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Phycological Herbaria as a Useful Tool to Monitor Long-Term Changes of Macroalgae Diversity: Some Case Studies from the Mediterranean Sea

Simona Armeli MinicanteAnna Maria ManninoConxi Rodríguez-prieto

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0106 biological sciencesBiodiversitat -- Mediterrània MarPopulationHerbarisBiodiversityIntroduced species010603 evolutionary biology01 natural sciencesMediterranean seaAbundance (ecology)Climatic changes -- Mediterranean SeaMediterranean Seaeducationlcsh:QH301-705.5biodiversityNature and Landscape Conservationeducation.field_of_studymacroalgae collectionsherbariaEcologyEcologySettore BIO/02 - Botanica Sistematica010604 marine biology & hydrobiologyEcological ModelingHerbariaBiological diversity -- Mediterranean SeaAgricultural and Biological Sciences (miscellaneous)Canvis climàtics -- Mediterrània MarOverexploitationclimate changeHerbariumGeographylcsh:Biology (General)Habitat

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The Mediterranean Sea is currently experiencing a decline in the abundance of several key species, as a consequence of anthropogenic pressures (e.g., increase in human population, habitat modification and loss, pollution, coastal urbanization, overexploitation, introduction of non-indigenous species and climate change). Herbaria and natural history collections are certainly fundamental for taxonomic studies, but they are also an invaluable, if currently underestimated, resource for understanding ecological and evolutionary responses of species to environmental changes. Macroalgae herbarium collections, which are really consistent (ranging from 200,000 to approximately 500,000 specimens) in some European herbaria (e.g., Mus&eacute

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2020-08-10Diversity
https://doi.org/10.3390/d12080309