Sarah Faulwetter

University of Patras | UP · Laboratory of Zoology

The Messinia region, located in the South – West of the Peloponnese, Greece, is an ecologically valuable area comprising of several important coastal habitats (including coastal lagoons, seagrass meadows, and Mediterranean rhodolith beds) eliciting its inclusion in the Natura 2000 network. Land-based anthropogenic pressures are likely to influence...

The project includes: - Field surveys for butterfly and grasshopper monitoring, - Special focus on rare, threatened and/or endemic species, - Assessment of the effects of grazing on species habitats, - Conservation efforts. The project is being conducted in collaboration with the Management Unit of Chelmos-Vouraikos National Park and Northern Pel...

Mediterranean ports are sources of significant economic activity and at the same time they act as recipients of considerable anthropogenic disturbance and pollution. Polluted and low-in-oxygen sediments can negatively impact benthic biodiversity and favour recruitment of opportunistic or invasive species. Macrobenthic communities are an important c...

Phyllodocida is a clade of errantiate annelids characterized by having ventral sensory palps, anterior enlarged cirri, axial muscular proboscis, compound chaetae (if present) with a single ligament, and of lacking dorsolateral folds. Members of most families date back to the Carboniferous, although the earliest fossil was dated from the Devonian. P...

Phyllodocida is a clade of errantiate annelids characterized by having ventral sensory palps, anterior enlarged cirri, axial muscular proboscis, compound chaetae (if present) with a single ligament, and of lacking dorsolateral folds. Members of most families date back to the Carboniferous, although the earliest fossil was dated from the Devonian. P...

This data are the observations of Moths in Greece in the National Moth Week 2020 from the inaturalist project: https://www.inaturalist.org/projects/national-moth-week-2020-greece

Micro-computed tomography (micro-CT or microtomography) is a non-destructive imaging technique using X-rays which allows the digitisation of an object in three dimensions. The ability of micro-CT imaging to visualise both internal and external features of an object, without destroying the specimen, makes the technique ideal for the digitisation of...

The recently increased interest in marine trait-based studies highlights one general demand – the access to standardized, reference-based trait information. This demand holds especially true for polar regions, where the gathering of ecological information is still challenging. The Arctic Traits Database is a freely accessible online repository (htt...

This is the code to create and host a web-based database for the entry, management and dissemination of biological traits data (see https://univie.ac.at/arctictraits) for an example of a running instance. The web interface is written in php and javascript, the database runs in MySQL. Instructions for installation are contained in the README file.

Subtidal hard bottoms are of particular scientific and economic value as they are highly productive systems. They are less well studied compared with soft bottoms, as they often require manual sample collection via scuba diving. Although a multitude of sampling devices is available for soft bottoms, only a few are suitable for hard substrates, and...

The recently increased interest in marine trait-based studies highlights one general demand-the access to standardized, reference-based trait information. This demand holds especially true for polar regions, where the 10 gathering of ecological information is still challenging. The Arctic Traits Database is a freely accessible online repository (ht...

Background: The last annotated checklist of marine polychaetes in Greece was published in 2001. Since then, global taxonomic progress, combined with many new species records for Greece, required a thorough review of the taxonomic, nomenclatural and biogeographic status of the national species list. This checklist revises the status of all extant p...

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Micro-CT imaging elucidates jaw and pharynx structure in 14 nominal taxa belonging to Chrysopetalinae, Dysponetinae and Calamyzinae (Chrysopetalidae: Annelida). Systematic evaluation of chrysopetalid jaw form in each taxon is used to compare inter-generic relationships within and between each subfamily and with other polychaete families possessing...

The increased absorption of atmospheric CO2 by the ocean affects carbonate chemistry and calcification rates of marine organisms. The impacts of low pH and seawater warming were investigated for the intertidal gastropods Nassarius nitidus and Columbella rustica. The combined effect of reduced pH (7.6) and increased temperature (25 �C) was studied a...

Co-occurring global change drivers, such as ocean warming and acidification, can have large impacts on the behaviour, physiology, and health of marine organisms. However, whilst early-life stages are thought to be most sensitive to these impacts, little is known about the individual level processes by which such impacts take place. Here, using meso...

The aim of this study was to attempt to fill current knowledge gaps on midlittoral Mediterranean biodiversity at local and regional scales, by using benthic polychaetes as a model taxon. Two different data sets were analysed: (i) a quantitative data set from the two Natural Geography in Shore Areas (NaGISA) study sites in Crete and (ii) a qualitati...

Co-occurring global change drivers, such as ocean warming and acidification, can have large impacts on the behaviour, physiology and health of marine organisms. However, whilst early life stages are thought to be most sensitive to these impacts, little is known about the individual level processes by which such impacts take place. Here, using mesoc...

This article describes the digitization of a series of historical datasets based οn the reports of the 1908–1910 Danish Oceanographical Expeditions to the Mediterranean and adjacent seas. All station and sampling metadata as well as biodiversity data regarding calcareous rhodophytes, pelagic polychaetes, and fish (families Engraulidae and Clupeidae...

Thor - "Introductory table"

Thor - "Clupeiformes"

Thor - "Pelagic polychaetes"

Thor - "Rhodophytes"

Data from Fishermen of Colliure

Background Citizen Science (CS) as a term implies a great deal of approaches and scopes involving many different fields of science. The number of the relevant projects globally has been increased significantly in the recent years. Large scale ecological questions can be answered only through extended observation networks and CS projects can support...

In the frame of the COST ACTION ‘EMBOS’ (Development and implementation of a pan-European Marine Biodiversity Observatory System), coverage of intertidal macroalgae was estimated at a range of marine stations along the European coastline (Subarctic, Baltic, Atlantic, Mediterranean). Based on these data, we tested whether patterns in macroalgal dive...

Examining how variability in population abundance and distribution is allotted among different spatial scales can inform of processes that are likely to generate that variability. Results of studies dealing with scale issues in marine benthic communities suggest that variability is concentrated at small spatial scales (from tens of centimetres to f...

The LifeWatchGreece Research Infrastructure (LWG RI) stores biodiversity data andinformation from all biology-related disciplines derived from the Greek territory (or theMediterranean Sea for the marine data). The aim of LWG RI is to facilitate data sharing and dissemination under harmonised standards in order to maximize the socio-economicbenefits...

Background Parallel data manipulation using R has previously been addressed by members of the R community, however most of these studies produce ad hoc solutions that are not readily available to the average R user. Our targeted users, ranging from the expert ecologist/microbiologists to computational biologists, often experience difficulties in fi...

Background During recent years, X-ray microtomography (micro-CT) has seen an increasing use in biological research areas, such as functional morphology, taxonomy, evolutionary biology and developmental research. Micro-CT is a technology which uses X-rays to create sub-micron resolution images of external and internal features of specimens. These im...

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Coastal ecosystems are highly complex and driven by multiple environmental factors. To date we lack scientific evidence for the relative contribution of natural and anthropogenic drivers for the majority of marine habitats in order to adequately assess the role of different stressors across the European seas. Such relationship can be investigated b...

Within the COST action EMBOS (European Marine Biodiversity Observatory System) the degree and variation of the diversity and densities of soft-bottom communities from the lower intertidal or the shallow subtidal was measured at 28 marine sites along the European coastline (Baltic, Atlantic, Mediterranean) using jointly agreed and harmonized protoco...

The objective of Workpackage 4 of the European Marine Observation and Data network (EMODnet) is to fill spatial and temporal gaps in European marine species occurrence data availability by carrying out data archaeology and rescue activities. To this end, a workshop was organised in the Hellenic Center for Marine Research Crete (HCMR), Heraklion Cre...

The objective of Workpackage 4 of the European Marine Observation and Data network (EMODnet) is to fill spatial and temporal gaps in European marine species occurrence data availability by carrying out data archaeology and rescue activities. To this end, a workshop was organised in the Hellenic Center for Marine Research Crete (HCMR), Heraklion Cre...

During a benthic survey of a Marine Conservation Zone located on the Skerries Bank in the English Channel off the south-west coast of England, three specimens of Streptosyllis nunezi Faulwetter et al., 2008 were found. This is the second ever record of the species after its original description, and the first record from waters around the U.K. and...

LifeWatch Greece web and mobile application for the MicroCT

LifeWatchGreece Research Infrastructure (LWG RI), provides electronic services (e-Services) and virtual labs (vLabs) to facilitate both the data contributors and the users. Services like the R-vLab, micro-CT vLab and Genetics are heavily computer power demanding and EGI-LW Competence Centre may both offer unlimited computational capacity and storag...

LifeWatchGreece Research Infrastructure (LWG RI), provides electronic services (e-Services) and virtual labs (vLabs) to facilitate both the data contributors and the users. Services like the R-vLab, micro-CT vLab and Genetics are heavily computer power demanding and EGI-LW Competence Centre may both offer unlimited computational capacity and storag...

The number of the Citizen Science projects has been constantly rising the latest years, all over the world. New tools for disseminating information and fast and easy internet access are the reasons why citizen scientists are now contributing more and more to projects on environmental monitoring or conservation biology and ecology. Three citizen sci...

Aims Climate change is currently one of the major threats for the world's oceans and organisms. Its consequences include changes in subocean circulation, ocean warming and sea level rise, as well as impacts on ice cover, fresh water runoff , salinity, oxygen levels and acidification (Nelleman et al. 2008). The ocean is a sink of atmospheric CO2, in...

En Mer Méditerranée, le coralligène et les herbiers de Posidonies, qui sont de loin les plus étudiés, sont les habitats les plus importants du point de vue biodiversité côtière. Ils sont le milieu principal produisant complexité structurelle et biodiversité. Les récifs coralligènes produisent des biens (ressources alimentaires et matière première,...

The coralligenous is a typical Mediterranean marine habitat and hosts the highest concentration of biodiversity of this sea. Paradoxically, unlike Posidonia meadows, it is poorly studied. Like the famous tropical coral reefs, it is a complex biogenic habitat, based on encrusting red algae (numerous metazoan phyla also participate to bio-constructio...

The association of organisms to their environments is a key issue in exploring biodiversity patterns. This knowledge has traditionally been scattered, but textual descriptions of taxa and their habitats are now being consolidated in centralized resources. However, structured annotations are needed to facilitate large-scale analyses. Therefore, we d...

Understanding long-term, ecosystem-level impacts of climate change is challenging because experimental research frequently focuses on short-term, individual-level impacts in isolation. We address this shortcoming first through an inter-disciplinary ensemble of novel experimental techniques to investigate the impacts of 14-month exposure to ocean ac...

The association of organisms to their environments is a key issue in exploring biodiversity patterns. This knowledge has traditionally been scattered, but textual descriptions of taxa and their habitats are now being consolidated in centralized resources. However, structured annotations are needed to facilitate large-scale analyses. Therefore, we d...

A new genus and species of Serpulidae (Annelida, Polychaeta) from the Caribbean Sea. Turbocavus secretus (gen. nov. and sp. nov.) is described from shallow hard substrates (0.5-3 m) in wind-sheltered bays of St. John, U.S. Virgin Islands and Curacao, as well as from diving depths (46-49 m) around Bonaire (Leeward Antilles), Caribbean Sea. The new t...

Species and genetic diversity are often found to co-vary since they are influenced by external factors in similar ways. In this paper, we analyse the genetic differences of the abundant polychaete Hermodice carunculata (Pallas, 1776) during two successive years at two locations in northern Crete (Aegean Sea) and compare them to other populations in...

The loss of species is known to have negative impacts on the integrity of ecosystems, but the details of this relationship are still far from being fully understood. This study investigates how the distribution patterns of polychaete species and their associated biological traits patterns in six Mediterranean coastal lagoons change under computatio...

The study of ecosystem functioning – the role which organisms play in an ecosystem – is becoming increasingly important in marine ecological research. The functional structure of a community can be represented by a set of functional traits assigned to behavioural, reproductive and morphological characteristics. The collection of these traits from t...

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The use of micro-CT scanners in the study of anatomy and functional morphology of marine invertebrates is becoming more common. The advantages and disadvantages of this methodology for the study of the internal anatomy of polychaetes are discussed. Soft-bodied invertebrates such as polychaetes pose some specific problems. It can be difficult to gai...