Ocean and coastal ecosystems support life on Earth and many aspects of human well-being.
Covering two-thirds of the planet, the ocean hosts vast biodiversity and modulates the global …

Our current 1.1° C warmer world is already affecting natural and human systems in Europe
(very high confidence1). Since AR5, there has been a substantial increase in detected or …

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 …

This paper presents a review of the state-of-the-art in understanding and quantification of the
Mediterranean heat and mass (ie salt and water) budgets. The budgets are decomposed …

Abstract The Mediterranean Sea has been defined “under siege” because of intense
pressures from multiple human activities; yet there is still insufficient information on the …

Abstract The Mediterranean Large Marine Ecosystem (Med-LME) is a heterogeneous
system that, despite its oligotrophic nature, has high diversity of marine species and high …

Twenty-first century projections for the Mediterranean water properties have been analyzed
using the largest ensemble of regional climate models (RCMs) available up to now, the Med …

Estimates of plastic inputs into the ocean are orders of magnitude larger than what is found
in the surface waters. This can be due to discrepancies in the sources of plastic released …

The projected warming, nutrient decline, changes in net primary production, deoxygenation
and acidification of the global ocean will affect marine ecosystems during the 21st century …

The Mediterranean Sea is now recognized as a hotspot of global change, ranking among
the fastest warming ocean regions. In order to project future plausible scenarios of marine …