A global review of vessel collisions with marine animals

RP Schoeman, C Patterson-Abrolat… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Concern about the effects of maritime vessel collisions with marine animals is increasing
worldwide. To date, most scientific publications on this topic have focused on the collisions …

Environmental and human health impacts of cruise tourism: A review

J Lloret, A Carreño, H Carić, J San, LE Fleming - Marine pollution bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
The intensive growth of cruise tourism worldwide during recent decades is leading to
growing concerns over the sector's global environmental and health impacts. This review …

The Mediterranean Sea under siege: spatial overlap between marine biodiversity, cumulative threats and marine reserves

M Coll, C Piroddi, C Albouy… - Global Ecology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Aim A large body of knowledge exists on individual anthropogenic threats that have an
impact on marine biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea, although we know little about how …

[PDF][PDF] The competitiveness of global port-cities: synthesis report

O Merk - 2013 - oecd-ilibrary.org
The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: Synthesis Report Page 1 OECD Regional
Development Working Papers 2013/13 The Competitiveness of Global Port-Cities: Synthesis …

A massive update of non-indigenous species records in Mediterranean marinas

A Ulman, J Ferrario, A Occhpinti-Ambrogi, C Arvanitidis… - PeerJ, 2017 - peerj.com
The Mediterranean Sea is home to over 2/3 of the world's charter boat traffic and hosts an
estimated 1.5 million recreational boats. Studies elsewhere have demonstrated marinas as …

Acoustic and behavioural changes by fin whales (Balaenoptera physalus) in response to shipping and airgun noise

M Castellote, CW Clark, MO Lammers - Biological Conservation, 2012 - Elsevier
Non-lethal behavioural effects of underwater noise in marine mammals are difficult to
measure. Here we report acoustic and behavioural changes by fin whales in response to …

[HTML][HTML] Monitoring the marine invasive alien species Rugulopteryx okamurae using unmanned aerial vehicles and satellites

M Roca, MB Dunbar, A Román, I Caballero… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Rugulopteryx okamurae is a species of brown macroalgae belonging to the Dictyotaceae
family and native to the north-western Pacific. As an Invasive Alien Species (IAS), it was first …

Monitoring Extreme Impacts of Rugulopteryx okamurae (Dictyotales, Ochrophyta) in El Estrecho Natural Park (Biosphere Reserve). Showing Radical Changes in the …

JC García-Gómez, M Florido… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
The invasive macroalga Rugulopteryx okamurae represents an unprecedented case of
bioinvasion by marine macroalgae facing the European coasts. Since the first apparition of …

Spatial and temporal assessment of oil spills in the Mediterranean Sea

S Polinov, R Bookman, N Levin - Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2021 - Elsevier
Ship-generated oil pollution is a significant threat to the Mediterranean Sea. We present a
geostatistical analysis of oil spills using three databases for the Mediterranean Sea …

A deep learning based oil spill detector using Sentinel-1 SAR imagery

YJ Yang, S Singha, R Mayerle - International Journal of Remote …, 2022 - Taylor & Francis
ABSTRACT The Eastern Mediterranean Sea has been known as an oil pollution hotspot due
to its heavy marine traffic and an increasing number of oil and gas exploration activities. To …