizing CPUE data from a scientific survey: A case study for Nephrops norvegicus …

M Chiarini, S Guicciardi, S Angelini, ID Tuck, F Grilli… - PloS One, 2022 - journals.plos.org
Abundance and distribution of commercial marine resources are influenced by
environmental variables, which together with fishery patterns may also influence their …

Space oddity: the mission for spatial integration

AM Berger, DR Goethel, PD Lynch… - Canadian Journal of …, 2017 - cdnsciencepub.com
Fishery management decisions are commonly guided by stock assessment models that
aggregate outputs across the spatial domain of the species. With refined understanding of …

Multidimensional assessment of supporting ecosystem services for marine spatial planning of the Adriatic Sea

E Manea, D Di Carlo, D Depellegrin, T Agardy… - Ecological indicators, 2019 - Elsevier
The assessment and mapping of ecosystem services (ES) has become an increasingly
important instrument for environmental management and conservation priority-setting. As …

Towards an ecosystem-based marine spatial planning in the deep Mediterranean Sea

E Manea, S Bianchelli, E Fanelli, R Danovaro… - Science of the Total …, 2020 - Elsevier
The deep sea covers about 79% of the Mediterranean basin, including habitats potentially
able to deliver multiple ecosystem services and numerous resources of high economic …

[HTML][HTML] All shallow coastal habitats matter as nurseries for Mediterranean juvenile fish

A Cheminée, L Le Direach, E Rouanet, P Astruch… - Scientific reports, 2021 - nature.com
Coastal zones are ecosystems of high economic value but exposed to numerous
disturbances, while they represent nurseries for many fish species, raising the issue of the …

[HTML][HTML] The role of nitrogen and phosphorus in Eutrophication of the northern Adriatic sea: history and future scenarios

M Marini, F Grilli - Applied Sciences, 2023 - mdpi.com
In the last two decades of the 21st century, a gradual decrease in nitrogen and phosphorus
has been observed along the coastal area of the Northern Adriatic Sea. This depletion is …

[HTML][HTML] What, where, and when: Spatial-temporal distribution of macro-litter on the seafloor of the western and central Mediterranean sea

A Cau, A Sbrana, S Franceschini, F Fiorentino… - Environmental …, 2024 - Elsevier
The progressive increase of marine macro-litter on the bottom of the Mediterranean Sea is
an urgent problem that needs accurate information and guidance to identify those areas …