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Variazioni morfologiche nel corso dell'ontogenesi in individui di Bathyporeia guilliamsoniana (Crustacea: Amphipoda).
No full textAmphipod assemblage under the influence of desalination plants in the south-eastern Mediterranean
Full text linkA check-list of amphipod assemblage, collected in the vicinity of two Israeli desalination plant marine outfalls, is provided with some notes about the species. The dataset highlights changes in species composition throughout the years, possibly due to local anthropogenic impacts
East is east and west is west – implications of bioinvasion patterns in the Mediterranean Sea for implementation of the MSFD
No full textThe northernmost record of the blue-spotted cornetfish from the Mediterranean Sea
Full text linkA school of Fistularia commersonii was sighted off Laigueglia (Italy), Northwestern Ligurian Sea, in August 2008. This fast spreading invasive Indo-Pacific fish was first recorded in the Mediterranean from Israel, and it has since spread clear across the sea. This is the northernmost record from the Mediterranean
Geometric morphometry supports a taxonomic revision of the Mediterranean Bathyporeia guilliamsoniana (Spence Bate, 1857) (Amphipoda, Bathyporeiidae)
Full text linkBathyporeia guilliamsoniana (Spence Bate, 1857) specimens collected in the Levantine Basin
of the Mediterranean Sea displayed polymorphism in some characters. More than 100 specimens
were examined and their intra-specific variation in the shape of the third epimeral plate analysed
and quantified. The morphometric geometry methodology is used to assess the ‘cryptic’ variation
in shape which may obscure identification. The results support the assignment of sunnivae and
megalops to morphotypes of B. guilliamsoniana sensu d’Udekem d’Acoz & Vader (2005)
Monitoring Marine Invasive Species in Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas (MPAs)
No full textThe objective of this guide is to aid Mediterranean MPAs in developing an effective IAS programme. To facilitate this, a draft Marine Invasive Alien
Species Strategy for the MedPAN Network was prepared a
priori and discussed in several regional workshops with
MPA managers and experts (MedPAN Draft IAS Strategy,
2012). The overall aim of the strategy is to establish a
common framework for MedPAN members to take action
on marine invasive species. The present guide takes
forward some of the described actions, addressing the key
goals and main recommendations of the strategy, with a
view to the prevention and early detection of new IAS
entering the MPA environment. Furthermore, it contains
information on the introduction pathways and impacts of
major marine species that have invaded the Mediterranean
Sea, on how to monitor and identify them and on what can
be done to prevent their establishment and spread in MPAs
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