Aguilar, Ricardo

de la Torriente, Ana

García Raso, J. Enrique

Gofas, Serge

Lo Iacono, Claudio

Luque, Ángel A.

Marina, Pablo

Mateo-Ramírez, Ángel

Moreno, Diego

Moya-Urbano, E.

Navarro-Barranco, Carlos

Rueda, Jose L.

Salas, Carmen

Sánchez-Tocino, Luis

Templado, José

Urra, Javier

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Benthic habitats, as well as their associated biota, have been studied in the Alboran Sea since the nineteenth century, with a very significant increase of knowledge in the last five decades. The geographical location of the Alboran Sea between three different biogeographical regions, the complex oceanography and the heterogeneous seafloor promote the coexistence of a wide diversity of habitat-forming species and, therefore, of habitat types. Some of these habitats host very complex communities in comparison to similar ones that are located northwards in the Atlantic Ocean or eastwards in the Mediterranean Sea. Moreover, some of those habitats are considered to be threatened or are experiencing very strong declines during this last decade and are probably extinct nowadays (e.g. Zostera marina beds). General knowledge of the associated biota is larger for those habitats of shallow waters in comparison to those of the deep sea and for those located in the northern sector in relation to those of the southern sector of the Alboran Sea. In most habitats, only some components of the associated biota have been studied, and there is a general lack of information for specific groups (e.g. meiofauna, Platyhelminthes, etc.)Claudio Lo Iacono thanks the project SHAKE (CGL2011-30005-C02-02) from the Spanish Government as well as EU-Marie Curie IF GEO-HABIT (GA29874)Peer reviewe

Rueda, José Luis

De-la-Torriente, Ana

Moya-Urbano, Elena

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Benthic Fauna of Littoral and Deep-Sea Habitats of the Alboran Sea: A Hotspot of Biodiversity

José L. Rueda

Serge Gofas

Ricardo Aguilar

Ana de la Torriente

J. Enrique García Raso

Claudio Lo Iacono

Ángel A. Luque

Pablo Marina

Ángel Mateo-Ramírez

Elena Moya-Urbano

Diego Moreno

Carlos Navarro-Barranco

Carmen Salas

Luis Sánchez-Tocino

José Templado

Javier Urra

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Rueda, J.L. (José Luis)

Marina-Ureña, P. (Pablo)

Mateo-Ramírez, Á. (Ángel)

Urra, J. (Javier)

Gofas, S

Aguilar, R

de la Torriente, A.

García-Raso, J.E. (José Enrique)

Lo-Iacono, C. (Claudio)

Luque, Á. (Ángel)

Moya-Urbano, E. (Elena)

Moreno, D. (Diego)

Navarro-Barranco, C.

Salas, C.

Templado

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Benthic Fauna of Littoral and Deep-Sea Habitats of the Alboran Sea: A Hotspot of Biodiversity

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