Global change is striking harder and faster in the Mediterranean Sea than elsewhere, where
high levels of human pressure and proneness to climate change interact in modifying the …

There is an urgent need to better understand the stressors, namely heatwaves, changes in
thermohaline circulation and mucilage events, that are rapidly re-sha** bioconstructions …

Mass mortality events and anthropogenic impacts affecting Paramuricea clavata (Risso,
1826) have been increasingly documented during the last decades. These impacts have …

This paper aims at collating and reviewing all data collected using the ESCA (Ecological
Status of Coralligenous Assemblages) index from 2009 to 2018 during different local …

Mediterranean mesophotic hard bottoms are mostly characterized by coralligenous banks.
Although investigations on this habitat have increased in the last years, knowledge about its …

We report here for the first time the effectiveness of Reteporella bryozoan genus in the early
stage of coralligenous reefs recolonization through the analysis of the settlement and the …

During the last twenty years, several studies have demonstrated the primary role of the
lithological properties of hard substrates in conditioning the diversity and structure of marine …

Among Mediterranean habitat-forming alcyonaceans, the sea fan Eunicella verrucosa is
known to form dense forests at circalittoral depths, providing seascape complexity and …

Distribution and occurrence data of the sea fan Leptogorgia sarmentosa (Esper, 1791) in the
Mediterranean Sea were updated thanks to new photographic surveys, highlighting the …

Seagrass wrack are commonly found on the beach face of the sandy shore all around the
world and often persists in situ during the whole year, favouring the emergence of conflicts …