Little doubt is left that climate change is underway, strongly affecting the Earth's biodiversity.
Some of the greatest challenges ahead concern the marine realm, but it is unclear to what …

Although recent articles state that jellyfish populations are increasing, most available
evidence shows that jellyfish abundances fluctuate with climatic cycles. Reports of …

Ocean ecosystems have responded and will continue to respond to climate changes of
different rates, magnitudes, and durations (virtually certain). Human societies depend on …

Potential for, and limits to, adaptation to environmental changes are critical for resilience and
risk mitigation. The Mediterranean basin is a mosaic of biodiversity‐rich ecosystems long …

Human populations have been concentrated along and exploiting the coastal zones for
millennia. Of regions with the highest human impacts on the oceans, 6 of the top 10 have …

The Northern Hemisphere has been warmer since 1980 than at any other time during the
last 2000years. The observed increase in temperature has been generally higher in …

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 …

Stable isotopes of carbon and nitrogen were used to test the hypothesis that stomach
content analysis has systematically overlooked the consumption of gelatinous zooplankton …

This book offers an up-to-date overview of the latest scientific findings in regional climate
research on the Baltic Sea basin. This includes climate changes in the recent past, climate …

An examination of a wide spectrum of hydro-meteorological and biogeochemical records in
the Black Sea from the previous century possesses a robust climatic signature at interannual …