Abstract Floating Offshore Wind Farms (FOWFs) are the most promising renewable energy
resource. Floating turbines are installed at progressively increasing water depths, interacting …

Bycatch–a term widely used to refer to part of the catch unintentionally caught during a
fishing operation, in addition to target species, and consisting of the discards and incidental …

The largest semi-enclosed basin in the world, the Mediterranean Sea, is characterized by
high biodiversity and heavy human pressure on the coastal system. The Strait of Sicily (SoS) …

Deep-sea hydrothermal vents and methane seeps are inhabited by members of the same
higher taxa but share few species, thus scientists have long sought habitats or regions of …

The seabed morphology, type of sediments, and dominant benthic species on eleven mud
volcanoes and diapirs located on the northern sector of the Gulf of Cádiz continental slope …

Marine hydrothermal systems are a special kind of extreme environments associated with
submarine volcanic activity and characterized by harsh chemo-physical conditions, in terms …

Background Hydrothermal vents, cold seeps, pockmarks and seamounts are widely
distributed on the ocean floor. Over the last fifty years, the knowledge about these volcanic …

Plumbing systems of marine seeps are complex pathways along which hydrocarbon-rich
fluids move upward through the sedimentary column. In the shallow subsurface, seep …

Thick evaporite sequences deposited in saline giant basins are traditionally viewed as
impermeable barriers to fluid flow. This paradigm has recently been challenged by …

Carbon cycling and fluid seepage in marine sediments over the late Quaternary were
investigated at a now-extinct pockmark located in a mega-pockmark field in the SW **sha …