ABSTRACT: Cumulative impacts increasingly threaten marine and coastal ecosystems. To address this issue, the research community has invested efforts on designing and testing different methodological approaches and tools that apply cumulative impact appraisal schemes for a sound evaluation of the complex interactions and dynamics among multiple pressures affecting marine and coastal ecosystems. Through an iterat...
ABSTRACT: The colonization rate of Atlantic oceanic archipelagos by non-indigenous species of marine macroalgae has been shown to be higher than in continental locations. The NIS macroalgae list in the Azores that started to be compiled since the late eighties has been updated by data collected during the regional monitoring program of marine NIS. Under this program monitoring sites have been mainly located in ...