Mediterranean rocky reefs in the Anthropocene: Present status and future concerns

Stanislao Bevilacqua; Laura Airoldi; Enric Ballesteros; Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi; Ferdinando Boero; Fabio Bulleri; Emma Cebrian; Carlo Cerrano; Joachim Claudet; Francesco Colloca; Martina Coppari; Antonio Di Franco; Simonetta Fraschetti; Joaquim Garrabou; Giuseppe Guarnieri; Cristiana Guerranti; Paolo Guidetti; Benjamin S. Halpern; Stelios Katsanevakis; Maria Cristina Mangano; Fiorenza Micheli; Marco Milazzo; Antonio Pusceddu; Monia Renzi; Gil Rilov; Gianluca Sarà; Antonio Terlizzi

doi:10.1016/bs.amb.2021.08.001

Mediterranean rocky reefs in the Anthropocene: Present status and future concerns

Stanislao Bevilacqua, Laura Airoldi, Enric Ballesteros, Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Ferdinando Boero, Fabio Bulleri, Emma Cebrian, Carlo Cerrano, Joachim Claudet, Francesco Colloca, Martina Coppari, Antonio Di Franco, Simonetta Fraschetti, Joaquim Garrabou, Giuseppe Guarnieri, Cristiana Guerranti, Paolo Guidetti, Benjamin S. Halpern, Stelios Katsanevakis, Maria Cristina ManganoFiorenza Micheli, Marco Milazzo, Antonio Pusceddu, Monia Renzi, Gil Rilov, Gianluca Sarà, Antonio Terlizzi

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Abstract

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.

Original language	English
Title of host publication	Advances in Marine Biology
Editors	Charles Sheppard
Publisher	Academic Press
Pages	1-51
Number of pages	51
ISBN (Print)	9780128246238
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.amb.2021.08.001
State	Published - Jan 2021
Externally published	Yes

Publication series

Name	Advances in Marine Biology
Volume	89
ISSN (Print)	0065-2881
ISSN (Electronic)	2162-5875

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
S.B. outlined and led the manuscript drafting. All authors equally contributed to intellectual contents, writing and critical review of the manuscript.

Publisher Copyright:
© 2021 Elsevier Ltd

Keywords

Algal forests
Bioconstructions
Coastal ecosystems
Conservation
Fish assemblages
Global change
Marine biodiversity

ASJC Scopus subject areas

Ecology, Evolution, Behavior and Systematics
Aquatic Science

UN SDGs

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Bevilacqua, S., Airoldi, L., Ballesteros, E., Benedetti-Cecchi, L., Boero, F., Bulleri, F., Cebrian, E., Cerrano, C., Claudet, J., Colloca, F., Coppari, M., Di Franco, A., Fraschetti, S., Garrabou, J., Guarnieri, G., Guerranti, C., Guidetti, P., Halpern, B. S., Katsanevakis, S., ... Terlizzi, A. (2021). Mediterranean rocky reefs in the Anthropocene: Present status and future concerns. In C. Sheppard (Ed.), Advances in Marine Biology (pp. 1-51). (Advances in Marine Biology; Vol. 89). Academic Press. https://doi.org/10.1016/bs.amb.2021.08.001

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Mediterranean rocky reefs in the Anthropocene: Present status and future concerns

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