The ocean carbon cycle spans multiple scales and reservoirs, challenging efforts to build a coherent picture and fostering misconceptions or fragmented narratives in science and public discourse. Comm...
Marine oil spills are globally widespread, posing significant threats to marine wildlife. While the spatial and temporal distribution of oil concentrations in the environment can be modeled with high ...
The effectiveness of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) for studying marine biodiversity highly relies on comprehensive libraries of species-specific sounds. While sound production is well-documented i...
Geodia cydonium, a sponge belonging to Demospongiae and endemic species to the Mediterranean Sea, is capturing increasing attention due to its rich and chemically diverse metabolome. Previous studies ...
The permanent closure of large marine areas is often regarded as an effective strategy for conserving marine biodiversity. However, implementing large permanent closures can be difficult in many small...
The Southwest Atlantic Ocean (SWAO) is a globally important region, where diverse water masses converge and mix, regulating the Earth's climate while supporting productive fisheries and high marine bi...
This dataset provides information for 3235 Brachiopoda specimens held within the Ocean Benthic Fauna collection (collection code: OBFc) in the Shirshov Institute of Oceanology (IORAS). Collected from ...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) metabarcoding provides a non-invasive tool for monitoring marine biodiversity in complex ecosystems. In this study, we applied eDNA techniques to investigate the spatiotempora...
Natural products from marine and terrestrial organisms provide an important resource for medicinal chemistry and drug discovery. Defined as occurring at depths greater than 200 m, most of the ocean, b...
Vertical seawalls are extensive and rapidly expanding in coastal cities and ports but provide inadequate habitat for intertidal fauna and flora as they lack necessary refugia from heat and desiccation...
Murcia coastline sustains high marine biodiversity but has suffered severe impacts from toxic heavy-metal discharges. We report mercury (Hg) and selenium (Se) levels, and the Se:Hg molar ratio, in liv...
Anthropogenic disturbances increasingly compromise marine environments, with severe consequences for vulnerable coral ecosystems. While global stressor impacts on stony corals are well-documented, the...
Coral reef ecosystems in the South China Sea (SCS) represent globally significant biodiversity hotspots but are increasingly threatened by environmental change and anthropogenic pressures. In this stu...
Understanding the current and future trajectories of critical habitats is essential for biodiversity conservation and ecosystem management, especially in semi-enclosed environments such as the Mediter...
Reports of cryptic species have increased in recent decades, driven by advances in molecular studies and accessibility of DNA sequencing, resulting in integrative taxonomy as the standard for species ...
Marine metabolites and sea-based biomaterials derived from diverse oceanic organisms have emerged as a rich source of bioactive compounds with significant therapeutic potential for human diseases. Thi...
The thousands of oil and gas (OG) platforms placed at sea for fossil fuel extraction have introduced new hard substrate to the marine environment. Over time, these structures can become colonized by a...
Bottom trawl fisheries are recognized to be a global threat to marine biodiversity and a dominant driver of sea floor ecosystem change. Although the mechanism of trawling impact on benthic life is mor...
Environmental DNA (eDNA) offers a non-invasive approach for monitoring cetaceans, yet its widespread application from operational platforms requires standardized and feasible sampling workflows. This ...
Ocean alkalinity enhancement (OAE) is proposed as a potential tool to remove atmospheric CO2 and mitigate climate change. However, the effects of OAE on marine protozoa remain poorly understood. In th...
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