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A MSFD complementary approach for the assessment of pressures, knowledge and data gaps in Southern European Seas: The PERSEUS experience.

scientific article published on 16 April 2015

A bonanza of angelfish (Perciformes: Pomacanthidae) in the Mediterranean: the second documented record of Holacanthus ciliaris (Linnaeus, 1758)

scientific article published on 21 November 2020

A contribution to the phylogeography ofPinctada imbricata radiata(Leach, 1814) (Bivalvia: Pteriidae) from the Eastern Mediterranean Sea by means of the mitochondrialCOImarker

article published in 2015

A first attempt at testing correlation between MODIS ocean colour data and in situ chlorophyll-a measurements within Maltese coastal waters

A further record of the blue swimmer crab Portunus segnis Forskal, 1775 (Decapoda: Brachyura: Portunidae) from the Maltese Islands (Central Mediterranean)

A massive update of non-indigenous species records in Mediterranean marinas. ⬇️

scientific article published on 24 October 2017

A multi-method approach for benthic habitat mapping of shallow coastal areas with high-resolution multibeam data

article by Aaron Micallef et al published May 2012 in Continental Shelf Research

A preliminary comparative assessment of the meiofaunal communities of Maltese pocket sandy beaches

scholarly article by Lech Kotwicki published in October 2014

A study of osteological and molecular differences in populations of Aphanius fasciatus Nardo 1827, from the central Mediterranean (Teleostei, Cyprinodontidae)

scientific article published in 2006

Additional records of the little sleeper shark, Somniosus rostratus (Elasmobranchii: Squaliformes: Somniosidae), in Mediterranean Sea

scientific article published in 2024

Advancing marine conservation in European and contiguous seas with the MarCons Action

scientific article published on 25 January 2017

Are litter, plastic and microplastic quantities increasing in the ocean?

Assessing inter-beach differences in semi-terrestrial arthropod assemblages on Maltese pocket sandy beaches (Central Mediterranean)

scientific article published in 2008

Automating the characterisation of beach microplastics through the application of image analyses

scientific article

Back with a bang – an unexpected massive bloom of Cassiopea andromeda (Forskaal, 1775) in the Maltese Islands, nine years after its first appearance

scientific article published on 25 November 2018

Biomonitoring of the environmental contamination by organotins in the Gulf of Tunis: occurrence of imposex in Stramonita haemastoma (Linnaeus, 1767)

Branching out: mapping the spatial expansion of the lessepsian invader mytilid Brachidontes pharaonis around the Maltese Islands

Branching out: mapping the spatial expansion of the lessepsian invader mytilid Brachidontes pharaonis around the Maltese Islands

scholarly article published in Marine biodiversity records

Bridging the knowledge gap on the distribution and typology of vermetid bioconstructions along the Maltese coastline: an updated assessment

scientific article published in 2022

Challenges for Sustained Observing and Forecasting Systems in the Mediterranean Sea

scientific article

Chilomycterus reticulatus (Actinopterygii: Tetraodontiformes: Diodontidae) in the southern Sicilian waters, central Mediterranean Sea

scientific article published in 2024

Conserving European biodiversity across realms

Correction: A massive update of non-indigenous species records in Mediterranean marinas ⬇️

scientific article published on 14 November 2017

Current distribution of two species of Tylos (Isopoda: Oniscidea) in the Central Mediterranean and the influence of beach sand grain-size parameters

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DNA Taxonomy Confirms the Identity of the Widely-Disjunct Mediterranean and Atlantic Populations of the Tufted Ghost Crab Ocypode cursor (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae)

scientific article published in August 2019

DNA taxonomy of the potamid freshwater crabs from Northern Africa (Decapoda, Potamidae)

scientific article published in 2020

Defining the Trophic Status of Maltese (Central Mediterranean) Coastal Waters through the Computation of Water Quality Indices Based on Satellite Data

Distribution of resting cysts of the potentially toxic dinoflagellate Alexandrium pseudogonyaulax in recently-deposited sediment within Bizerte Lagoon (Mediterranean coast, Tunisia).

scientific article published on 27 May 2014

Do the levels of industrial pollutants influence the distribution and abundance of dinoflagellate cysts in the recently-deposited sediment of a Mediterranean coastal ecosystem?

scientific article

Environmental quality assessment of Grand Harbour (Valletta, Maltese Islands): a case study of a busy harbour in the Central Mediterranean Sea.

scientific article published on 12 November 2015

Far from home....the first documented capture of the genus Elops (Actinopterygii, Elopidae) from the Mediterranean

scientific article published in 2020

First characterisation of aLeiopathes glaberrima(Cnidaria: Anthozoa: Antipatharia) forest in Maltese exploited fishing grounds

scientific article published in 2014

First occurrence of Erugosquilla massavensis (Kossmann, 1880) in Italian waters (Ionian Sea)

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First occurrence of the needle-spined urchin Diadema setosum (Leske, 1778) (Echinodermata, Diadematidae) in the southern Mediterranean Sea

scientific article published in 2022

First record and potential trophic impact ofPhyllorhiza punctata(Cnidaria: Scyphozoa) along the north Tunisian coast (South Western Mediterranean Sea)

scientific article published in 2014

First record of Abudefduf cfr saxatilis Linnaeus, 1758 (Perciformes: Pomacentridae) from the Maltese Islands (Central Mediterranean)

First record of Naso annulatus (Quoy & Gaimard, 1825) and further records of Scatophagus argus (Linnaeus, 1766) and Charybdis (Charybdis) natator (Herbst, 1794) in the Mediterranean Sea

scientific article published in 2022

First record of Pontinus kuhlii in Maltese waters

First record of the fangtooth moray, Enchelycore anatina (Actinopterygii: Anguilliformes: Muraenidae), from Maltese waters, central Mediterranean

First record of the northern brown shrimp Penaeus aztecus Ives, 1891 (Crustacea, Decapoda, Penaeidae) from Libyan waters

scientific article published on 14 April 2021

First record of the silver-cheeked toadfish Lagocephalus sceleratus (Gmelin, 1789) from Malta

First records ofCarybdea marsupialisproliferation (Cnidaria: Cubozoa) along the eastern Tunisian coast (Central Mediterranean)

scientific article published in 2015

First reports of the Sohal surgeonfish, Acanthurus sohal (Forsskål, 1775) (Actinopterygii, Acanthuridae), and the Violet-eyed swimming crab, Carupa tenuipes Dana, 1852 (Decapoda, Brachyura, Portunidae), from North African waters

scientific article published in 2022

Further spread of the venomous jellyfish Rhopilema nomadica Galil, Spannier & Ferguson, 1990 (Rhizostomeae, Rhizostomatidae) in the western Mediterranean

Genome analysis of the monoclonal marbled crayfish reveals genetic separation over a short evolutionary timescale

scientific article

Identifying recreational fisheries in the Mediterranean Sea through social media

scholarly article by Ioannis Giovos et al published 28 June 2018 in Fisheries Management and Ecology

Increasing understanding of alien species through citizen science (Alien-CSI)

Invasion by non-indigenous freshwater decapods of Malta and Sicily, central Mediterranean Sea

scientific article published in 2018

Invasive portunid crabs in Libyan waters: first record of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 and range expansion of the swimming blue crab Portunus segnis (Forskål, 1775)

scientific article published in 2021

Is Citizen Science a Valid Tool to Monitor the Occurrence of Jellyfish? The Spot the Jellyfish Case Study from the Maltese Islands

scientific article published in May 2018

It was only a matter of time: occurrence of Caulerpa taxifolia (Vahl) C. Agardh var. distichophylla (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman and Procaccini in the Maltese Islands (Chlorophyta, Ulvophyceae, Caulerpaceae)

Jellyfish blooms perception in Mediterranean finfish aquaculture

Late Quaternary coastal landscape morphology and evolution of the Maltese Islands (Mediterranean Sea) reconstructed from high-resolution seafloor data

scholarly article by Federica Foglini et al published 15 September 2015 in Geological Society Special Publication

Long or short? Investigating the effect of beach length and other environmental parameters on macrofaunal assemblages of Maltese pocket beaches

scientific article published in 2008

Low Pufferfish and Lionfish Predation in Their Native and Invaded Ranges Suggests Human Control Mechanisms May Be Necessary to Control Their Mediterranean Abundances

scientific article published on 16 July 2021

Low faunal diversity on Maltese sandy beaches: fact or artefact?

scientific article published in 2003

Machine Learning for benthic sand and maerl classification and coverage estimation in coastal areas around the Maltese Islands

scholarly article by Adam Gauci et al published October 2016 in Journal of Applied Research and Technology

Making the Case for Marine Spatial Planning in the Maltese Islands

Management priorities for marine invasive species

scientific article published on 19 June 2019

Marine Ecological Impact Considerations for Cruise Liner Facility Development at Two Coastal Sites in the Maltese Islands

article

Mitochondrial DNA and microsatellites reveal significant divergence in the beachflea Orchestia montagui (Talitridae: Amphipoda)

article published in 2012

New records of Lobotes surinamensis (Bloch, 1790) in Maltese coastal waters

scientific article published in 2010

One Siganus or two? On the occurrence of Siganus luridus and Siganus rivulatus in the Maltese Islands

Optimising beached litter monitoring protocols through aerial imagery

scholarly article by Alan Deidun published in June 2018

Public feedback on early warning initiatives undertaken for hazardous non-indigenous species: the case of Lagocephalus sceleratus from Italian and Maltese waters

article

Range expansion and biometric features ofPinctada imbricata radiata(Bivalvia: Pteriidae) around Linosa Island, Central Mediterranean Sea (Italy)

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Record of Terapon jarbua (Forsskål, 1775) (Terapontidae) and Acanthopagrus bifasciatus (Forsskål, 1775) (Sparidae) in the Egyptian Mediterranean waters

scientific article published on 08 August 2021

Records of new and rare alien fish in North African waters: the burrowing goby Trypauchen vagina (Bloch and Schneider, 1801) and the bartail flathead Platycephalus indicus (Linnaeus, 1758) in Egypt and the cobia Rachycentron canadum (Linnaeus, 1766)

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Species identification of the psammophilous tenebrionid beetles Phaleria acuminata Küster, 1852 and Phaleria bimaculata (Linnaeus, 1767) from central Mediterranean beaches: geometric morphometrics and molecular insights from species to population le

scientific article published in 2013

Stress and immune response to bacterial LPS in the sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816)

scientific article published on 17 June 2019

Symplegma (Ascidiacea: Styelidae), a non-indigenous genus spreading within the Mediterranean Sea: taxonomy, routes and vectors

scientific article published on 22 March 2020

Tapping into hard-to-get information: the contribution of citizen science campaigns for updating knowledge on range-expanding, introduced and rare native marine species in the Malta-Sicily Channel

scientific article

The Potential and Constraints of Wind Farm Development at Nearshore Sites in the Maltese Islands

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The Synergistic Impacts of Anthropogenic Stressors and COVID-19 on Aquaculture: A Current Global Perspective

scientific article published in 2021

The first confirmed record of the Atlantic blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (Decapoda, Brachyura) from Maltese waters

scientific article published in 2022

The first record of the Sargocentron genus from the Maltese Islands (Central Mediterranean) - who will unravel the current conundrum?

The first record of the pharaoh cardinal fish, Apogonichthyoides pharaonis (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Apogonidae), from Libyan waters

scientific article published on 06 April 2021

The first record of the white-spotted Australian jellyfish Phyllorhiza punctata von Lendenfeld, 1884 from Maltese waters (western Mediterranean) and from the Ionian coast of Italy

article

The impact of marine litter from fish aggregation devices on vulnerable marine benthic habitats of the central Mediterranean Sea

scientific article published on 17 February 2020

The invasive tropical scyphozoan Rhopilema nomadica Galil, 1990 reaches the Tunisian coast of the Mediterranean Sea

The late Pleistocene origin of the Italian and Maltese populations of Potamon fluviatile (Malacostraca: Decapoda): insights from an expanded sampling of molecular data

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The potential of antimicrobial peptides isolated from freshwater crayfish species in new drug development: A review

The protected taxon Ocypode cursor (Linnaeus, 1758) (Crustacea: Decapoda: Ocypodidae) – documenting its well-established presence in the central Mediterranean

The westernmost record of Rhopilema nomadica (Galil, 1990) in the Mediterranean – off the Maltese Islands

scientific article published in 2011

The yellowfin surgeonfish Acanthurus xanthopterus Valenciennes, 1835 (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Acanthuridae) from Mediterranean Egyptian waters

scientific article published on 28 December 2021

Unfolding Jellyfish Bloom Dynamics along the Mediterranean Basin by Transnational Citizen Science Initiatives

scientific article published in 2021

Unpublished Mediterranean and Black Sea records of marine alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species

scientific article published in 2023

Using Local Ecological Knowledge to Search for Non-Native Species in Natura 2000 Sites in the Central Mediterranean Sea: An Approach to Identify New Arrivals and Hotspot Areas

scientific article published in 2023

Which is the Best Predictor of Sea Temperature: Satellite, Model or Data Logger Values? A Case Study from the Maltese Islands (Central Mediterranean)

Yet another angelfish species for the Mediterranean – the first record of Holacanthus africanus Cadenat, 1951 from Maltese waters, central Mediterranean

article published in 2017

Records of the critically endangered Squatina aculeata and Squatina oculata (Elasmobranchii: Squatiniformes: Squatinidae) from the Mediterranean Sea

scientific article published on 22 December 2022

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