The scientific watches for October and November have been uploaded to this website. Here are the recent publications they highlight:
November:
- Populations of commercial molluscs within a highly biodiverse marine protected area on the Northern Alboran Sea (W Mediterranean): Preferential habitats, seasonal dynamics and importance for artisanal fisheries
- Sessile macrobenthos (Ochrophyta) drives seasonal change of meiofaunal community structure on temperate rocky reefs
- Geospatial modelling and map analysis allowed measuring regression of the upper limit of Posidonia oceanica seagrass meadows under human pressure
- Divergent responses to warming of two common co-occurring Mediterranean bryozoans
- Comparing commercial, recreational and illegal coastal fishery catches and their economic values: A survey from the southern Mediterranean Sea
- Integrating distribution models and habitat classification maps into marine protected area planning
- Native predators control the population of an invasive crab in no-take marine protected areas
- Pollution status of marine protected areas worldwide and the consequent toxic effects are unknow
- Exploring the relationships between marine protected areas and invasive fish in the world’s most invaded area
- Light and shade in marine conservation across European and contiguous seas
October:
- Recreational boating in the Portofino Marine Protected Area (MPA), Italy: Characterization and analysis in the last decade (2006-2012) and some considerations on management
- Postglacial range expansion shaped the spatial genetic structure in a marine habitat-forming species: Implications for conservation plans in the Eastern Adriatic Sea
- Small-Scale fisheries at an Albanian Marine Protected Area: a collaborative attitude is associated with higher catches
- Placogorgia coronata first documented record in Italian waters: Use of trawl bycatch to unveil vulnerable deep-sea ecosystems
- Multiscale seascape habitat of necto-benthic littoral species, application to the study of the dusky grouper habitat shift throughout ontogeny
- The park never born: Outcome of a quarter of a century of inaction on the sea-floor integrity of a proposed but not established Marine Protected Area
- Warming impacts on early life stages increase the vulnerability and delay the population recovery of a long-lived habitat-forming macroalga
- Spatial congruence between multiple stressors in the Mediterranean Sea may reduce its resilience to climate impacts
- Marine plastics threaten giant Atlantic Marine Protected Areas
- Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean