Marine Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Situation, Problems and Prospects for Future Research

By C. Bianchi, C. Morri. 2000

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Oceanography

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Plankton in the open Mediterranean Sea: a review (2009, background): “…Barale et al., 2008) as well as by in situ data (Turley et al., 2000; Christaki et al., 2001), ii) a high diversity compared to its surface and volume (Bianchi and Morri, 2000), and iii) a relatively high number of bioprovinces (sensuLonghurst, 2006), with boundary definition mostly based on the…”
Biodiversity issues for the forthcoming tropical Mediterranean Sea (2007, background): “Lessepsian migration apart, the introductions of exotic species by humans have acted on a time scale of 103 years (Giaccone, 2002): well before the Christian era, Greek sailors travelled perhaps as far as Iceland, the Phoenicians circumnavigated Africa, and Punic merchants possibly reached Macarones”
photoQuad: A dedicated seabed image processing software, and a comparative error analysis of four photoquadrat methods (2012, background): “Overall, there is a growing body of evidence reporting the deterioration of marine habitats and the decline of biodiversity due to human related activities (Bianchi and Morri, 2000; Coll et al., 2010),”
Sea warming and fish distribution: the case of the small pelagic fish, Sardinella aurita, in the western Mediterranean (2006, background): “…that fish and benthic species characteristic of the warm waters of the southernmost parts of the Mediterranean are extending their distribution range, as they are appearing more frequently in the northernmost and colder parts (Francour et al., 1994; Astraldi et al., 1995; Bianchi & Morri, 2000).”
The Mediterranean Sea as a ‘cul‐de‐sac’ for endemic fishes facing climate change (2010, background): “The Mediterranean Sea, an inland sea that comprises only 0.32% of the global oceanic volume, contains 4– 18% of all known marine species (Bianchi & Morri, 2000), and nearly 10% of fishes are endemic to the Mediterranean Sea (Quignard & Tomasini, 2000).”
The Biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: Estimates, Patterns, and Threats (2010, background): “Group-specific biodiversity estimates for the Mediterranean marine biota through time [16,19,68], including the current estimate (estimate 2009), and online free-access global databases [71,77–81].”
Climate control on the long‐term anomalous changes of zooplankton communities in the Northwestern Mediterranean (2007, background): “Moreover, the Mediterranean basin plays not only a key role as a heat reservoir and source of moisture for surrounding land areas (MEDCLIVAR, 2004), but it also supports high marine biodiversity (Bianchi & Morri, 2000).”
New record of the alien seagrass Halophila stipulacea (Hydrocharitaceae) in the western Mediterranean: a further clue to changing Mediterranean Sea biogeography (2009, background): “To the north, P. gibbesi has apparently stopped at the Pontine Islands (Russo & Villani, 2004), that is in the same biogeographic sector as Palinuro ( Bianchi & Morri, 2000 ) and close to the ‘14°C divide’, the claimed northern boundary for Mediterranean warm-water species (Bianchi, 2007) (Figure 3)”
Hidden Mediterranean biodiversity: molecular evidence for a cryptic species complex within the reef building vermetid gastropod Dendropoma petraeum (Mollusca: Caenogastropoda) (2009, background): “The reconstruction of the palaeogeography of Dendropoma in the NE Atlantic and Mediterranean would greatly benefit from molecular dating in a phylogenetic framework.”
Invading the Mediterranean Sea: biodiversity patterns shaped by human activities (2014, background): “Herein, we focused on species richness as an indicator of biodiversity, as is common in the ecological literature (May, 1995; Bianchi and Morri, 2000).”
Seascape biodiversity patterns along the Mediterranean and the Black Sea: lessons from the biogeography of benthic polychaetes (2002, background): “Bianchi & Mori (2000) give a rough estimation of the marine macroscopic species living in this sea, which ranges between 4 and 18% of the total of world marine species.”
Overview of the conservation status of the marine fishes of the Mediterranean Sea (2011, background): “Although endemism of fishes in the Mediterranean Sea was earlier thought to account for 20 – 30% of all Mediterranean marine fish species ( Bianchi and Morri 2000 , Briand and Giuliano 2007 ) , only 74 ( ~14% ) of the 519 species and subspecies assessed for the IUCN Red List are here considered to…”
Structural Degradation in Mediterranean Sea Food Webs: Testing Ecological Hypotheses Using Stochastic and Mass-Balance Modelling (2008, background): “This suggests that both areas share similar biological and ecological features, and that both areas have been exposed to similar levels of anthropogenic impacts in the past (for example, Bianchi and Morri 2000; Coll 2006; Ferretti and others 2008).”