Local Ecological Knowledge (LEK) from fishers and sea users is invaluable for reconstructing the occurrences of data deficient and vulnerable fish species, particularly target species. This study explores the distribution patterns of the data-deficient wreckfish Polyprion americanus in the Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean Sea) using semi-structured interviews with 40 sea users (27 fishers and 13 observational data providers). We...

Patella ferruginea is an endemic limpet of the Western Mediterranean Sea, presently considered the most threatened marine macroinvertebrate in the region and included in several international conservation directives. Its populations were widespread throughout the Western Mediterranean in the late Pleistocene (Tyrrhenian period), still largely distributed until the 19th century and presently confined into small populations in f...

During the last several decades, the Mediterranean littoral shallow water benthic communities have suffered significant changes in their structure and taxa composition. Despite numerous studies conducted to characterize these changes at various levels, it has always been very difficult to disentangle the effects of natural factors from anthropic ones. The main purpose of this work was to evaluate possible changes, over a 10‐ye...