The current amendments to the Mediterranean marine Non-Indigenous Species (NIS)
inventory for the period 2017-2019 are the result of a continuous literature search and …

Observations of climate impacts on ecosystems highlight the need for an understanding of
organismal thermal ranges and their implications at the ecosystem level. Where changes in …

The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

Addressing important questions in animal ecology, physiology, and environmental science
often requires in situ information from wild animals. This difficulty is being overcome by …

Basal or standard metabolic rate reflects the minimum amount of energy required to
maintain body processes, while the maximum metabolic rate sets the ceiling for aerobic …

Intraspecific variation in key traits such as tolerance of warming can have profound effects
on ecological and evolutionary processes, notably responses to climate change. The …

Movement of fishes in the aquatic realm is fundamental to their ecology and survival.
Movement can be driven by a variety of biological, physiological and environmental factors …

With the occurrence of global change, research aimed at estimating the performance of
marine ectotherms in a warmer and acidified future has intensified. The concept of oxygen …

Niche partitioning of time, space or resources is considered the key to allowing the
coexistence of competitor species, and particularly guilds of predators. However, the extent …

Identifying factors that influence how ectothermic animals respond physiologically to
changing temperatures is of high importance given current threats of global climate change …