Coastal tourism is a growing industry sector in the Mediterranean Basin. This and the other
human activities occurring along the coastline share space and resources, leading to …

Bottom fishing such as trawling and dredging may pose serious risks to the seabed and
benthic habitats, calling for a quantitative assessment method to evaluate the impact and …

Coastal systems are among the most studied, most vulnerable, and economically most
important ecosystems on Earth; nevertheless, little attention has been paid, so far, to the …

Biological traits analysis (BTA) provides insight into causes and consequences of
biodiversity change that cannot be achieved using traditional taxonomic approaches …

Abstract Thousands of Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been designated around the
globe to conserve benthic habitats, following the adoption of Convention on Biodiversity …

The use of functional information of taxa is a promising approach to uncover the underlying
mechanism of ecosystem functioning. We used biological trait analysis (BTA) to assess the …

The effects of multiple natural and anthropogenic stressors on the functional trait
composition and diversity of marine macrobenthic communities in Laoshan Bay were …

The Arctic Barents Sea is experiencing a record temperature increase, a poleward shift in
the distributions of commercial fish stocks, and invasion by the snow crab, a new predator …

In coastal waters the identification of sources, trajectories and deposition sites of marine litter
is often hampered by the complex oceanography of shallow shelf seas. We conducted a …

Escalating societal demands placed on the seabed mean there has never been such a
pressing need to align our understanding of the relationship between the physical impact of …