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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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Giuseppe Di Miceli, Marialetizia Ponte, Lucia Dinolfo, Giuseppe Maniaci, Marianna Pipi, Riccardo Gannuscio, Simona Prestigiacomo, Adriana Bonanno and Antonino Di Grigoli
In Sicilian forage systems, the introduction of native self-seeding annual legumes can be beneficial in low-input farming. Intercropping would be a valuable strategy for implementing pasture resources in Sicilian forage systems during late spring. The ai...
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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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Mirko La Iacona, Sara Lombardo, Giovanni Mauromicale, Aurelio Scavo and Gaetano Pandino
The manipulation of allelopathic mechanisms, such as the isolation of plant allelochemicals for bioherbicide production, is currently providing a new tool for weed management methods of reducing or potentially eliminating the use of synthetic herbicides....
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Laura Guimarães, António Paulo Carvalho, Pedro Ribeiro, Cláudia Teixeira, Nuno Silva, André Pereira, João Amorim and Luís Oliva-Teles
Triops longicaudatus is a crustacean typically inhabiting temporary freshwater bodies in regions with a Mediterranean climate. These crustaceans are easily maintained in the laboratory and show a set of biological features that make them good candidates ...
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Alejandro Carmona-Rodríguez, Carlos Antón, Miguel-Ángel Climent, Pedro Garcés, Vicente Montiel and Alfonso A. Ramos-Esplá
The ecological succession has been widely studied by means of biofouling assemblages among different substrates, and mainly targeted in early stages on artificial ones. The present study focuses on biofouling that colonizes carbonated structures, a mater...
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Loredana Stabili, Stefano Piraino and Lucia Rizzo
Marine bioprospecting is a dynamic research field that explores the oceans and their biodiversity as noteworthy sources of new bioactive compounds. Anthozoans are marine animals belonging to the Cnidaria phylum characterized by highly specialized mechano...
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Juan M. Soria, Juan Víctor Molner, Rebeca Pérez-González, Bárbara Alvado, Lucía Vera-Herrera and Susana Romo
The Albufera of Valencia, a Mediterranean coastal lagoon, has been in a turbid state since 1974, with only four episodes of temporary water transparency in spring. Despite its average depth of 1 m and oligohaline waters, excessive turbidity, fish grazing...
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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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Theodora Ntanasi, Dimitrios Savvas, Ioannis Karavidas, Evgenia Anna Papadopoulou, Naem Mazahrirh, Vasileios Fotopoulos, Konstantinos A. Aliferis, Leo Sabatino and Georgia Ntatsi
Soil salinity caused by climate change is a major global issue, especially in regions like the Mediterranean basin. Most commercially cultivated horticultural species, including pepper, are considered to be salt sensitive. However, some underutilized gen...
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