Mark Dimech

Accelerating extinction risk from climate change

A Global Crisis for Seagrass Ecosystems

Benthic input rates predict seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) fish farm-induced decline

Distribution and importance of microplastics in the marine environment: A review of the sources, fate, effects, and potential solutions

Floating debris in the Mediterranean Sea

Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review of the emerging threats, identification of knowledge gaps and prioritisation of research needs

Microplastics in freshwater systems: A review on occurrence, environmental effects, and methods for microplastics detection

The performance and potential of protected areas

Increase of litter at the Arctic deep-sea observatory HAUSGARTEN

The impact of debris on marine life

The Mediterranean Sea as a ‘cul‐de‐sac’ for endemic fishes facing climate change

Predicted growth in plastic waste exceeds efforts to mitigate plastic pollution

Impact of fish farms on maerl beds in strongly tidal areas

Open‐water integrated multi‐trophic aquaculture: environmental biomitigation and economic diversification of fed aquaculture by extractive aquaculture

Climate change and interconnected risks to sustainable development in the Mediterranean

The global threat from plastic pollution

Marine Anthropogenic Litter

Seagrass (Posidonia oceanica) vertical growth as an early indicator of fish farm-derived stress

Risk assessment of the environmental impact of Norwegian Atlantic salmon farming

Evaluating the biological effectiveness of fully and partially protected marine areas

Aquaculture environment interactions: Past, present and likely future trends

The Mediterranean Sea under siege: spatial overlap between marine biodiversity, cumulative threats and marine reserves

Degradation Rates of Plastics in the Environment

The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection

A scoping review of scoping reviews: advancing the approach and enhancing the consistency

An overview of commercial fishers’ attitudes towards marine protected areas

Megafauna of vulnerable marine ecosystems in French mediterranean submarine canyons: Spatial distribution and anthropogenic impacts

Deep-sea litter: a comparison of seamounts, banks and a ridge in the Atlantic and Indian Oceans reveals both environmental and anthropogenic factors impact accumulation and composition

Changes in the structure of a Posidonia oceanica meadow and in the diversity of associated decapod, mollusc and echinoderm assemblages, resulting from inputs of waste from a marine fish farm (Malta, Central Mediterranean)

Effectiveness of European Atlanto-Mediterranean MPAs: Do they accomplish the expected effects on populations, communities and ecosystems?

Ecosystem effects of fishing on the continental slope in the Central Mediterranean Sea

Marine litter from circalittoral and deeper bottoms off the Maltese islands (Central Mediterranean)

LITTER AS A SOURCE OF HABITAT ISLANDS ON DEEP WATER MUDDY BOTTOMS

Fishers’ perception of a 35-year old exclusive Fisheries Management Zone

Structural changes in a Posidonia oceanica meadow exposed to a pollution gradient from a marine fish-farm in Malta (Central Mediterranean)

Differences in demersal community structure and biomass size spectra within and outside the Maltese Fishery Management Zone (FMZ)