Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs), including mangrove forests, seagrass meadows and tidal
marshes, store carbon and provide co-benefits such as coastal protection and fisheries …

Seagrass meadows are considered to be among the most important marine ecosystems,
with regard to both ecology and biodiversity and for the services they provide. Seven …

The semi-enclosed nature of the Mediterranean Sea, together with its smaller inertia due to
the relative short residence time of its water masses, make it highly reactive to external …

Posidonia oceanica is a marine angiosperm endemic from the Mediterranean. Despite their
protection, its meadows are regressing. The economic valuation of ecosystem services (ES) …

We propose here a multivariate index based on structural and functional attributes of the
Posidonia oceanica ecosystem (Posidonia oceanica multivariate index: POMI) to assess the …

This paper describes the PREI (Posidonia oceanica Rapid Easy Index), a method used to
assess the ecological status of seawater along Mediterranean French coasts. The PREI was …

Biodiversity is undergoing rapid and worrying changes, partially driven by anthropogenic
activities. Human impacts and climate change (eg, increasing temperature and ocean …

The endemic Mediterranean seagrass Posidonia oceanica is a key species in coastal
waters and it is widely employed as an ideal biological indicator for assessing the quality of …

Biotic indices, which reflect the quality of the environment, are widely used in the marine
realm. Sometimes, key species or ecosystem engineers are selected for this purpose. This is …

This paper provides a synthesis of the EU project MedVeg addressing the fate of nutrients
released from fish farming in the Mediterranean with particular focus on the endemic …