The Mediterranean community represented in this paper is the result of more than 30 years
of EU and nationally funded coordination, which has led to key contributions in science …

Seascape ecology is an emerging pattern‐oriented and integrative science conceptually
linked to landscape ecology. It aims to quantify multidimensional spatial structure in the sea …

Seascape ecology, the marine-centric counterpart to landscape ecology, is rapidly emerging
as an interdisciplinary and spatially explicit ecological science with relevance to marine …

The continuing development of appropriate environmental predictors is important to
improving the performance of fish habitat models. Mesoscale oceanographic features …

Tunas show a wide variety of life history strategies, spatial distributions and migratory
behaviors, yet they share a common trait of spawning only in tropical and sub-tropical …

Life-history traits such as spawning migrations and timing of reproduction are adaptations to
specific environmental constraints and seasonal cycles in many organisms' annual routines …

The increasing science and society requests for ocean monitoring from global to regional
and local scales, the need for integration and convergence into a globally consistent ocean …

The marine conservation strategy focused on the establishment of marine protected areas
(MPAs) has been adopted widely in the Mediterranean, in line with the main international …

• Fisheries in the Mediterranean and Black Sea are multi-specific and multi-fleet, with small
pelagic species the most important in terms of landings and small-scale fisheries (SSF) the …

Marine resources stewardships are progressively becoming more receptive to an effective
incorporation of both ecosystem and environmental complexities into the analytical …