The Mediterranean Sea is a marine biodiversity hot spot. Here we combined an extensive
literature analysis with expert opinions to update publicly available estimates of major taxa …

Biological rhythms are a widespread feature of living organisms, being expressed at any
level of their organization. Behavioral and physiological rhythms can affect the results on …

Pioneering deep-sea surveys established that the fauna of the continental margins is zoned
in the sense that individual species and assemblages occupy restricted depth bands. It has …

Genetic connectivity and geographic fragmentation are two opposing mechanisms
determining the population structure of species. While the first homogenizes the genetic …

Horse mackerel stock identification was carried out with the aim of obtaining management
units that were meaningful biological entities and thus improving the management of the …

The demersal resources distributed in the trawl fishing grounds off the Balearic Islands
(western Mediterranean) were studied from two bottom trawl surveys carried out in spring …

Taxonomic and ecological interest in squat lobsters has grown considerably over the last
two decades. A checklist of the 870 current valid species of squat lobsters of the world …

The present Mediterranean molluscan biodiversity, comprising more than 2,000 species,
was shaped by the multiple events connected with the geodynamic and climatic evolution of …

Comparative multispecies studies allow contrasting the effect of past and present
oceanographic processes on phylogeographic patterns. In the present study, a fragment of …

Benthic habitats, as well as their associated biota, have been studied in the Alboran Sea
since the nineteenth century, with a very significant increase of knowledge in the last five …