Marine citizen science is emerging with promising opportunities for science, policy and
public but there is still no comprehensive overview of the current state in Europe. Based on …

The diversity of life in the sea is critical to the health of ocean ecosystems that support living
resources and therefore essential to the economic, nutritional, recreational, and health …

Sustained global ocean observations are needed to recognise, understand, and manage
changes in marine biodiversity, resources and habitats, and to implement wise conservation …

Marine and estuarine management requires an excellent understanding of the interacting,
interrelated and interdependent sub-systems comprising ecological, societal and …

The recent development of biological sensors has extended marine plankton studies from
conducting laboratory bench work to in vivo and real-time observations. Flow cytometry …

This paper presents major gaps and challenges for implementing the UN Decade of Ocean
Science for Sustainable Development (2021-2030) in the Mediterranean region. The …

The importance of stakeholder engagement in ocean observation and in particular the
realization of economic and societal benefits is discussed, introducing a number of …

The ocean regulates the exchange, storage of carbon dioxide, plays a key role in global
control of Earth climate and life, absorbs most of the heat excess from greenhouse gas …

In this paper we describe a 50-year (1965–2015) ecological database containing data
collected in the northern Adriatic Sea (NAS) at one of the 25 research parent sites belonging …

Since the adoption of the Habitats and Birds Directives by EU governments, marine Natura
2000 (N2K) sites have been established in the European Mediterranean Sea, creating one …