Estimation of mesospheric gravity wave momentum flux using Hybrid Doppler Interferometry

15th MST Radar WorkshopSession M6: Middle atmosphere dynamics and structureMay 31 (Wed), NIPR Auditoriu

Results of PERMANOVA test with the distance and position factors for the total community structure and function in Fara and Agios Vasilios caves.

<p>Results of PERMANOVA test with the distance and position factors for the total community structure and function in Fara and Agios Vasilios caves.</p

Biological traits and trait modalities used for studying the functional structure in the surveyed marine caves.

<p>Biological traits and trait modalities used for studying the functional structure in the surveyed marine caves.</p

Taxonomic and functional surrogates of sessile benthic diversity in Mediterranean marine caves - Fig 4

<p><b>Resemblance for (A) TCS and (B) TCF for Fara cave and (C) TCS and (D) TCF for Agios Vasilios cave with respect to the distance from the entrance and the position on the walls of the cave (ceiling, left wall, right wall).</b> Numbers indicate distance from cave entrance. TCS, total community structure; TCF, total community function.</p

Results of PERMANOVA test with the distance and position factors for the sponge community structure and function in Fara and Agios Vasilios caves.

<p>Results of PERMANOVA test with the distance and position factors for the sponge community structure and function in Fara and Agios Vasilios caves.</p

Strength and significance of the relationship (RELATE test) between all pairs of similarity matrices regarding the structural and functional patterns of the total community and the sponge community of Fara and Agios Vasilios caves.

<p>Strength and significance of the relationship (RELATE test) between all pairs of similarity matrices regarding the structural and functional patterns of the total community and the sponge community of Fara and Agios Vasilios caves.</p

Unpublished Mediterranean records of marine alien and cryptogenic species

Good datasets of geo-referenced records of alien species are a prerequisite for assessing the spatio-temporal dynamics of biological invasions, their invasive potential, and the magnitude of their impacts. However, with the exception of first records on a country level or wider regions, observations of species presence tend to remain unpublished, buried in scattered repositories or in the personal databases of experts. Through an initiative to collect, harmonize and make such unpublished data for marine alien and cryptogenic species in the Mediterranean Sea available, a large dataset comprising 5376 records was created. It includes records of 239 alien or cryptogenic taxa (192 Animalia, 24 Plantae, 23 Chromista) from 19 countries surrounding the Mediterranean Sea. In terms of records, the most reported Phyla in descending order were Chordata, Mollusca, Chlorophyta, Arthropoda, and Rhodophyta. The most recorded species was Caulerpa cylindracea, followed by Siganus luridus, Magallana sp. (cf. gigas or angulata) and Pterois miles. The dataset includes records from 1972 to 2020, with the highest number of records observed in 2018. Among the records of the dataset, Dictyota acutiloba is a first record for the Mediterranean Sea. Nine first country records are also included: the alga Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla, the cube boxfish Ostracion cubicus, and the cleaner shrimp Urocaridella pulchella from Israel; the sponge Paraleucilla magna from Libya and Slovenia; the lumpfish Cyclopterus lumpus from Cyprus; the bryozoan Celleporaria vermiformis and the polychaetes Prionospio depauperata and Notomastus aberans from Malta.</p