Historical and Current Diversity Patterns of Mediterranean Marine Species 

 - Basel, Switzerland  MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute  2021 
 - 1 online resource (106 p.) 
<br/><br/> Open Access 
<br/><br/> The Mediterranean Sea is a semi-enclosed basin which experienced different natural and anthropogenic phenomena causes of community or intra-species changes over time. The Mediterranean Sea went through dramatic changes in its biota through the last 6 million years and more quickly in the recent century. All the events left a footprint on the gene pool of marine species, on their morpho-anatomical features, and on the loss or expansion of the geographical range extent. Nowadays the Mediterranean basin is changing its physical and ecological characteristics. The changes in its environmental conditions are followed by changes in its species composition and have been recorded in historical museum collections. In this book, the biodiversity in the Mediterranean Sea is described at a synchronic or diachronic level, highlighting the past two centuries for which museum collections can provide overlooked information. 
<br/><br/><br/>Creative Commons 
<br/><br/><br/>English 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9783036512044 9783036512051 books978-3-0365-1204-4 
<br/><br/><label>Standard No.: </label>10.3390/books978-3-0365-1204-4  doi 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Environmental economics<br/>Research and information: general
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Index Terms: </label>Adriatic Sea algae Annelida benthic communities benthos biodiversity biomonitoring cetacean strandings chondrichthyans climate change community structure conservation control region endangered species environmental changes environmental heritage fishing herbaria historical data historical ecology macroalgae collections marine mammals Mediterranean biodiversity Mediterranean monk seal Mediterranean Sea mitochondrial DNA Monachus monachus mtDNA museum collections n/a natural history museums Polychaeta swordfish taxonomy zoological collections