Addressing the need for clear communication in Mediterranean oceanography, this study presents a revised and comprehensive catalogue of water mass acronyms. Although there is no universal set of standard rules for assigning acronyms to water masses, as these can vary among different research groups, regions, or scientific communities, scientists generally aim for clarity and consistency when naming and abbreviating water masse...

Understanding microbial dispersal is critical to understand the dynamics and evolution of microbial communities. However, microbial dispersal is difficult to study because of uncertainty about their vectors of migration. This applies to both microbial communities in natural and human‐associated environments. Here, we studied microbial dispersal along the sourdoughs bread‐making chain using a participatory research approach. So...

We investigated the influence of the ocean circulation at different spatiotemporal scales on the seasonal distribution of a large marine predator, the Mediterranean fin whale, by comparing multisatellite data with the positions of eight fin whales equipped with Argos tracking devices from August 2003 to June 2004. At the western Mediterranean basin scale, fin whales were associated with the anticlockwise gyre in the northern p...