Aquaculture facilities provide a suitable habitat for a wide group of marine species that are
able to colonise and settle on artificial structures. This study aims to determine the …

The increasing deployment of artificial structures into the marine environment is creating
new hard substrates that differ from natural ones in physical and biological aspects …

The Thermaikos Gulf (TG) is a semi-enclosed, river-influenced, marine system situated in the
eastern Mediterranean Sea, sustaining both urban coastal regions and ecologically …

This review attempts to estimate the biodiversity of the macrobenthic communities that
develop on hard bottoms in the Aegean Sea. Literature analysis revealed that 1,171 species …

Factors that promote the introduction and establishment of non-indigenous species (NIS)
within port environments are not completely understood. In the present work the structure of …

The spatial dispersion of zoobenthos from sublittoral hard substrate communities in the
northern part of the Aegean Sea has been studied during summer 1997 and 1998. Material …

The search for alternative live feed for aquaculture stocks has inspired research into marine
amphipods. In this study, the life history of Ceradocus mizani was evaluated to better …

The solitary ascidian Microcosmus sabatieri is a common ecosystem engineering species
on hard bottom sublittoral communities in the Eastern Mediterranean. Peracarida are …

The structure of the “Amphioxus sand” community in Thermaikos Bay was studied over a two-
year period. The examination of the collected 4,767 specimens revealed the presence of …

The mucilage (sea-snot) event during autumn 2020 in the Marmara Sea turned into a major
disaster, carried by winds and currents passing the Çanakkale Strait (Dardanelles), Turkey …