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Giuseppe Notarbartolo Di Sciara

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Italian marine reserve effectiveness: does enforcement matter?

2008

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have become popular tools worldwide for ecosystem conservation and fishery management. Fish assemblages can benefit from protection provided by MPAs, especially those that include fully no-take reserves. Fish response to protection can thus be used to evaluate the effectiveness of marine reserves. Most target fish are high-level predators and their overfishing may affect entire communities through trophic cascades. In the Mediterranean rocky sublittoral, marine reserves may allow fish predators of sea urchins to recover and thus whole communities to be restored from coralline barrens to macroalgae. Such direct and indirect reserve effects, however, are likely t…

Conservation; Enforcement; Fish assemblages; Marine reserves; Mediterranean SeaENFORCEMENTConservationFish assemblagesFOOD WEBSMarine reservesMediterranean SeaEcosystemTrophic cascadeEnforcementEcology Evolution Behavior and SystematicsNature and Landscape ConservationNature reserveMARINE PROTECTED AREASVISUAL-CENSUSOverfishingEcologyMarine reserves; Fish assemblages; Conservation; EnforcementMarine reserveMEDITERRANEAN SEAREEF FISH ASSEMBLAGESRECOVERYFisheryGeographyMarine protected areaFisheries managementEnforcement
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MEDLEM database, a data collection on large Elasmobranchs in the Mediterranean and Black seas

2020

The Mediterranean Large Elasmobranchs Monitoring (MEDLEM) database contains more than 3,000 records (with more than 4,000 individuals) of large elasmobranch species from 21 different countries around the Mediterranean and Black seas, observed from 1666 to 2017. The principal species included in the archive are the devil ray (1,868 individuals), the basking shark (935 individuals), the blue shark (622 individuals), and the great white shark (342 individuals). In the last decades, other species such as the thresher shark (187 individuals), the shortfin mako (180 individuals), and the spiny butterfly ray (138) were reported with increasing frequency. This was possibly due to increased public a…

Bycatch; databases; geographical distribution; large elasinobranchs; Mediterranean and Black seas; sharks0106 biological sciencesMediterranean climate2417.05 Biología Marina2510.01 Oceanografía Biológicalarge elasmobranchsMediterranean and Black seascetorhinus-maximus gunnerusOceanographycomputer.software_genre01 natural sciencesBasking sharkPesqueríasThresher shark1st recordsbiologyDatabaseconservationBycatch; databases; geographical distribution; large elasmobranchs; Mediterranean and Black seas; sharks04 agricultural and veterinary sciencescarcharhinidaeGeographyMediterranean and black seacoastbasking sharkLarge elasmobranchcarcharodon-carcharias linnaeusEnvironmental Engineeringdatabases[SDE.MCG]Environmental Sciences/Global ChangesFishingSede Central IEOAquatic Sciencesharksplumbeus chondrichthyesDatabasesharks.biology.animal[SDV.BA.ZV]Life Sciences [q-bio]/Animal biology/Vertebrate Zoologysharks; by-catch; databases; large elasmobranchs; geographical distribution; Mediterranean and Black seasgeographical distributionBycatch ; databases ; geographical distribution ; large elasinobranchs ; Mediterranean and Black seas ; sharks14. Life underwaterEcology Evolution Behavior and Systematicslarge elasinobranchs010604 marine biology & hydrobiologybiology.organism_classificationlamniformes cetorhinidaeby-catchBycatchGreat white sharkBycatchButterfly ray040102 fisheries0401 agriculture forestry and fisheriesConservation status[SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecologycomputer
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Assessing cetacean surveys throughout the Mediterranean Sea: a gap analysis in environmental space

2018

Heterogeneous data collection in the marine environment has led to large gaps in our knowledge of marine species distributions. To fill these gaps, models calibrated on existing data may be used to predict species distributions in unsampled areas, given that available data are sufficiently representative. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of mapping cetacean densities across the entire Mediterranean Sea using models calibrated on available survey data and various environmental covariates. We aggregated 302,481 km of line transect survey effort conducted in the Mediterranean Sea within the past 20 years by many organisations. Survey coverage was highly heterogeneous geographicall…

0106 biological sciencesMediterranean climateQH301 Biologylcsh:Medicine010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesMarine speciesArticleFish surveys -- Mediterranean SeaQH301Environmental spaceMediterranean seaFishes -- Mediterranean SeaSDG 14 - Life Below Water14. Life underwaterTransectlcsh:ScienceGEMultidisciplinaryData collection010604 marine biology & hydrobiologylcsh:RDASGap analysis (conservation)[SDE]Environmental SciencesSurvey data collectionEnvironmental sciencelcsh:QPhysical geographyCetacea populations -- Mediterranean SeaGE Environmental Sciences
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Data from: Assessing cetacean surveys throughout the Mediterranean Sea: a gap analysis in environmental space

2019

Heterogeneous data collection in the marine environment has led to large gaps in our knowledge of marine species distributions. To fill these gaps, models calibrated on existing data may be used to predict species distributions in unsampled areas, given that available data are sufficiently representative. Our objective was to evaluate the feasibility of mapping cetacean densities across the entire Mediterranean Sea using models calibrated on available survey data and various environmental covariates. We aggregated 302,481 km of line transect survey effort conducted in the Mediterranean Sea within the past 20 years by many organisations. Survey coverage was highly heterogeneous geographicall…

cetaceansmedicine and health careGap analysisenvironmental spaceextrapolationLife SciencesMedicine
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