With ongoing environmental degradation at local, regional, and global scales, people's
accepted thresholds for environmental conditions are continually being lowered. In the …

Biotic homogenisation is defined as decreasing dissimilarity among ecological assemblages
sampled within a given spatial area over time. Biotic differentiation, in turn, is defined as …

Biological invasions have become a defining feature of marine Mediterranean ecosystems
with significant impacts on biodiversity, ecosystem services, and human health. We …

Marine bioconstructions are biodiversity-rich, three-dimensional biogenic structures,
regulating key ecological functions of benthic ecosystems worldwide. Tropical coral reefs …

As marine ecosystems are influenced by global and regional processes, standardized
information on community structure has become crucial for assessing broad-scale …

In the Anthropocene, marine ecosystems are rapidly shifting to new ecological states.
Achieving effective conservation of marine biodiversity has become a fast‐moving target …

Here we review the multiple interactions between the endemic Mediterranean seagrass,
Posidonia oceanica, and coastal geomorphologic processes as an outstanding example of …

Climate change is presenting a global challenge to society and ecosystems. This is
changing long-standing methods to determine the values of forests to include their role in …

Biodiversity is a portmanteau word to indicate the variety of life at all levels from genes to
ecosystems, but it is often simplistically equated to species richness; the word ecodiversity …

Abstract In the Mediterranean Sea, Fucales, and in particular the species of the genus
Cystoseira C. Agardh, are habitat-forming species dominating several benthic assemblages …