Halophila stipulacea is one of the first Lessepsian migrants to colonize the Mediterranean Sea (in 1894) after the opening of the Suez Canal. Since then, it has progressively expanded its distribution westward across the basin. Here, we report for the first time the presence of H. stipulacea in Palma Bay (Mallorca, Balearic Islands, Spain), representing the westernmost known occurrence of the species in the Mediterranean Sea....

We examine the ability of an ensemble of 10 Regional Climate Models ( RCMs ), driven by ERA ‐Interim reanalysis, in skillfully reproducing key features of present‐day precipitation and temperature (1990–2008) over West Africa. We explore a wide range of time scales spanning seasonal climatologies, annual cycles and interannual variability, and a number of spatial scales covering the Sahel, the Gulf of Guinea and the entire Wes...