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Unraveling the combined effects of sociopolitical and climate change scenarios for an artisanal small-scale fishery in the Western Mediterranean

Ecology and Society, 2022
Worldwide climate change will influence the spatial distribution and status of exploited fish stocks, often in uncertain ways with cascading effects on the social-ecological systems depending on them.
Henrike Rambo, Andres Ospina-Alvarez, Ignacio A. Catalán, Francesc Maynou, Vanessa Stelzenmüller   +4 more
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Flight of the dragons: a global review of migration in Odonata

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Insects are the most abundant and ecologically important animal migrants. Yet, we know relatively little about the patterns and processes underlying insect migration. Dragonflies (Anisoptera) and damselflies (Zygoptera) comprise the ancient insect order Odonata, whose ancestors were the first organisms to fly on Earth.
Johanna S.U. Hedlund, Myles Menz, Jason W. Chapman, Alexander Hayward   +3 more
wiley   +1 more source

Counting cases, conserving species: addressing highly pathogenic avian influenza in wildlife

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Highly pathogenic avian influenza (HPAI) has become a critical threat to wildlife, shifting from a seasonal epizootic to a persistent, year‐round panzootic with global consequences. Here, we summarise the origin, evolutionary mechanisms, and expanding host range of the current H5N1 virus (clade 2.3.4.4b) and assess its impact on wildlife. Over
Ulrich Knief, Sandra Bouwhuis, Anja Globig, Anne Günther, Wouter Courtens   +4 more
wiley   +1 more source

The analysis of convergence in ecological indicators: An application to the Mediterranean fisheries [PDF]

Ecological Indicators, 2017
Ecological indicators are increasingly used to examine the evolution of natural ecosystems and the impacts of human activities. Assessing their trends to develop comparative analyses is essential. We introduce the analysis of convergence, a novel approach to evaluate the dynamic and trends of ecological indicators and predict their behavior in the long-
Pennino, M. Grazia, Bellido, Jose Maria, Conesa, David, Coll, Marta, Tortosa-Ausina, Emili   +4 more
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Dynamics of biotic resistance to plant invasions

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Biotic resistance, the reduction in invasion success caused by native communities, plays an important role in the long‐term dynamics of biological invasions. A large body of empirical research on biotic resistance has accumulated since the last comprehensive review on the subject 20 years ago, enabling us to achieve a refined understanding of ...
Christine S. Sheppard, Joshua I. Brian, Wayne Dawson, Petr Dostál, Franz Essl, Michal Gruntman, Tina Heger, Mark van Kleunen, Mialy Razanajatovo, Lena C. Reimann, Frank M. Schurr, Montserrat Vilà, Florencia A. Yannelli, Marina Golivets   +13 more
wiley   +1 more source

Protocol for extraction and analysis of microplastics in freshwater, sediment, and fish samples

STAR Protocols
Summary: Microplastic pollution threatens aquatic ecosystems and food webs. Here, we present a protocol for extracting microplastics from freshwater, sediment, and fish digestive system samples.
Tuncay Vural, Soner Çetinkaya, Vedat Yeğen, Selman Şapcıoğlu, Sedat Gündoğdu   +4 more
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BOTTOM TRAWL SIZE SELECTIVITY METHODS IN THE TURKEY [PDF]

Scientific Papers Series : Management, Economic Engineering in Agriculture and Rural Development, 2017
Trawling is an important fishing method used by the fishermen in the Turkey. Bottom trawling fisheries in this part of Mediterranean are essentially multispecies.
Yaşar ÖZVAROL, Yıldız BOLAT
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Spatio-temporal trends in diversity of demersal fish assemblages in the Mediterranean

Scientia Marina, 2019
The high species richness, coupled with high proportion of endemism, makes the Mediterranean one of the world’s ‘biodiversity hotspots’. However, the continuous increase in fisheries in the last few decades has led to the overexploitation of their main ...
M. Teresa Farriols, Francesc Ordines, Pierluigi Carbonara, Loredana Casciaro, Manfredi Di Lorenzo, Antonio Esteban, Cristina Follesa, Cristina García-Ruiz, Igor Isajlovic, Angélique Jadaud, Alessandro Ligas, Chiara Manfredi, Bojan Marceta, Panagiota Peristeraki, Nedo Vrgoc, Enric Massutí   +15 more
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Review of the fauna associated with wild and farmed mussels and oysters in the Mediterranean

Biological Reviews, EarlyView.
ABSTRACT Mussels and oysters are important ecosystem engineers which modify the physical and chemical characteristics of the environment and create habitats that support highly diverse associated communities. In the Mediterranean Sea, the native Mediterranean mussel Mytilus galloprovincialis and the European flat oyster Ostrea edulis, together the ...
Barbara Mikac, Marina Antonia Colangelo, Alessandro Tarullo, Marco Abbiati, Eugenio Fossi, Federica Costantini   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Stock boundaries for fisheries assessment and management in the Mediterranean: the Balearic Islands as a case study

Scientia Marina, 2012
The stock concept plays a pivotal role in fisheries assessment and management. Stocks are defined according to biological, geographical, economic or socio-political factors.
Antoni Quetglas, Beatriz Guijarro, Francesc Ordines, Enric Massutí   +3 more
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