The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats

Additions to the annotated list of marine alien biota in the Mediterranean with special emphasis on Foraminifera and Parasites

(2013) A. ZENETOS et al.   MEDITERRANEAN MARINE SCIENCE

Seasonal changes of bacterial and archaeal communities in the dark ocean: Evidence from the Mediterranean Sea

(2011) Christian Winter et al.   LIMNOLOGY AND OCEANOGRAPHY

Exploring Benthic Biodiversity Patterns and Hot Spots on European Margin Slopes

(2011) Roberto Danovaro et al.   OCEANOGRAPHY

Invasive rats and seabirds after 2,000 years of an unwanted coexistence on Mediterranean islands

(2009) L. Ruffino et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Decadal changes in a NW Mediterranean Sea food web in relation to fishing exploitation

(2009) Marta Coll et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Leptofauchea coralligena(Faucheaceae, Rhodophyta), a new species from the Mediterranean Sea

(2009) Conxi Rodríguez-Prieto et al.   EUROPEAN JOURNAL OF PHYCOLOGY

Reevaluating sponge diversity and distribution in the Mediterranean Sea

(2009) Eleni Voultsiadou   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Fuzzy diel patterns in catchability of deep-water species on the continental margin

(2009) N. Bahamon et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

The distribution of megabenthic, invertebrate epifauna in the Balearic Basin (western Mediterranean) between 400 and 2300 m: Environmental gradients influencing assemblages composition and biomass trends

(2009) Joan E. Cartes et al.   JOURNAL OF SEA RESEARCH

The influence of light availability and predatory behavior of the decapod crustaceanNephrops norvegicuson the activity rhythms of continental margin prey decapods

(2009) Jacopo Aguzzi et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

a-, β-, γ-, δ- and ε-diversity of deep-sea nematodes in canyons and open slopes of Northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean margins

(2009) R Danovaro et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Catastrophic flood of the Mediterranean after the Messinian salinity crisis

(2009) D. Garcia-Castellanos et al.   NATURE

Buying Years to Extinction: Is Compensatory Mitigation for Marine Bycatch a Sufficient Conservation Measure for Long-Lived Seabirds?

(2009) José Manuel Igual et al.   PLoS One

New Insights into the Diversity of Marine Picoeukaryotes

(2009) Fabrice Not et al.   PLoS One

Biological patterns and ecological indicators for Mediterranean fish and crustaceans below 1,000 m: a review

(2009) F. Sardà et al.   REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES

Climate change effects on a miniature ocean: the highly diverse, highly impacted Mediterranean Sea

(2009) Christophe Lejeusne et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Management Effectiveness of the World's Marine Fisheries

(2009) Camilo Mora et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Increasing southern invasion enhances congruence between endemic and exotic Mediterranean fish fauna

(2008) Frida Ben Rais Lasram et al.   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Taking stock: inventory of alien species in the Mediterranean sea

(2008) B. S. Galil   BIOLOGICAL INVASIONS

Chylocladia wynnei sp. nov. (Champiaceae, Rhodophyta) from the Mediterranean Sea

(2008) Giuseppina Alongi et al.   BOTANICA MARINA

Loss of Large Predatory Sharks from the Mediterranean Sea

(2008) FRANCESCO FERRETTI et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Exponential Decline of Deep-Sea Ecosystem Functioning Linked to Benthic Biodiversity Loss

(2008) Roberto Danovaro et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Unveiling new microbial eukaryotes in the surface ocean

(2008) Ramon Massana et al.   CURRENT OPINION IN MICROBIOLOGY

Live foraminifera from the open slope between Grand Rhône and Petit Rhône Canyons (Gulf of Lions, NW Mediterranean)

(2008) C. Fontanier et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART I-OCEANOGRAPHIC RESEARCH PAPERS

Prokaryote diversity and viral production in deep-sea sediments and seamounts

(2008) Roberto Danovaro et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Organic matter composition, metazoan meiofauna and nematode biodiversity in Mediterranean deep-sea sediments

(2008) Antonio Pusceddu et al.   DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Deep-sea nematode biodiversity in the Mediterranean basin: testing for longitudinal, bathymetric and energetic gradients

(2008) Roberto Danovaro et al.   ECOGRAPHY

Food-web dynamics in the South Catalan Sea ecosystem (NW Mediterranean) for 1978–2003

(2008) Marta Coll et al.   ECOLOGICAL MODELLING

Structural Degradation in Mediterranean Sea Food Webs: Testing Ecological Hypotheses Using Stochastic and Mass-Balance Modelling

(2008) Marta Coll et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Mass mortality in Northwestern Mediterranean rocky benthic communities: effects of the 2003 heat wave

(2008) J. GARRABOU et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Diel and seasonal variation of a molluscan taxocoenosis associated with a Zostera marina bed in southern Spain (Alboran Sea)

(2008) Jose L. Rueda et al.   HELGOLAND MARINE RESEARCH

Alien species in the Mediterranean Sea—which, when, where, why?

(2008) B. S. Galil   HYDROBIOLOGIA

Hydroids (Cnidaria: Hydrozoa) from the Levant Sea (mainly Lebanon), with emphasis on alien species

(2008) Carla Morri et al.   JOURNAL OF THE MARINE BIOLOGICAL ASSOCIATION OF THE UNITED KINGDOM

Ecology and conservation of common bottlenose dolphinsTursiops truncatusin the Mediterranean Sea

(2008) GIOVANNI BEARZI et al.   MAMMAL REVIEW

Mediterranean commercial sponges: over 5000 years of natural history and cultural heritage

(2008) Roberto Pronzato et al.   Marine Ecology-An Evolutionary Perspective

Ecological correlates of dispersal success of Lessepsian fishes

(2008) F Ben Rais Lasram et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Novel index for quantification of ecosystem effects of fishing as removal of secondary production

(2008) S Libralato et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Fish diversity patterns in the Mediterranean Sea: deviations from a mid-domain model

(2008) F Ben Rais Lasram et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Volcanic carbon dioxide vents show ecosystem effects of ocean acidification

(2008) Jason M. Hall-Spencer et al.   NATURE

The endemic Mediterranean yelkouan shearwater Puffinus yelkouan: distribution, threats and a plea for more data

(2008) Karen Bourgeois et al.   ORYX

Neanderthal exploitation of marine mammals in Gibraltar

(2008) C. B. Stringer et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

A latitudinal diversity gradient in planktonic marine bacteria

(2008) J. A. Fuhrman et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

OCEAN SCIENCE: Marine Calcifiers in a High-CO2 Ocean

(2008) V. J. Fabry   SCIENCE

Impending collapse of bluefin tuna in the northeast Atlantic and Mediterranean

(2008) Brian R. MacKenzie et al.   Conservation Letters

Report of a New Mediterranean Monk Seal (Monachus monachus) Breeding Colony in the Aegean Sea, Greece

(2008) Panagiotis Dendrinos et al.   AQUATIC MAMMALS

Overfishing and the disappearance of short-beaked common dolphins from western Greece

(2008) G Bearzi et al.   Endangered Species Research

The Caulerpa racemosa invasion: A critical review

(2007) Judith Klein et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN