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Mediterranean rocky reefs in the Anthropocene: Present status and future concerns
Advances in marine biology2021
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Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Ferdinando Boero,
Laura Airoldi,
Stelios Katsanevakis,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Fabio Bulleri,
Joaquim Garrabou
Stanislao Bevilacqua,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Maria Cristina Mangano,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Laura Airoldi,
Laura Airoldi,
Stanislao Bevilacqua,
Stelios Katsanevakis,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Benjamin S. Halpern,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Maria Cristina Mangano,
Laura Airoldi,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Carlo Cerrano,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Maria Cristina Mangano,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Enric Ballesteros,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Stanislao Bevilacqua,
Maria Cristina Mangano,
Laura Airoldi,
Laura Airoldi,
Lisandro Benedetti‐Cecchi,
Stanislao Bevilacqua,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Carlo Cerrano,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Laura Airoldi,
Ferdinando Boero,
Joachim Claudet,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Joachim Claudet,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Stanislao Bevilacqua,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Fabio Bulleri,
Laura Airoldi,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Emma Cebrián,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Laura Airoldi,
Stanislao Bevilacqua,
Laura Airoldi,
Lisandro Benedetti‐Cecchi,
Emma Cebrián,
Carlo Cerrano,
Carlo Cerrano,
Carlo Cerrano,
Carlo Cerrano,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Carlo Cerrano,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Francesco Colloca,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Joachim Claudet,
Francesco Colloca,
Fabio Bulleri,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Martina Coppari,
Laura Airoldi,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Stelios Katsanevakis,
Laura Airoldi,
Antonio Franco,
Simonetta Fraschetti,
Joaquim Garrabou
Giuseppe Guarnieri,
Carlo Cerrano,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Cristiana Guerranti,
Paolo Guidetti,
Benjamin S. Halpern,
Stelios Katsanevakis,
Ferdinando Boero,
Maria Cristina Mangano,
Stelios Katsanevakis,
Joaquim Garrabou
Summary
This review assesses the current status and future threats facing Mediterranean rocky reef ecosystems in the context of climate change and human pressures. The study suggests that ongoing degradation of these biodiverse habitats, driven by warming, pollution, and overexploitation, could profoundly affect the essential ecological goods and services that coastal communities depend on.
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.