What’s new in marine botany of the Eastern Mediterranean?

Christos I. Katsaros; Sotiris  Orfanidis; Frithjof Kuepper

What’s new in marine botany of the Eastern Mediterranean?

Christos I. Katsaros, Sotiris Orfanidis, Frithjof Kuepper^* (Corresponding Author)

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Abstract

This Editorial provides a topical review of East Mediterranean phycology and seagrass biology, with a special focus on the outcomes of the multi-year project “Brown algal biodiversity and ecology in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea” supported by the TOTAL Foundation. Following a general overview of East Mediterranean seaweed biogeography and taxonomy, the review covers seagrasses, deep-water (circalittoral) macroalgal diversity, pathogens and algal defence, human impacts and biotic indices, alien species as well as the papers of this special issue

Original language	English
Journal	Botanica Marina
Publication status	Accepted/In press - 11 Jul 2022

Keywords

Croatia
Cyprus
Greece
seagrasses
seaweeds
Turkey

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note = "Acknowledgements We would like to acknowledge many years of funding support from the TOTAL Foundation (Paris) within the framework of the project “Brown algal biodiversity and ecology in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea” which has enabled and inspired much of the work covered in this editorial and this special issue. Special thanks go to Laure Fournier (TOTAL Foundation) for her support through inspiring discussions, mentoring and networking. ",

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