Marine plastic pollution is increasingly recognized as a major threat to marine ecosystems. Here, we investigate temporal patterns of diet composition and plastic ingestion in the European shag (Gulos...
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...
Anthropogenic disturbances increasingly compromise marine environments, with severe consequences for vulnerable coral ecosystems. While global stressor impacts on stony corals are well-documented, the...
Polymetallic sulfide deposits produced at hydrothermal vent fields are targets for mining exploitation along the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, threatening the functioning and resilience of vent ecosystems that ...
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...
Seamount ecosystems are increasingly exposed to rapid oceanographic change, including warming waters, declining oxygen concentrations, and the upward migration of carbonate saturation horizons. Togeth...
Marine microorganisms are vital to biogeochemical cycles and food web dynamics, with their community structure shaped by environmental factors such as temperature, light, and salinity. While microbial...
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...
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...
There is growing concern about the environmental impact of microplastics, especially on the transport of organic compounds and pollutants in aquatic systems. To further understand the effect of microp...
Marine space is three dimensional, the turnover of life forms is rapid, defining a fourth dimension: time. The definition of ecologically significant spatial units calls for the spatio-temporal framin...
The rare biosphere harbors immense microbial diversity, yet most low-abundance taxa remain uncultured and functionally enigmatic. Here, we isolated strain D14T from deep-sea water, and propose to clas...
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...
Sponges are important members of shallow-water, benthic ecosystems, where they often rely on their microbial symbionts to acquire organic or inorganic carbon. Sponges are also found in the deep sea, h...
Chemosymbiotic bivalves play a fundamental role in deep-sea cold seep and hydrothermal vent ecosystems, where essential long-chain polyunsaturated fatty acids (LC-PUFAs) are scarce. Whether these biva...
The southern coast of Europe has been at the center of archaeological debates contrasting the social and cognitive capabilities of Neanderthals and modern humans. Early evidence of marine resource exp...
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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