At 726 the number of recorded multicellular non indigenous species (NIS) in the Mediterranean Sea is far higher than in other European Seas. Of these, 614 have …
The number of alien species in the Mediterranean Sea is increasing rapidly, but few attempts have been made to evaluate impacts on specific habitat types. The present study …
Satellite data show a steady increase, in the last decades, of the surface temperature (upper few millimetres of the water surface) of the Mediterranean Sea. Reports of mass mortalities …
This Collective Article presents information about 27 taxa belonging to five Phyla (one Ochrophyta, one Cnidaria, three Arthropoda, two Mollusca and twenty Chordata) and …
Cnidarians play a crucial role in the marine ecosystem and are abundant in Moroccan waters, although their diversity remains poorly understood. This study aimed to assess the …
Hydroids, one of the dominant components of the zoobenthic communities, share comparable growth patterns with higher plants because of their modular body organization …
Mesozooplankton and gelatinous zooplankton communities in Chesapeake Bay (CB) and the northern Adriatic Sea (NAS) have been subject to similar stressors over recent decades …
The new hydrozoa species Porpita porpita Linnaeus, 1758 was observed stranded along the southern shore of Lattakia city, the eastern Mediterranean Sea, for the first time on 23 …
The Stylasteridae, commonly known as lace corals, is a family of colonial calcifying hydrozoans mostly inhabiting deep waters. Stylasterids show a cosmopolitan distribution …