Scientific Publications

The host–microbiome dimension of ecological regime shifts

Luca Rindi, Alexander H. McGrath, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

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2026

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Trends in Ecology & Evolution - Elsevier

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Kelp forests modulate fish community dynamics and responses to ocean warming

Bianca Reis, Francisco Arenas, Isabel Sousa-Pinto, João N. Franco

Published

2026

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Journal of Ecology - British Ecological Society

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Goal-oriented modelling reveals the paths to future successful conservation and exploitation in the Norwegian and Barents Seas

Etienne Rieu, Benjamin Planque, Ulf Ove Lindstrøm

Published

2025

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ESS

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Epibionts and Epiphytes in Seagrass Habitats: A Global Analysis of Their Ecological Roles

Nicoletta Marsiglia, Mar Bosch-Belmar, Francesco Paolo Mancuso, Gianluca Sarà

Published

2025

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MDPI Sci Volume 7 Issue 2

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Global Warming and the Spread of the Introduced Jellyfish Cassiopea andromeda: Thermal Niche and Habitat Suitability in the Mediterranean Sea

Lara M. Fumarola, Valentina Leoni, Guillaume Marchessaux, Gianluca Sarà, Stefano Piraino, Mar Bosch-Belmar

Published

2025

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Global Change Biology Volume 31

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eDNA Metabarcoding Applications Across Italian Marine Coastal Ecosystems: An Overview

Alice Tagliabue, Giulia Furfaro, Andrea Galimberti, Antonia Bruno, Lorenzo Zane, Alberto Pallavicini, Stefano Piraino

Published

2025

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Environmental DNA Volume 7

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Novelty, variability, and resilience: Exploring adaptive cycles in a marine ecosystem under pressure

Yosr Ammar, Riikka Puntila-Dodd, Maciej T. Tomczak, Magnus Nyström & Thorsten Blenckner

Published

2025

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AMBIO Volume 54

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Wild or Reared? Cassiopea andromeda Jellyfish as a Potential Biofactory

Stefania De Domenico, Andrea Toso, Gianluca De Rinaldis, Marta Mammone, Lara M Fumarola, Stefano Piraino, Antonella Leone

Published

2025

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MDPI

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Small fish biomass in the North Sea is far greater than previously estimated

Bram Parmentier , Geert Aarts , Sophie Brasseur , Georg H Engelhard , Eva Immler , Frank van Langevelde , Ingrid Tulp , Rob Witbaard

Published

2025

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ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 82, Issue 6

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Citizen science substantiates jellyfish occurrence in the Mediterranean Sea

Serena Zampardi, Priscilla Licandro, Giacomo Milisenda, Danilo Scannella, Stefano Piraino & Ferdinando Boero

Published

2025

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Scientific Reports 15

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Combined effects of a pharmaceutical pollutant, gemfibrozil, and abiotic stressors (warming and air exposure) on cellular stress responses of the blue mussels Mytilus edulis

Halina Falfushynska, Eugene P. Sokolov, Inna M. Sokolova

Published

2025

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Elsevier – Aquatic Toxicology Volume 279

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The intensity of a field simulated marine heat wave differentially modulates the transcriptome expression of Posidonia oceanica from warm and cold environments

Patrizia Stipcich, Giulia Ceccherelli, Lázaro Marín-Guirao, Jessica Pazzaglia, Alex Santillán-Sarmiento & Gabriele Procaccini

Published

2024

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Springer Nature Marine Biology Volume 171

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Making Ecosystem Modeling Operational–A Novel Distributed Execution Framework to Systematically Explore Ecological Responses to Divergent Climate Trajectories

Jeroen Steenbeek, Pablo Ortega, Raffaele Bernardello, Villy Christensen, Marta Coll, Eleftheria Exarchou, Alba Fuster-Alonso, Ryan Heneghan, Laura Julià Melis, Maria Grazia Pennino, David Rivas, Noel Keenlyside

Published

2024

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Earth's Future Volume 3

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Innovative and practical tools for monitoring and assessing biodiversity status and impacts of multiple human pressures in marine systems

Angel Borja, Torsten Berg, Hege Gundersen, Anders Gjørwad Hagen, Kasper Hancke, Samuli Korpinen, Miguel C. Leal, Tiziana Luisetti, Iratxe Menchaca, Ciaran Murray, GerJan Piet, Sophie Pitois, Naiara Rodríguez-Ezpeleta, James E. Sample, Elizabeth Talbot & María C. Uyarra

Published

2024

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Springer Nature – Environmental Monitoring and Assessment Volume 196

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Assessing the resilience of the coralline macroalga Ellisolandia elongata in response to a prolonged low tide

Rosa Donadio, Ermenegilda Vitale, Giulia Costanzo, Luca Licciardi, Erika Fabbrizzi, Simonetta Fraschetti,Carmen Arena

Published

2025

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Elsevier – Environmental Research Volume 277

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Hybrid Projections Improve Prediction of Distributional Shifts of Invasive and Native Seaweeds Under Climate Change

Sandra Hernández, F. Arenas, I. Haberle, Laura Rodríguez, Francisco Carreño, Brezo Martínez

Published

2026

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Journal of Biogeography 1

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Intraspecific differences in the effects of salinity and light on growth and prymnesin cell quota in Prymnesium parvum

Fredrik Ryderheim, Elizabeth M. Mudge, Andrea Budiša, Kevin J. Flynn, Jack Gillies, Thomas Ostenfeld, Larsen, Juel Hansen

Published

2025

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Harmful Algae

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Potential backfiring effects of Marine Protected Areas on kelp herbivory

B. Reis, F. Arenas, Á. Sánchez-Gallego, A. F. S. Marques, I. Sousa-Pinto & J. N. Franco

Published

2024

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Scientific Reports 14

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Assessing the invasion risk of the cnidaria Blackfordia virginica Mayer, 1910: a threat to the Baltic Sea ecosystem?

Baptiste Serandour, Boris Leroy, Thorsten Blenckner, Felix Mittermayer, Catriona
Clemmesen, Joana Cruz, Antoine Nowaczyk, Monika Winder

Published

2025

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Biological Invasions, 2025, 27

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A Confidence Scoring Procedure for eDNA Metabarcoding Records and Its Application to a Global Marine Fish Dataset

Andrea Polanco F., Romane Rozanski, Virginie Marques, Martin Helmkampf, David Mouillot, Stéphanie Manel, Camille Albouy, Oscar Puebla, Loïc Pellissier

Published

2025

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https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/full/10.1002/edn3.70077?msockid=3bbcb6625f866a7a3616a3de5e2a6b74

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Arctic and Subarctic marine heatwaves and their ecological impacts

Laurene Pecuchet, Bayoumy Mohamed, Alexander Hayward,
Aida Alvera-Azcárate, Jakob Dörr, Karen Filbee-Dexter,
Katherine J. Kuletz, Kelly Luis, Manfredi Manizza,
Charles E. Miller, Peter A. U. Staehr, Marysia Szymkowiak and
Thomas Wernberg5,

Published

2025

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Frontiers

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The opportunity for climate action through climate-smart Marine Spatial Planning

Ana M. Queirós, Talya ten Brink, Maria Bas, Christopher J. Sweeting, Sian McGuinness, Hugh Edwards, Elizabeth Talbot, Patrick Berg Sørdahl, Christian Lønborg, Shayna R. Deecker-Simon, Michael Elliott, Rafael Sardá, Jose A. Fernades-Salvador, Christina Pretty, Riku Varjopuro, Elina A. Virtanen, Elena Gissi, Katherine Yates, Andrea Morf, Catarina Frazão-Santos, Inne Withouck, Matthew Frost, Marta Coll, Kira Gee & Caitriona nic Aonghusa

Published

2025

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npj Ocean Sustainability

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How the seagrass Posidonia oceanica flowering will benefit from climate change

Patrizia Stipcich, Ivan Guala, Gabriella La Manna, Mariangela Moro Merella, Arianna Pansini, Riccardo Vargiu, Simonetta Fraschetti, Giulia Ceccherelli

Published

2024

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Marine Pollution Bulletin

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Global drifters: The ecological role of non-native macroalgae as beach wrack subsidies

Iván F. Rodil, Filipa Bessa, Alexandra Baeta, Francisco Arenas

Published

2025

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Elsevier – Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

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Multi-model approach for statistical downscaling and bias correction of Earth system model outputs for marine ecosystem impact applications

Cecilie Hansen (handling editor), Ricardo Oliveros-Ramos , Yunne-Jai Shin , Dimitri Gutierrez , Verena M Trenkel

Published

2025

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ICES Journal of Marine Science, Volume 82

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Posidonia oceanica leaf bleaching: does it affect the plant photoprotective mechanisms?

Patrizia Stipcich, Carmen Arena, Giulia Ceccherelli, Rosa Donadio, Carlos Jimenez, Vasilis Resaikos, Ermenegilda Vitale, Simonetta Fraschetti

Published

2025

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Environmental Research Volume 284

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Spawning is accompanied by increased thermal performance in blue mussels

Katharina Alter, Maria Constenla, Francesc Padrós, Inna M. Sokolova, Ana Born-Torrijos

Published

2025

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Journal of Thermal Biology

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Thermal window of exercise performance of the ecosystem engineer Lanice conchilega

Nienke Zwaferink, Paula de la Barra, Katharina Alter

Published

2026

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Biology Open

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Beyond the 30x30 target: Science-informed marine protected area networks outperform random and opportunistic designs

Abello Clea, Ernande Bruno Orcid, Moullec Fabien, Barrier Nicolas, Pita-Vaca Ignacio, Shin Yunne-Jai

Published

2025

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Springer Nature

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An Integrated Global-To-Regional Scale Workflow for Simulating Climate Change Impacts on Marine Ecosystems

Kelly Ortega-Cisneros, Denisse Fierros-Arcos, Jeroen Steenbeek et

Published

2025

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Earth's Future, Volume 13, Issue 2

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Beyond biodiversity: the role of Paramuricea clavata forests in shaping taxonomic and functional diversity

Alberto Colletti, Luca Licciardi, Erika Fabbrizzi, Antonia Chiarore, Sara De Benedictis, Marco Munari, Simone Maria Santo Musumeci, Chiara Silvestrini, Patrizia Stipcich & Simonetta Fraschetti

Published

2025

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Scientific Reports 15

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High resolution data reveal fundamental steps and turns in animal movements

Richard M. Gunner, Rory P. Wilson, Jeroen Steenbeck et all

Published

2026

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Ecological Monographs – Volume 96

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Zooming in on the summer 2024 mucilage outbreak in the northern Adriatic: Shifts in microbial abundances and organic matter dynamics

Andrea Budiša, Niki Simonović, Paolo Paliaga, Mirjana Najdek, Irena Ciglenečki

Published

2026

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Marine Pollution Bulletin

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Seasonal exposure alters climate change vulnerability estimates of marine species

Miguel Pinto, Juan Bueno-Pardo, João Nuno Monteiro, Pedro Sousa, Vânia Baptista, Joana Cruz, Marta Albo-Puigserver, Miguel Gaspar, Ana B. Barbosa, Filipe Martinho, Maria Alexandra Teodósio, Martinho Marta-Almeida, Francisco Leitão

Published

2026

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Journal of Environmental Management - Science Direct

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Social factors drive climate risk in traditional fisheries

Oluwakemi B. Dada, Haritz Ayarza, Alba Domínguez, Diego Salgueiro-Otero, Elena Ojea & Juan Bueno-Pardo

Published

2026

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Regional Environmental Change - Springer Nature

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Combined effects of an antidepressant (fluoxetine) and hypoxia on Mytilus edulis reproduction and metabolism

Eugénie T.R. Dereuder, Denis Benito, Stefan Timm, Kathrin Fisch, Stefan Otto, Gregor Rehder, Maren Ortiz-Zarragoitia, Inna M. Sokolova

Published

2026

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Environmental Pollution - Science Direct

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Coupling ecological concepts with an ocean-colour model: inversion modelling

Sun, X., Brewin, R. J. W., Sathyendranath, S., Dall’Olmo, G., Antoine, D., Barlow, R., Bracher, A., Kheireddine, M., Li, M., Pitarch, J., Raitsos, D. E., Shen, F., Tilstone, G. H., Vellucci, V., and Zhang, Y.

Published

2026

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Frontier

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Disentangling the effects of resource level and temperature dependence on the performance of fish in different guilds

Bass Dye, Myron A.Peck, Karen E van de Wolfshaar, Anieke van Leeuwen

Published

2026

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Conservation Physiology

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Grazing preferences of Sarpa salpa on temperate habitat-forming macroalgae

Jonas de Azevedo, Francisco Arenas, Aldo Barreiro, Joao Franco

Published

2026

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Aquatic Botany

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Rising herbivory pressure of Sarpa salpa and the emerging threat to Southern European marine forests

J. de Azevedo, J.N. Franco, M. Dolbeth, H.S. Meyer, A. Barreiro, E.A. Salas-Leitón,
F. Arenas

Published

2026

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Elsevier Marine Environmental Research

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Functional and taxonomic diversity of intertidal macroalgae communities from a climate refugia hotspot

Marta Martins, Martin Lindegren, Hugo Sainz Meyer, Oscar Babe, Harold Casalis, Antoni Vivó-Pons, Francisco Arenas & Marina Dolbeth

Published

2026

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Springer Nature - Marine Biology

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Towards climate-ready marine protected areas: challenges and strategic pathways

Gregory Fuchs, Nico Stelljes, Fenja Kroos, Cordula Scherer, Christian Lønborg, Barbara Bauer, Eléonore Cambra, Elena Gissi, Giuliana Estefania Cortez Gallegos & Myron A. Peck

Published

2026

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npj Ocean Sustainability

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Towards a broader perspective on marine biodiversity change

Helmut Hillebrand, Iliana B. Baums, Kingsly-Chuo C. Beng, Jan-Claas Dajka, Andrea Franke, Dorothee Hodapp, Silke Laakmann, Soli Levi, Arlie McCarthy, Sebastian Neun, Anthea Oestreicher, Nils Rädecker, Solomon Sebuliba, Mike Smykala, Maren Striebel, Anaïs K. Tallon & Anika Happe

Published

2025

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Springer Nature, Marine Biodiversity

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Five key opportunities to enhance the effectiveness of area-based marine conservation

R. R. E. Stanley, A. Abad-Uribarren, A. Belackova, A. Belgrano, U. Bergström, K. Boerder, T. Blenckner, A. Colaço, A. Himes-Cornell, B. Horta e Costa, J. Jacquemont, L. H. Jurrius, R. Langton, T. Noble-James, M. Ohanna, E. M. Olsen, E. M. Rubidge, E. C. E. Sacre, E. V. Sheehan, M. Sköld, V. Stelzenmüller, D. P. Tittensor, T. C. Vallina, S. Villasante & J. Claudet

Published

2025

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npj Ocean Sustainability

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Hierarchical modeling of Baltic Sea phytoplankton reveals increasing cyanobacteria dominance

James Andrew de Haast, Aleksandra M. Lewandowska, Janne Soininen

Published

2025

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Limnology and Oceanography

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Combined impacts of a lipid lowering drug, gemfibrozil, and temperature on bioenergetics and digestive gland function of a marine bivalve Mytilus edulis

Inna M. Sokolova, Halina Falfushynska, Eugene P. Sokolov, Esther Blanco-Rayón, Xabier Lekube,
Ionan Marigómez

Published

2025

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Aquatic Toxicology Volume 290

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Small-scale fishery as a driver of habitat loss in marine protected areas

Chiara Silvestrini, Alessandro Ciccolella, Paolo D'Ambrosio, Francesco de Franco, Luciana Muscogiuri, Simonetta Fraschetti

Published

2025

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Journal of Environmental Management

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Operational perspectives for biodiversity indicators

Helmut Hillebrand, Jan-Claas Dajka, Maurits Halbach, Anika Happe, Ralf Röchert, Ralf Seppelt, Josef Settele, Markus Weitere, Marten Winter, Yves Zinngrebe, Dorothee Hodapp

Published

2025

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Ecological Solutions and Evidence

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The physiological response of the Arctic key species Polar cod, Boreogadus saida, to hypoxia in a warming ocean: critical oxygen levels and swimming performance

Sarah Kempf, Carolin Julie Neven, Alexander Timpe, Félix P. Leiva, Brad Seibel & Felix Christopher Mark

Published

2025

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BMC Zoology volume 10

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Effects of crude oil and high salinity on eggs and early naupliar stages of the copepod Calanus hyperboreus

Iliana Vasiliki Ntinou, Sinja Rist, Sofie Rask, Martin Lindegren, Torkel Gissel Nielsen, Øystein Varpe

Published

2025

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Journal of Plankton Research, Volume 47, Issue 5

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Remotely Sensing Phytoplankton Size Structure in the Mediterranean Sea: Insights from In Situ Data and Temperature-Corrected Abundance-Based Models

John A. Gittings, Eleni Livanou, Xuerong Sun, Robert J. W. Brewin, Stella Psarra, Manolis Mandalakis, Alexandra Peltekis, Annalisa Di Cicco, Vittorio E. Brando and Dionysios E. Raitsos

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2025

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MDPI, Remote Sensing

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Comparative assessment of pelagic/benthic microalgae in the oligotrophic continental shelf of Heraklion Bay, Eastern Mediterranean: A pigments-based chemotaxonomic analysis

Ben Möller, Eleni Livanou, Stella Psarra, Panayota Koulouri, Costas Dounas, Ana Rotter, Manolis Mandalakis

Published

2025

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Regional Studies in Marine Science

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Synthesis of Population Trends Reveals Seascape-Wide Reorganisation of Biodiversity From Microalgae to Birds

Anika Happe and Kasper J. Meijer, Britas Klemens Eriksson, Helmut Hillebrand

Published

2025

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Global Change Biology

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Scale-dependent effects of biodiversity and stability on marine ecosystem dynamics

Louise C. Flensborg, Marcel Montanyès, Antoni Vivó Pons, Fernanda Carolina Da Silva, Martin Lindegren

Published

2025

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Ecography

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Not only corals: seagrass bleaching in the eastern Mediterranean

Stipcich, P., Arena, C., Ceccherelli, G., Donadio, R., Jimenez, C., La Manna, G., ... & Fraschetti, S.

Published

2025

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Science of The Total Environment

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Diel-cycling hypoxia and hypercapnia interact with the physiological and redox response of the bivalve Mytilus edulis to heat-wave

Dereuder, E. T. R., Otto, S., Rehder, G., & Sokolova, I. M.

Published

2025

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Marine Environmental Research

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Using dark diversity to disentangle the effects of protection and habitat quality on species diversity

Gavriel T, Azzurro E, Benedetti-Cecchi L, Bertocci I, Claudet J, Di Franco A, Guidetti P, Kleitou P, Kletou D, Malamud S, Micheli F, Mintrone C, Sala E, Salingre S, Savva I, Yahel R, Belmaker J.

Published

2025

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Biological Conservation

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Projected loss of brown macroalgae and seagrasses with global environmental change

Federica Manca, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Corey J. A. Bradshaw, Mar Cabeza, Camilla Gustafsson, Alf M. Norkko, Tomas V. Roslin, David N. Thomas, Lydia White & Giovanni Strona

Published

2024

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Nature Communications

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Modularity buffers the spread of spatial perturbations in macroalgal networks

Caterina Mintrone, Luca Rindi, Iacopo Bertocci, Elena Maggi, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

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2025

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Current Biology, Cell Press

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Legacies of temperature fluctuations promote stability in marine biofilm communities

Luca Rindi, Jianyu He, Mara Miculan, Matteo Dell’Acqua, Mario Enrico Pè & Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi

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2025

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Nature Communications, Springer Nature

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Multidecadal changes in coastal benthic species composition and ecosystem functioning occur independently of temperature-driven community shifts

Phoebe Armitage, Michael T. Burrows, James E. V. Rimmer, Andrew J. Blight, David M. Paterson

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2024

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Global Change Biology

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Unraveling Zooplankton Trophic Dynamics: Insights from Stable Isotope Analysis in the Eastern Mediterranean (Aegean, Cretan and Ionian Seas)

Maria Protopapa and Soultana Zervoudaki

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2025

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MDPI

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Multiple global change factors and the long-term dynamics of harmful
algal blooms in the North Sea

Karen M. Brandenburg, Julian Merder, Andrea Budisa, Anne Marie Power, Catharina J. M. Philippart, Anna M. Michalak, Tim J. van den Broek, Dedmer B. van de Waal

Published

2025

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Limnology and Oceanography

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Determining physiological responses of mussels (Mytilus edulis) to hypoxia by combining multiple sensor techniques

Emily Adria Peterson, Marinus Cornelis Keur, Michael Yeboah, Thomas van de Grootevheen, Luke Moth, Pauline Kamermans, Tinka Murk, Myron A Peck, Edwin Foekema

Published

2025

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Conservation Physiology

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Participatory downscaling of global SSP–RCP scenarios to local fisheries social–ecological systems

Adrien Chevallier, Elise Banton, Fabien Moullec et al.

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2025

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Sustainability Science

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Ecopath modelling Unravels the food web of the Gulf of Corinth, a deep Mediterranean important marine Mammal area

Nikolaos Raptis, Georgia Papantoniou, Dionysios E. Raitsos, Dimitrios Damalas, Konstantinos Tsagarakis

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2025

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ScienceDirect

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Metabolic traits and thresholds to inform marine ecological conservation and restoration

Mar Bosch-Belmar and Francesco Paolo Mancuso

Published

2025

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Journal of Applied Ecology

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Marine Heatwaves in the Mediterranean Sea: A Literature Review

Sofia Darmaraki et al.

Published

2024

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Mediterranean Marine Science

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Habitat loss and small-scale fishery: A controversial issue

Chiara Silvestrini et al.

Published

2024

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Marine Ecology

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Long-term warming and human-induced plankton shifts at a coastal Eastern Mediterranean site

K. Kalloniati et al.

Published

2023

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scientific reports

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Marine fishes experiencing high-velocity range shifts may not be climate change winners

Shahar Chaikin et al.

Published

2024

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Nature Ecology & Evolution

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Mapping Selected Emergent Marine Toxin-Producing Organisms Using Historical Samples with Two Methods (Biosensors and Real-Time PCR): A Comparison of Resolution

Gerardo Mengs et al.

Published

2024

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Applied Microbiology

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Effect of Acute Thermal Stress Exposure on Ecophysiological Traits of the Mediterranean Sponge Chondrilla nucula: Implications for Climate Change

Mar Bosch-Belmar et al.

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2024

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Biology