Bycatch–a term widely used to refer to part of the catch unintentionally caught during a
fishing operation, in addition to target species, and consisting of the discards and incidental …

Although the different communities distributed in the mesophotic and deep waters play a
fundamental role in the functioning of the marine ecosystems, the assessment of their global …

Here we present an update of the Mediterranean distribution of the lionfish Pterois miles,
based on a comprehensive list of geo-referenced occurrences up to October 2019. New …

Marine litter is an environmental problem of global concern with well-documented impacts
on marine biodiversity and ecosystems. At a global scale, marine litter is mainly composed …

The yellow coral Dendrophyllia cornigera (Lamarck, 1816) is a NE Atlantic-Mediterranean
scleractinian. It is considered a typical hard bottom species, generally reported on …

Cold-water coral mounds are key hot-spots of deep ocean biodiversity and also important
archives of past climatic conditions. Nonetheless, the paleo-oceanographic setting in which …

Deep-sea reef ecosystems are hotspots of biodiversity but are particularly threatened by
seawater warming, because the species that live there have evolved within a narrow thermal …

A widespread population of the coral Dendrophyllia ramea has been revealed southeast of
Syracuse (East Sicily, Italy) at around 75 m depth. Dendrophyllia ramea is an arborescent …

This study reports the first attempt to quantitatively describe a Dendrophyllia ramea
population on the Apollo bank (Ionian Sea), revealed in summer 2021 through a remotely …

Coastal ecosystems are heavily anthropized areas impacted by discharge of chemical
pollutants. We present for the first time the occurrence of a wide number of such chemicals in …