Little doubt is left that climate change is underway, strongly affecting the Earth's biodiversity.
Some of the greatest challenges ahead concern the marine realm, but it is unclear to what …

Over the past four decades, the understanding of Mediterranean oceanography has evolved
considerably. From a purely stationary view, there has been a shift to a concept that …

The state-of-art on alien species in the Mediterranean Sea is presented, making distinctions
among the four subregions defined in the EU Marine Strategy Framework Directive:(i) the …

A striking example of climate‐mediated range shifts in marine systems is the intrusion of
tropical species into temperate areas world‐wide, but we know very little about the …

One of the most degraded states of the Mediterranean rocky infralittoral ecosystem is a
barren composed solely of bare rock and patches of crustose coralline algae. Barrens are …

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 …

Abstract The Suez Canal is the main pathway of introduction of non-indigenous species into
the Mediterranean Sea. The successive enlargements of the Suez Canal have raised …

The canopy-forming fucoid Cystoseira spp. provide biogenic structure, food and shelter for
many organisms including fishes on Mediterranean nearshore rocky reefs. Infralittoral …

The prevalence of local adaptation and phenotypic plasticity among populations is critical to
accurately predicting when and where climate change impacts will occur. Currently …

This work presents refined, updated subregional and regional non-indigenous species (NIS)
inventories for the Mediterranean Sea, validated by national and taxonomic experts, with …