Biological invasions, resulting from human activities, exert substantial impacts on
ecosystems worldwide. This review focuses on marine invasive alien species (IAS) in …

Rapid anthropogenic climate change is a major threat to ocean biodiversity, increasing the
challenge for marine conservation. Strategic conservation planning, and more recently …

Like most ocean regions today, the European and contiguous seas experience cumulative
impacts from local human activities and global pressures. They are largely in poor …

Mediterranean marine protected areas (MPAs), designed to achieve long-term nature
conservation, are progressively conquered by invasive species of tropical origin, posing …

Copenhagen, Denmark, 3 LifeWatch ERIC, Plaza de España, Seville, Spain, 4 Institute of
Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture, Hellenic Centre for Marine Research …

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 …

Simple Summary The fall armyworm and larger grain borer are two of the main invasive
cereal insect pests of cereal crops in Africa. These pests cause successive synergistic …

The silver-cheeked toadfish (Lagocephalus sceleratus, from the pufferfish family
Tetraodontidae) and the Pacific red lionfish (Pterois miles, family Scorpaenidae) have …

The floating marine debris (FMD) and the associated rafting communities are one of the
major stressors to ecosystem services, global biodiversity and economy and human health …

Invasive seaweeds are listed among the most relevant threats to marine ecosystems
worldwide. Biodiversity hotspots, such as the Mediterranean Sea, are facing multiple …