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Lucia Rizzo and Tomás Vega Fernández
Non-indigenous species (NIS) represent one of the greatest threats to biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, altering invaded habitats, competing with native species, and eventually becoming pests. The Mediterranean Sea is a marine biodiversity hotspot,...
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Yanhong Lin, Faming Huang, Yang Zhang, Qi Wang, Jinliang Huang, Qiuming Chen and Xiongzhi Xue
Planning and zoning of marine areas is a common practice worldwide. In China, marine major function-oriented zoning (MMFOZ) is an effective geographical method for ensuring sustainable marine resource and ecosystems development; however, ecosystem-based ...
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Markos Digenis, Christos Arvanitidis, Thanos Dailianis and Vasilis Gerovasileiou
Although more than 600 marine caves have been recorded so far along the Greek coasts of the Aegean Sea (Eastern Mediterranean), only a few have been systematically studied for their biodiversity. In this study, the benthic communities of six marine caves...
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Stefano Salata, Sila Özkavaf-Senalp and Koray Velibeyoglu
The land-use regulatory framework in Turkey is composed of several hierarchical plans. The Environmental Regulation Plan pursues comprehensive planning management, which ranges between 1/100,000 and 1/25,000 and defines the framework for local master pla...
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Jeffrey W. Short, Harold J. Geiger, Lowell W. Fritz and Jonathan J. Warrenchuk
The Pribilof northern fur seal (Callorhinus ursinus) herd in the eastern Bering Sea has declined by ~70% since the 1970s, for elusive reasons. Competition for pollock (Gadus chalcogramma) with the commercial fishery has been suspected as a contributing f...
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Pasquale Ricci, Elisabetta Manea, Giulia Cipriano, Daniela Cascione, Gianfranco D?Onghia, Maurizio Ingrosso, Carmelo Fanizza, Porzia Maiorano, Angelo Tursi and Roberto Carlucci
Understanding of cetaceans? trophic role and the quantification of their impacts on the food web is a critical task, especially when data on their prey are linked to deep-sea ecosystems, which are often exposed to excessive exploitation of fishery resour...
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Amrtatjuti Vladimirovna Sereda, Yuriy Gennadievich Mikhaylichenko, Petr Yakovlevich Baklanov, Anatoly Nikolaevich Kachur, Andrei Dorofeevich Lappo and Larisa Valentinovna Danilova
Sustainable development of marine resources requires a robust national coastal and ocean policy and harmonization of environmental management systems in areas of overlapping interests among nations. This is becoming increasingly important in the efforts ...
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Heejoong Kang and Chang-Ik Zhang
The ecosystem-based fisheries assessment (EBFA) approach to evaluate four management objectives: sustainability, biodiversity, habitat quality, and socio-economic benefits, has been developed in previous studies. The existing EBFA approach is a risk-base...
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Dewayany Sutrisno, Mulyanto Darmawan, Ati Rahadiati, Muhammad Helmi, Armaiki Yusmur, Mazlan Hashim, Peter Tian-Yuan Shih, Rongjun Qin and Li Zhang
Ecosystem-based adaptation to climate change impacts, such as shoreline retreat, has been promoted at the international, national, and even local levels. However, among scientists, opinions about how to implement it in spatial-planning practices are vari...
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