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Stamatios Petalas, Elina Tragou, Ioannis G. Mamoutos and Vassilis Zervakis
Inter-basin water exchanges can be quite important in climatic-scale numerical studies simulating the circulation and hydrographic characteristics of neighboring oceanic basins connected through narrow straits. The crucial role of the interaction between...
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Omneya Ibrahim, Bayoumy Mohamed and Hazem Nagy
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) can cause devastating impacts on marine life. The frequency of MHWs, gauged with respect to historical temperatures, is expected to rise significantly as the climate continues to warm. The MHWs intensity and count are pronounced w...
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Sikandar Hayat, Elisavet Skampa, Alexandra Gogou, Spyros Stavrakakis, Constantine Parinos and Maria Triantaphyllou
This study is the first attempt to understand the coccolith flux and its seasonal variability at the deepest part of the Mediterranean Sea. Samples were obtained from the deepest Mediterranean time-series sediment trap (4300 m) moored in the SE Ionian Se...
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Murat Bilecenoglu and Melih Ertan Çinar
This study presents the first comprehensive assessment of alien species occurrences within the selected 11 Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) located on the Aegean and Levantine coasts of Turkey. The inventory includes a total of 289 species belonging to 15 p...
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Antonietta Rosso, Vasilis Gerovasileiou and Emanuela Di Martino
Investigation of bryozoan faunas collected in two submarine caves in Lesvos Island, Aegean Sea revealed a great number of colonies of three species currently assigned to the cheilostome family Onychocellidae: Onychocella marioni Jullien, 1882, O. vibracu...
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Roxani Naasan Aga Spyridopoulou, Joachim Langeneck, Dimitris Bouziotis, Ioannis Giovos, Periklis Kleitou and Stefanos Kalogirou
The biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea is rapidly changing due to anthropogenic activity and the recent increase of seawater temperature. Citizen science is escalating as an important contributor in the inventory of rare and data-limited species. In t...
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Marijana Hure, Mirna Batistic, Vedrana Kovacevic, Manuel Bensi and Rade Garic
Copepod communities were studied along an east-west transect in the oligotrophic Southern Adriatic Sea. This dynamic region is under the influence of various physical forces, including winter vertical convection, lateral exchanges between coastal and ope...
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Flora E. Karathanasi, Takvor H. Soukissian and Daniel R. Hayes
The investigation of wave climate is of primary concern for the successful implementation of offshore aquaculture systems as waves can cause significant loads on them. Up until now, site selection and design (or selection) of offshore cage system structu...
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Michail Ragkousis, Markos Digenis, Marcelo Kovacic, Stelios Katsanevakis and Vasilis Gerovasileiou
Data on the distribution and ecology of cryptobenthic fish of marine caves in the Mediterranean Sea are extremely scarce but necessary for scientists and marine managers alike in order to understand these fish?s ecological role and assess their conservat...
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Guido Pietroluongo, Giulia Cipriano, Karthik Ashok, Simone Antichi, Heloise Carlier, Anastasia Miliou, Rosalia Maglietta, Carmelo Fanizza and Roberto Carlucci
The Mediterranean subpopulation of short-beaked common dolphin Delphinus delphis is ranked as endangered on the IUCN (International Union for Conservation of Nature) Red List because it has sharply declined during the last decades, resulting in sparse an...
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Luca Massi, Laura Frittitta, Chiara Melillo, Francesca Polonelli, Veronica Bianchi, Anna Maria De Biasi and Caterina Nuccio
Chromophoric dissolved organic matter (CDOM) is the fraction of the Dissolved Organic Carbon (DOC) mainly absorbing UV and blue radiation, influencing water optical properties, light availability for primary production, and water-leaving radiance. In ope...
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Giulia Cipriano, Roberto Carlucci, Stefano Bellomo, Francesca Cornelia Santacesaria, Carmelo Fanizza, Pasquale Ricci and Rosalia Maglietta
Relatively scant information is available on the Risso?s dolphin in comparison to the other species regularly present in the Mediterranean Sea. Recently, its conservation status has been updated to Endangered by the International Union for Conservation o...
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Dimitris Klaoudatos, Labrini Tziantziou, Alexios Lolas, Nikos Neofitou and Dimitris Vafidis
The black sea urchin (Arbacia lixula, Linnaeus, 1758) is a non-edible marine echinoderm of high ecological importance with the potential to affect marine ecological communities. A. lixula were sampled monthly for one year from the supralittoral fringe at...
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Alexios Lolas, Ioannis T. Karapanagiotidis, Panagiota Panagiotaki and Dimitris Vafidis
Caprella scaura is an invasive amphipod, native to the Indian Ocean, which has already spread to several regions of the world, including the Mediterranean Sea. The present study reports the first occurrence of the species on fish farms cages in Greece, i...
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Simona Saviano, Daniela Cianelli, Enrico Zambianchi, Fabio Conversano and Marco Uttieri
Surface gravity waves retrieved by a network of HF (High Frequency) radars and measured in situ by an ADCP (Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler) current meter connected to an elastic beacon were used to carry out a multiple-year characterization of the wav...
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Caterina Stamouli, Vasilis Gerovasileiou and Eleni Voultsiadou
Sponge assemblages play a significant role in the functioning of the Mediterranean benthic ecosystem. The main goal of this study was to investigate the diversity and distribution of poorly known sponge communities in the mesophotic and deep-sea substrat...
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Aylin Ulman, Stefanos Kalogirou and Daniel Pauly
The Eastern Mediterranean Sea is the most invaded sea on the planet, with 666 non-indigenous species now recorded in the region. However, not all of these become successful in their new environments. Success here is defined by wide geographical spread, i...
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Dimitris Poursanidis, Kostas Kougioumoutzis, Vasileios Minasidis, Niki Chartosia, Demetris Kletou and Stefanos Kalogirou
Biological invasions are considered among the largest threats to native biodiversity. The Mediterranean Sea, connecting the Indo-Pacific and Atlantic oceans, is characterized as a global marine invasion hotspot, due to a multitude of human pathways and v...
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Joachim Langeneck, Vasileios Minasidis, Nikolaos Doumpas, Ioannis Giovos, Alexandros Kaminas, Periklis Kleitou, Francesco Tiralongo and Fabio Crocetta
Raising knowledge of the dispersal of non-indigenous species (NIS) in new geographic areas is a matter of major concern, as alien species may outcompete the native biota through competition, predation, and hybridization. In the Mediterranean Sea, where b...
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Katarína Cekovská, Radek ?anda, Kristýna Eliá?ová, Marcelo Kovacic, Stamatis Zogaris, Anna Maria Pappalardo, Tereza Soukupová and Jasna Vukic
Gobies (Gobiiformes: Gobiidae) are the most species-rich family of fishes in general, and the most abundant fish group in the European seas. Nonetheless, our knowledge on many aspects of their biology, including the population genetic diversity, is poor....
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