Mediterranean marine caves: A synthesis of current knowledge

V Gerovasileiou, CN Bianchi - Oceanography and Marine Biology, 2021 - taylorfrancis.com
Marine caves are biodiversity reservoirs and refuge habitats, harbouring rare species and
living fossils. The Mediterranean Sea hosts more than 3000 caves, which are among the …

Alien biodiversity in Mediterranean marine caves

V Gerovasileiou, E Voultsiadou, Y Issaris… - Marine …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The number of alien species in the Mediterranean Sea is increasing rapidly, but few
attempts have been made to evaluate impacts on specific habitat types. The present study …

[PDF][PDF] Bryozoan diversity in the Mediterranean Sea

A Rosso - Biogeographia–The Journal of Integrative …, 2003 - escholarship.org
The present study constitutes an updated evaluation of the Mediterranean bryozoan
biodiversity afer the paper by Harmelin (1992) based on Zabala and Maluquer (1988) list …

Pendant bioconstructions cemented by microbial carbonate in submerged marine caves (Holocene, SE Sicily)

A Guido, K Heindel, D Birgel, A Rosso… - Palaeogeography …, 2013 - Elsevier
Unusual pendant bioconstructions occur within two submerged caves in the Plemmirio
Marine Protected Area, south of Syracuse (SE Sicily). These cm-to dm-sized …

[PDF][PDF] Faunas and ecological groups of Serpuloidea, Bryozoa and Brachiopoda from submarine caves in Sicily (Mediterranean Sea)

A Rosso, R Sanfilippo, E Taddei Ruggiero… - Bollettino della …, 2013 - researchgate.net
Serpuloideans, bryozoans and brachiopods, which are among the most representative
sessile skeletonised invertebrates in marine caves, are examined herein from four selected …

Colonisers of the dark: biostalactite‐associated metazoans from “lu Lampiùne” submarine cave (Apulia, Mediterranean Sea)

A Rosso, R Sanfilippo, A Guido… - Marine …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Metazoan/microbial bioconstructions, or biostalactites (BSTs), discovered in submarine
caves of Apulia c. 20 years ago—and later found in several shallow‐water Mediterranean …

Cryptic serpulid-microbialite bioconstructions in the Kakoskali submarine cave (Cyprus, Eastern Mediterranean)

A Guido, C Jimenez, K Achilleos, A Rosso, R Sanfilippo… - Facies, 2017 - Springer
The biostalactites from the Kakoskali cave in Cyprus represent a new example of the
complex biotic relationships between skeletal organisms and microbial communities in …

High xenodiversity versus low native diversity in the south-eastern Mediterranean: bryozoans from the coastal zone of Lebanon

JG Harmelin, G Bitar, H Zibrowius - Mediterranean Marine Science, 2016 - hal.science
Because of its location in the warmest corner of the Mediterranean, its proximity to the
northern entrance of the Suez Canal, ie the gateway for massive exotic biota introduction …

Capturing the moment: a snapshot of Mediterranean bryozoan diversity in the early 2023

A Rosso, EM DI - Mediterranean Marine Science, 2023 - ejournals.epublishing.ekt.gr
This paper is an update on the Mediterranean bryozoan diversity since the annotated check-
list of Rosso & Di Martino (2016), following the publication of numerous new papers …

Commensal symbiosis between agglutinated polychaetes and sulfate‐reducing bacteria

A Guido, A Mastandrea, A Rosso, R Sanfilippo… - …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Pendant bioconstructions occur within submerged caves in the Plemmirio Marine Protected
Area in SE Sicily, Italy. These rigid structures, here termed biostalactites, were …