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| Kellerhttps://w3.ifremer.fr/archimer-admin/author.jsp#, Stefanie; Bartolino, Valerio; Hidalgo, Manuel; Bitetto, Isabella; Casciaro, Loredana; Cuccu, Danila; Esteban, Antonio; Garcia, Cristina; Garofalo, Germana; Josephides, Marios; Jadaud, Angelique; Lefkaditou, Evgenia; Maiorano, Porzia; Manfredi, Chiara; Marceta, Bojan; Massut, Enric; Micallef, Reno; Peristeraki, Panagiota; Relini, Giulio; Sartor, Paolo; Spedicato, Maria Teresa; Tserpes, George; Quetglas, Antoni. |
| Species diversity is widely recognized as an important trait of ecosystems’ functioning and resilience. Understanding the causes of diversity patterns and their interaction with the environmental conditions is essential in order to effectively assess and preserve existing diversity. While diversity patterns of most recurrent groups such as fish are commonly studied, other important taxa such as cephalopods have received less attention. In this work we present spatio-temporal trends of cephalopod diversity across the entire Mediterranean Sea during the last 19 years, analysing data from the annual bottom trawl survey MEDITS conducted by 5 different Mediterranean countries using standardized gears and sampling protocols. The influence of local and regional... |
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| Ano: 2016 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00303/41407/40581.pdf |
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| Colloca, Francesco; Milisenda, Giacomo; Capezzuto, Francesca; Cau, Alessandro; Garofalo, Germana; Jadaud, Angelique; Kiparissis, Sotiris; Micallef, Reno; Montanini, Stefano; Thasitis, Ioannis; Vallisneri, Maria; Voliani, Alessandro; Vrgoc, Nedo; Zupa, Walter; Ordines, Rancesc. |
| In this study we investigated the spatio-temporal distribution of gurnards (8 species of Triglidae and one species of Peristediidae) in the northern Mediterranean Sea using 22 years of MEDITS bottom trawl survey data (1994-2015). Gurnards showed significant differences in terms of abundance, dominance and composition among geographical sub-areas and ecoregions, with the highest relative biomass (BIy) being found in Malta, eastern Corsica, the Balearic Islands and the eastern Ionian Sea. The lowest gurnards BIy were observed in the highly exploited areas of the western Mediterranean and the Adriatic Sea, where the largest number of species with a negative linear trend in BIy was also found. The temporal trends in species abundances highlighted a general... |
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Palavras-chave: Triglidae; Mediterranean Sea; Trawl by-catch; MEDITS; Fishing pressure. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00486/59749/62855.pdf |
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| Spedicato, Maria Teresa; Zupa, Walter; Carbonara, Pierluigi; Fiorentino, Fabio; Follesca, Maria Cristina; Galgani, Francois; Garcia-ruiz, Cristina; Jadaud, Angelique; Ioakeimidis, Christos; Lazarakis, Giorgios; Lembo, Giuseppe; Mandic, Milica; Maiorano, Porzia; Sartini, Marina; Serena, Fabrizio; Cau, Alessandro; Esteban, Antonio; Isajlovic, Igor; Micallef, Reno; Thasitis, Ioannis. |
| Marine litter is one of the main sources of anthropogenic pollution in the marine ecosystem, with plastic representing a global threat. This paper aims to assess the spatial distribution of plastic macro-litter on the seafloor, identifying accumulation hotspots at a northern Mediterranean scale. Density indices (items km–2) from the MEDITS trawl surveys (years 2013-2015) were modelled by generalized additive models using a Delta-type approach and several covariates: latitude, longitude, depth, seafloor slope, surface oceanographic currents and distances from main ports. To set thresholds for the identification of accumulation areas, the percentiles (85th, 90th and 95th) of the plastic spatial density distribution were computed on the raster data. In the... |
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Palavras-chave: Marine macro-litter; Plastic; Mediterranean Sea; GAM modelling; Accumulation areas; MEDITS. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00591/70319/68355.pdf |
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| Mérigot, Bastien; Gaertner, Jean-claude; Brind’amour, Anik; Carbonara, Pierluigi; Esteban, Antonio; Garcia-ruiz, Cristina; Gristina, Michele; Imzilen, Taha; Jadaud, Angelique; Joksimovic, Aleksandar; Kavadas, Stefanos; Kolitari, Jerina; Maina, Irida; Maiorano, Porzia; Manfredi, Chiara; Micallef, Reno; Peristeraki, Panagiota; Relini, Giulio; Sbrana, Mario; Spedicato, Maria Teresa; Thasitis, Ioannis; Vittori, Stefania; Vrgoc, Nedo. |
| Trawling pressure and environmental changes may affect the composition of fish assemblages. Our knowledge on large spatio-temporal patterns of demersal fish composition remains incomplete for the Mediterranean Sea. We investigated (1) the spatio-temporal stability of demersal assemblages, (2) the relationships between these assemblages and potential structuring factors (trawling pressure and environmental conditions) in order to assess the dynamic of the assemblage structure at the scale of the northern Mediterranean Sea. We analysed a dataset of 18062 hauls from 10 to 800 m depth performed annually during the last two decades across 17 Geographical Sub-Areas (GSAs) (MEDITS program). A multi-table analysis (STATICO-CoA) evidenced a strong inter-GSAs... |
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Palavras-chave: Species composition; Stability; Demersal assemblages; Environment; Fishing pressure; Large scale; Co-inertia analysis; STATICO-CoA. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00584/69629/67485.pdf |
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| Sbrana, Mario; Zupa, Walter; Ligas, Alessandro; Capezzuto, Francesca; Chatzispyrou, Archontia; Follesa, Maria Cristina; Gancitano, Vita; Guijarro, Beatriz; Isajlovic, Igor; Jadaud, Angelique; Markovic, Olivera; Micallef, Reno; Peristeraki, Panagiota; Piccinetti, Corrado; Thasitis, Ioannis; Carbonara, Pierluigi. |
| The main characteristics concerning the distribution of two of the most important decapod crustaceans of commercial interest in the Mediterranean Sea, the deep-water rose shrimp, Parapenaeus longirostris, and the Norway lobster, Nephrops norvegicus, are studied in the European Mediterranean waters. The study is based on data collected under the MEDITS trawl surveys from 1994 to 2015 from the Gibraltar Straits to the northeastern Levantine Basin (Cyprus waters). The observed differences can be interpreted as different responses to environmental drivers related to the differing life history traits of the two species. In fact, N. norvegicus is a long-living, benthic burrowing species with low growth and mortality rates, while P. longirostris is an epibenthic,... |
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Palavras-chave: Nephrops norvegicus; Parapenaeus longirostris; Distribution; Trawl survey; Mediterranean Sea. |
| Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00489/60052/63331.pdf |
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| Keller, Stefanie; Quetglas, Antoni; Puerta, Patricia; Bitetto, Isabella; Casciaro, Loredana; Cuccu, Danila; Esteban, Antonio; Garcia, Cristina; Garofalo, Germana; Guijarro, Beatriz; Josephides, Marios; Jadaud, Angelique; Lefkaditou, Evgenia; Maiorano, Porzia; Manfredi, Chiara; Marceta, Bojan; Micallef, Reno; Peristeraki, Panagiota; Relini, Giulio; Sartor, Paolo; Spedicato, Maria Teresa; Tserpes, George; Hidalgo, Manuel. |
| The Mediterranean Sea is characterized by large scale gradients of temperature, productivity and salinity, in addition to pronounced mesoscale differences. Such a heterogeneous system is expected to shape the population dynamics of marine species. On the other hand, prevailing environmental and climatic conditions at whole basin scale may force spatially distant populations to fluctuate in synchrony. Cephalopods are excellent case studies to test these hypotheses owing to their high sensitivity to environmental conditions. Data of two cephalopod species with contrasting life histories (benthic octopus vs nectobenthic squid), obtained from scientific surveys carried out throughout the Mediterranean during the last 20 years were analyzed. The objectives of... |
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Palavras-chave: Cephalopods; Mediterranean; MEDITS; Dynamic factor analysis; Synchrony; Octopus vulgaris; Illex coindetii. |
| Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00371/48207/48320.pdf |
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