TY - JOUR
T1 - Mediterranean rocky reefs in the Anthropocene: Present status and future concerns
AU - Milazzo, Marco
AU - Guerranti, Cristiana
AU - Renzi, Monia
AU - Guarnieri, Giuseppe
AU - Di Franco, Antonio
AU - Boero, Ferdinando
AU - Mangano, Maria Cristina
AU - Coppari, Martina
AU - Fraschetti, Simonetta
AU - Katsanevakis, Stelios
AU - Garrabou, Joaquim
AU - Cebrian, Emma
AU - Rilov, Gil
AU - Bulleri, Fabio
AU - Colloca, Francesco
AU - Terlizzi, Antonio
AU - Benedetti-Cecchi, Lisandro
AU - Cerrano, Carlo
AU - Pusceddu, Antonio
AU - Guidetti, Paolo
AU - Milazzo, Marco
AU - Airoldi, Laura
AU - Ballesteros, Enric
AU - Micheli, Fiorenza
AU - Halpern, Benjamin S.
AU - Claudet, Joachim
AU - Bevilacqua, Stanislao
PY - 2021
Y1 - 2021
N2 - Global change is striking harder and faster in the Mediterranean Sea than elsewhere, where high levels of human pressure and proneness to climate change interact in modifying the structure and disrupting regulative mechanisms of marine ecosystems. Rocky reefs are particularly exposed to such environmental changes with ongoing trends of degradation being impressive. Due to the variety of habitat types and associated marine biodiversity, rocky reefs are critical for the functioning of marine ecosystems, and their decline could profoundly affect the provision of essential goods and services which human populations in coastal areas rely upon. Here, we provide an up-to-date overview of the status of rocky reefs, trends in human-driven changes undermining their integrity, and current and upcoming management and conservation strategies, attempting a projection on what could be the future of this essential component of Mediterranean marine ecosystems.
AB - Global change is striking harder and faster in the Mediterranean Sea than elsewhere, where high levels of human pressure and proneness to climate change interact in modifying the structure and disrupting regulative mechanisms of marine ecosystems. Rocky reefs are particularly exposed to such environmental changes with ongoing trends of degradation being impressive. Due to the variety of habitat types and associated marine biodiversity, rocky reefs are critical for the functioning of marine ecosystems, and their decline could profoundly affect the provision of essential goods and services which human populations in coastal areas rely upon. Here, we provide an up-to-date overview of the status of rocky reefs, trends in human-driven changes undermining their integrity, and current and upcoming management and conservation strategies, attempting a projection on what could be the future of this essential component of Mediterranean marine ecosystems.
UR - http://hdl.handle.net/10447/548136
M3 - Article
SN - 0065-2881
VL - 89
SP - 1
EP - 51
JO - Advances in Marine Biology
JF - Advances in Marine Biology
ER -