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Lucrezia Cilenti, Nicola Lago, Antonio Oscar Lillo, Daniel Li Veli, Tommaso Scirocco and Giorgio Mancinelli
The current invasion of the Mediterranean Sea by the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus requires the implementation of effective strategies of control and management. In native areas, the species is highly appreciated as a hard- and soft-shell seafoo...
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Jacob Douek, Giovanni Giallongo, Zoya Harbuzov, Bella S. Galil and Baruch Rinkevich
The rhizostomatid scyphozoan Rhopilema nomadica is one of the most notorious marine invasive species established in the eastern Mediterranean Sea. Using seven microsatellite loci, here, we examined the population genetic structures on 587 individual tiss...
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Jennifer Coston-Guarini, François Charles and Jean-Marc Guarini
An outbreak species exhibits extreme, rapid population fluctuations that can be qualified as discrete events within a continuous dynamic. When outbreaks occur they may appear novel and disconcerting because the limiting factors of their dynamics are not ...
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Aaradh Nepal and Francesco Perono Cacciafoco
During the Bronze Age, the inhabitants of regions of Crete, mainland Greece, and Cyprus inscribed their languages using, among other scripts, a writing system called Linear A. These symbols, mainly characterized by combinations of lines, have, since thei...
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Fabrizio Antonioli, Stefano Furlani, Giorgio Spada, Daniele Melini and Zomenia Zomeni
The Lambousa fishtank, an archaeological structure entirely carved in bedrock, can be easily recognized and measured in the plan on Google Earth (GE). We surveyed in situ this excellent archaeological marker in 2016 through direct measurements using trad...
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Virginia Sciacca, Giuseppe Morello, Laura Beranzoli, Davide Embriaco, Francesco Filiciotto, Giuditta Marinaro, Giorgio Maria Riccobene, Francesco Simeone and Salvatore Viola
The Mediterranean fin whale emits two types of 20-Hz calls, known as ?classic? and ?backbeat?, that can be produced in irregular series or in patterned sequences called songs. The analysis of songs is recognized as a meaningful approach to study baleen w...
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Giuseppe Zappalà and Gabriella Caruso
Coastal marine monitoring is a specialized field of research requiring the acquisition of long-term datasets regarding the main physico-chemical and biological variables that characterize the aquatic environments as a key strategy to depict the environme...
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Raúl Periáñez and Carmen Cortés
The transport of radionuclides in the western Mediterranean Sea resulting from hypothetical accidents in a coastal nuclear power plant, and in a vessel with nuclear power or transporting radioactive material, was assessed with a Lagrangian model develope...
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Martina Canessa, Ilaria Amedeo, Giorgio Bavestrello, Pier Panzalis and Egidio Trainito
Mass mortality events and anthropogenic impacts affecting Paramuricea clavata (Risso, 1826) have been increasingly documented during the last decades. These impacts have enhanced the settling of epibiont organisms on injured colonies. This epibiosis was ...
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Annalisa Azzola, Virginia Picchio, Valentina Asnaghi, Carlo Nike Bianchi, Carla Morri, Alice Oprandi and Monica Montefalcone
Climate change is affecting rocky reef ecosystems in a multitude of ways at global scale. During summer 2018, the rocky reef communities of Portofino Marine Protected Area (MPA) (NW Mediterranean) were affected by thermal anomalies, a mucilaginous event,...
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