Micro-plastic particles in the world's oceans represent a serious threat to both human health
and marine ecosystems. Once released into the aquatic environment plastic litter is broken …

The identification of nursery grounds and other essential fish habitats of exploited stocks is a
key requirement for the development of spatial conservation planning aimed at reducing the …

Visual ship transect surveys provide crucial information about the density, and spatial
distribution of floating anthropogenic litter in a basin. However, such observations provide a …

Spatial fisheries management is widely used to reduce overfishing, rebuild stocks, and
protect biodiversity. However, the effectiveness and optimization of spatial measures …

Predicting range shifts of marine species under different CO2 emission scenarios is of
paramount importance to understand spatial potential changes in a context of climate …

Trawl fishing activities have occurred for centuries on large spatial scale in the entire
Mediterranean Sea, and today they are considered as one of the main and widespread …

Given the great overfishing of the demersal resources in the Northern Adriatic Sea
(geographical sub‐area [GSA] 17), along with the fishing pressure in marine habitats …

Multiple anthropogenic activities can exert adverse effects on marine vulnerable ecological
components and the ecosystem services they provide to human well-being. Emilia …

Aquaculture is the fastest growing food production industry in the world yet research and
guidance demonstrating strategic multi-objective zoning for sector expansion is scarce …

This study extends our knowledge of the bioaccumulation of polycyclic aromatic
hydrocarbons (PAHs) in marine organisms and investigates its possible determinants. PAH …