Weakening polar temperature gradients are associated with increasingly persistent weather patterns, increasing the risk of extreme environmental events. While disturbances, such as marine heat waves, have received growing attention, others, including negative sea level anomalies, remain understudied. Prolonged and extreme low‐water conditions can impose strong physiological stress on coastal organisms and alter community struc...

Marine coastal habitats are often characterized by strong gradients of anthropogenic disturbance such as pollution, typically most severe at urban waterfronts. These variations create stress for local organisms leading to their distribution along the disturbance as a function of their tolerance. non-indigenous species (NIS) are considered more tolerant to anthropogenic disturbances than their native counterparts, thriving in u...

In this Collective Article on alien and cryptogenic diversity in the Mediterranean Sea we report a total of 19 species belonging to nine Phyla and coming from nine countries. Several of these records concern fish species, and of particular interest are the first records of: Terapon puta for Italian waters; Pteragopus trispilus from Malta; Plotosus lineatus from Cyprus; and the northernmost Mediterranean record of Lagocephalus...