Luis Gil de Sola

Instituto Español de Oceanografia | IEO · Centro Oceanográfico de Málaga. Pesquerías demersales Mediterráneo

Fish body condition and growth are two interrelated traits closely associated with species life history and fitness, whose trade-off can ultimately impact population dynamics albeit seldom empirically demonstrated. They can intricately affect survival rates, which are particularly relevant for species under exploitation. Using individual spatiotemp...

A complex geological history, a critical geographical location, and the existence of permeable biogeographical barriers at both ends of its longitudinal range, the Strait of Gibraltar and the hydrographic front between Almería and Oran, have shaped the Alboran Sea as a biogeographical entity at the crossroads between the Atlantic Ocean and the Medi...

Abstract The Mediterranean Large Elasmobranchs Monitoring (MEDLEM) database contains more than 3,000 records (with more than 4,000 individuals) of large elasmobranch species from 21 different countries around the Mediterranean and Black seas, observed from 1666 to 2017. The principal species included in the archive are the devil ray (1,868 individu...

The Mediterranean Large Elasmobranchs Monitoring (MEDLEM) database contains over 3000 records (more than 4000 individuals) of large elasmobranch species from 20 different countries around the Mediterranean and Black seas, observed from 1666 to 2017. The main species included in the archive are the devil fish (1 813 individuals), the basking shark (...

Previous analyses of marine fish species richness based on presence‐absence data have shown changes with latitude and average species size, but little is known about the underlying processes. To elucidate these processes we use metabolic, neutral and descriptive statistical models to analyse how richness responds to maximum species length, fish abu...

Most studies on European hake focus on the recruitment process and nursery areas, whereas the information is comparatively limited on the ecology of the juvenile stage (ca. second year of life)-the one most exploited by the Medi-terranean trawl fisheries. Using information of the MEDITS programme, we provide a spatial and temporal assessment of the...

Long fisheries time series allow the review of baselines and inform our knowledge of past events that have conditioned the recent history of the stocks. In this study, we investigated trends in fisheries landings data for the most representative Atlantic and Mediterranean demersal fisheries off the Spanish Iberian Peninsula and the Balearic Islands...

The large-scale distribution pattern of megafauna communities along the Mediterranean middle slope was explored. The study was conducted between 500 and 800 m depth where deep-water fishery occurs. Although community studies carried out deeper than 500 m are partly available for some geographic areas, few large-scale comparative studies have been c...

A new approach to recruitment overfishing diagnosis is presented. We hypothesize that condition of recruits should increase when recruitment failures are caused by fishing activity. This would be a consequence of the increase in trophic resource availability, because the population is smaller than that which the ecosystem could support. Temporal se...

Most studies on European hake focus on the recruitment process and nursery areas, whereas the information is comparatively limited on the ecology of the juvenile stage (ca. second year of life)-the one most exploited by the Medi-terranean trawl fisheries. Using information of the MEDITS programme, we provide a spatial and temporal assessment of the...

Most studies on European hake focus on the recruitment process and nursery areas while the information is comparatively limited on the ecology of juvenile stage (ca. second year of life) − the most exploited by the Mediterranean trawl fisheries. Using information of the MEDITS program, we provide a spatial and temporal assessment of the influence o...

During the MEDITS Project, the quantity of sampling stations (2188 hauls), and the number of species listed to be inhabiting the Mediterranean Sea (269 during the sampling period 1994-2012), display significant variations in distribution (42 chorotypes and 13 patterns of gradual variation in time and space) and in terms of abundance (num/km2) per y...

Europe's Blue Growth strategy promotes the intensification of human activities at sea and increases the environmental risk such as the decline of the provision of key ecosystem services and potential conflicts among human activities. The fishing sector, in the Alboran Sea, is economically and culturally one of the most important and relies on overe...

We analyzed and discussed the types of distribution, existing for 117 species of demersal fishes distributed along the North Alborán Sea, Gulf of Vera, and Balearic Sea (Alicante, Ebro Delta and Blanes coast). Data from 19 consecutive years (1994-2012) surveys, with similar sampling protocol, were used to characterise the demersal fishes assemblage...

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Europe has a long tradition of exploiting marine fishes and is promoting marine economic activity through its Blue Growth strategy. This increase in anthropogenic pressure, along with climate change, threatens the biodiversity of fishes and food security. Here, we examine the conservation status of 1,020 species of European marine fishes and identi...

The life history of a species is determined by trade-offs between growth, survival and reproduction to maximize fitness in a given environment. Following a theoretical model, we investigate whether the composition of marine fish communities can be understood in terms of a set of life-history strategies and whether the prevalence of the strategies f...

Marine conservation often prioritizes measures based on ecosystem diversity, missing important information on the size and structure of communities such as that provided by body size-spectra (SS). While most studies have focussed on temporal or spatial patterns of SS, there is no research investigating their spatial heterogeneity, which is a key co...

Temporal fluctuation in fish stocks is a natural property of marine populations, which is mainly driven by the intrinsic demographic properties of populations and externally shaped by environmental factors, as well as human impact in harvested species. Understanding such fluctuations is crucial for improving the assessment of exploited marine resou...

The distribution pattern of demersal fish species inhabiting off northern Alboran sea and Golfo de Vera at depths ranging 200 and 800 m has been studied. For this purpose it has been analyzed the results from the MEDITS oceanographic survey series from 1994 to 2008, carried out in the study area in spring by Instituto Español de Oceanografía. The s...

Aim | The European Red List is a review of the conservation status of European species according to IUCN regional Red Listing guidelines. It identifies those species that are threatened with extinction at the regional level, so that appropriate conservation action can be taken to improve their status. This Red List publication summarises results fo...

Aim | The European Red List is a review of the conservation status of European species according to IUCN regional Red Listing guidelines. It identifies those species that are threatened with extinction at the regional level, so that appropriate conservation action can be taken to improve their status. This Red List publication summarises results fo...

Aim | The European Red List is a review of the conservation status of European species according to IUCN regional Red Listing guidelines. It identifies those species that are threatened with extinction at the regional level, so that appropriate conservation action can be taken to improve their status. This Red List publication summarises results fo...

Body size has been widely recognized as a key factor determining community structure in ecosystems. We analysed size diversity patterns of phytoplankton, zooplankton and fish assemblages in 13 data sets from freshwater and marine sites and found only weak relationships, indicating that predation and competition are not the only determinants of size...

This study describes the four main demersal fish assemblages identified along the continental shelf and slope (30-800 m depth) of the northern Alboran Sea (western Mediterranean), based on the analysis of the MEDITS (International bottom trawl survey in the Mediterranean) 12-year data series. We collected 186 fish species belonging to three classes...

Body size has been widely recognised as a key factor determining community structure in ecosystems. We analysed size diversity patterns of phytoplankton, zoo-plankton and fish assemblages in 13 data sets from freshwater and marine sites with the aim to assess whether there is a general trend in the effect of predation and resource competition on bo...

It is presented the analyses on the MEDLEM (Mediterranean Large Elasmobranchs Monitoring) database that, up to now, contains more than 2000 records and over 2700 individuals of large elasmobranchs in the Mediterranean coming from 20 different countries. The main species represented in the archive are devil rays (736 individuals), basking sharks (ab...

The Mediterranean Large Elasmobranchs Monitoring (MEDLEM) database contains more than 2000 records (n>3000 individuals) of large elasmobranchs species from 20 different countries around the Mediterranean Sea caught or observed from 1666 to 2014. The main species represented in the archive are devil rays (736 individuals), basking sharks (682 indivi...

Large-scale studies focused on the diversity of continental slope ecosystems are still rare, usually restricted to a limited number of diversity indices and mainly based on the empirical comparison of heterogeneous local data sets. In contrast, we investigate large-scale fish diversity on the basis of multiple diversity indices and using 1454 stand...

Selection of the set of indices considered: properties and complementarity/redundancy with others existing measures. (DOCX)

List of the species considered. (DOCX)

La interpretación de los términos que contiene dicho descriptor se desarrolló en el Grupo de Trabajo 6 de la DMEM, organizado por el JRC y el ICES, y se encuentra recogida en su informe conjunto (Rice et al., 2010), desarrollados también en una publicación científica paralela (Rice et al, 2012).

La Directiva Marco sobre la Estrategia Marina (2008/56/EC) y la Ley de Protección del Medio Marino (Ley 41/2010) consideran las basuras marinas como uno de los factores que pueden afectar negativamente el buen estado ambiental marino. La Directiva requiere el desarrollo de criterios y metodologías para evaluar el buen estado ambiental del medio amb...

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...

We compiled long-term data (from commercial landings and scientific surveys) on the density (D) and the depth distribution of the deep-living shrimp Aristaeomorpha foliacea in the Balearic Basin (western Mediterranean) from the 1950s to 2010. We analyzed these data in relation to changes in temperature (T) and salinity (S) of the intermediate water...

Comparative multispecies studies allow contrasting the effect of past and present oceanographic processes on phylogeographic patterns. In the present study, a fragment of the COI gene was analyzed in seven decapod crustacean species from five families and with different bathymetric distributions. A total of 769 individuals were sampled along the At...