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Scientific Publications

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

Source

Springer Nature - Marine Biology

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

Source

npj Ocean Sustainability

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

Source

Springer Nature, Marine Biodiversity

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

Source

npj Ocean Sustainability

Hierarchical modeling of Baltic Sea phytoplankton reveals increasing cyanobacteria dominance

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

Published

2025

Source

Limnology and Oceanography

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

Source

Aquatic Toxicology Volume 290

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

Source

Journal of Environmental Management

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

Source

Ecological Solutions and Evidence

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

Source

BMC Zoology volume 10

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

Source

Journal of Plankton Research, Volume 47, Issue 5

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

Published

2025

Source

MDPI, Remote Sensing

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

Source

Regional Studies in Marine Science

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

Source

Global Change Biology

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

Source

Ecography

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

Queirós, A.M., ten Brink, T., Bas, M. et al.

Published

2025

Source

npj Ocean Sustainability

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

Source

Science of The Total Environment

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

Source

Marine Environmental Research

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

Source

Biological Conservation

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

Source

Nature Communications

Modularity buffers the spread of spatial perturbations in macroalgal networks

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

Published

2025

Source

Current Biology, Cell Press

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

Published

2025

Source

Nature Communications, Springer Nature

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

Published

2024

Source

Global Change Biology

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

Maria Protopapa and Soultana Zervoudaki

Published

2025

Source

MDPI

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

Source

Limnology and Oceanography

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

Source

Conservation Physiology

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

Adrien Chevallier, Elise Banton, Fabien Moullec et al.

Published

2025

Source

Sustainability Science

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

Published

2025

Source

ScienceDirect

Metabolic traits and thresholds to inform marine ecological conservation and restoration

Mar Bosch-Belmar and Francesco Paolo Mancuso

Published

2025

Source

Journal of Applied Ecology

Marine Heatwaves in the Mediterranean Sea: A Literature Review

Sofia Darmaraki et al.

Published

2024

Source

Mediterranean Marine Science

Habitat loss and small-scale fishery: A controversial issue

Chiara Silvestrini et al.

Published

2024

Source

Marine Ecology

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

K. Kalloniati et al.

Published

2023

Source

scientific reports

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

Shahar Chaikin et al.

Published

2024

Source

Nature Ecology & Evolution

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

Jeroen Steenbeek et al.

Published

2024

Source

Earth's Future

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

Source

Applied Microbiology

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

Mar Bosch-Belmar et al.

Published

2024

Source

Biology

Cumulative Impacts of Oil Pollution, Ocean Warming, and Coastal Freshening on the Feeding of Arctic Copepods

Sinja Rist et al.

Published

2024

Source

Environmental Science and Technology

Marine protected areas promote stability of reef fish communities under climate warming

Benedetti-Cecchi, L et al.

Published

2024

Source

Nature Communications

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This project receives funding from the European Union’s Horizon Europe Research and Innovation Programme under grant agreement No 101060072.

Funding period:

Mar 2023 - Feb 2027

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