The eastern Ionian Sea is an important area for marine fauna, but it is also a region of substantial overlap between human activities and natural ecosystem components. Using data from a fixed passive acoustic monitoring station deployed over a 7-month period (July 2022 – January 2023), this study describes the near-shore marine soundscape of northern Kefalonia Island and documents elevated noise levels associated with coastal...

Here we present an update of the Mediterranean distribution of the lionfish Pterois miles, based on a comprehensive list of geo-referenced occurrences up to October 2019. New data were provided by multiple reporting tools and citizen science initiatives. Our findings suggest that well established populations of P. miles exist in the Levantine Sea, in the southern and central Aegean Sea, as well as in the Greek Ionian Sea, whil...

The historical observations of the total cloud cover (TCC) index since 1900 from the National Observatory of Athens archives were used here, in order to investigate the inter‐annual variability of TCC. Multi‐spectral decomposition analysis was applied in order to resolve statistically significant modes of TCC variability out of the estimated stochastic variations. An increase of the Athens TCC (A‐TCC) was ascertained during th...