Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a major tool to conserve marine ecosystems but are also strongly attractive to tourists, the increased numbers of which can cause environmental issues if not properly managed. Proposing an MPA and then failing to establish it risks advertising the beauty of a marine area without managing the unavoidable...
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2018 (v1)PublicationUploaded on: April 14, 2023
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July 2015 (v1)Journal article
The effects of global change are particularly serious in areas where range shiftsof species are physically constrained such as the Ligurian Sea, which is one ofthe coldest sectors of the Mediterranean. In this basin, historical informationon water temperature (from the sea surface down to 75 m depth) dates backto the 1950s. Early studies also...
Uploaded on: March 25, 2023