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Continental islands are often sites of low diversity and endemism, as well as important areas for the protection of bird populations, especially seabirds. On Isla Observatorio and the Año Nuevo Islands, in the Southwestern Atlantic, the latest assessment of avifauna dates from more than 20 years ago. In this study, we use a combination of methods t...
Maërl habitats are of great biological value due to their high biodiversity and productivity,
but they are also very fragile. The subaqueous dune field on the continental shelf off the
Mar Menor exhibits sediment characteristics that favour the presence of maërl habitats.
However, this seabed is altered by two kinds of disturbance: biogenic disturb...
Multibeam swath bathymetry, sediment and benthos samples (including both epifauna and
infauna) and submarine images were explored to characterize benthic communities in a
subaqueous dune field on the Mar Menor middle shelf (western Mediterranean). The dunes
are 2–5 m high and spaced 400–1100 m apart, with a predominant NE-SW orientation
oblique to...
Benthic communities on shallow sedimentary bottoms in the western Mediterranean can play a crucial role in the development, maintenance and evolution of bedforms. This chapter presents an overview of the most characteristic benthic communities in shallow waters classified by the type of substrate: coarse bottoms, sandy bottoms and fine-grained bott...
The Mar Menor (135 km2) is one of the most important hypersaline coastal lagoons in the Western Mediterranean Sea, its bottoms were originally colonized by monospecific meadows of the seagrass C. nodosa. However, since the 1970’s, drastic hydrographic changes caused by various human activities has seen the expansion of a number of species common in...
The Mar Menor (135 km2 ) is one of the most important hypersaline coastal lagoons in the Western Mediterranean Sea, its bottoms were originally colonized by monospecific meadows of the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa. However, since the 1970’s, drastic hydrographic changes caused by various human activities has seen the expansion of a number of species c...
The Mar Menor (135 km2 ) is one of the most important hypersaline coastal lagoons in the Western Mediterranean Sea, its bottoms were originally colonized by monospecific meadows of the seagrass Cymodocea nodosa. However, since the 1970’s, drastic hydrographic changes caused by various human activities has seen the expansion of a number of species c...
The ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi, a species native to estuaries and coastal regions of the western Atlantic Ocean, was first introduced into
the Black Sea in the early 1980s, where it negatively affected zooplankton biodiversity and biomass, and commercial fisheries. This invasive
ctenophore was first reported along the Spanish Mediterranean coast...
La Decisión de la Comisión Europea (2010/477/UE), con el ánimo de elaborar unos enfoques coherentes entre los distintos estados, se establecen una serie de criterios y normas metodológicas aplicables a la evaluación del buen estado ambiental de las aguas marinas. En la resolución se establece además que estos criterios deberán aplicarse para evalua...
Rhizostoma pulmo is one of the most abundant scyphomedusae along the Mediterranean coasts. To understand changes in the population densities
of the medusa stage and its relationship with the benthic stage, we describe all developmental stages from the life cycle
of R. pulmo, from the scyphistoma stage to young medusae reared in the laboratory. Matu...
The life cycle of the deep-sea octopus Pteroctopus tetracirrhus was studied from monthly samples obtained throughout the year in different areas of the western Mediterranean (mainly around the Balearic Islands and along the coast of the Iberian Peninsula). A total of 373 individuals (205 females, 168 males) were analyzed; females ranged from 4.5 to...
Different works appearing during the last decade show that the western Mediterranean has suffered a temperature and salinity increase during the 20th century. Most of these works analyze long-term trends in Levantine Intermediate Water (LIW) and Western Mediterranean Deep Water (WMDW); those dealing with changes in shallow and coastal waters are ve...
A total of 310 individuals (124 males, 185 females, 1 indeterminate) of the octopod Octopus salutii caught throughout the year by bottom trawlers from 25 to 800m depth in the western Mediterranean were analysed to study some general aspects of its biology. Octopus sizes ranged from 4.0 to 13.0cm ML and 3.5 to 16.5cm ML in males and females, respect...
