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Most cited papers from The Mediterranean Science Commission

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What are the most cited papers from The Mediterranean Science Commission?

The most cited paper from The Mediterranean Science Commission is "Consequences of climate-driven biodiversity changes for ecosystem functioning of North European rocky shores" (SJ Hawkins, HE Sugden, Nova Mieszkowska et al., 2009), with 274 citations. Next come "Tracking Signals of Change in Mediterranean Fish Diversity Based on Local Ecological Knowledge" (205) and "A global map of coastal recreation values: Results from a spatially explicit meta-analysis" (197).

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Most cited papers, sortable by citations and release date
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1 Consequences of climate-driven biodiversity changes for ecosystem functioning of North European rocky shores SJ Hawkins, HE Sugden, Nova Mieszkowska et al. · Marine Ecology Progress Series Open access 26 Oct 2009 274
2 Tracking Signals of Change in Mediterranean Fish Diversity Based on Local Ecological Knowledge Ernesto Azzurro, Paula Moschella, Francesc Maynou · PLoS ONE Open access 22 Sep 2011 205
3 A global map of coastal recreation values: Results from a spatially explicit meta-analysis Andrea Ghermandi, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes · Ecological Economics Open access 4 Dec 2012 197
4 Climate change, biological invasions, and the shifting distribution of Mediterranean fishes: A large‐scale survey based on local ecological knowledge Ernesto Azzurro et al. · Global Change Biology 20 May 2019 176
5 Using Meta-Analysis and GIS for Value Transfer and Scaling Up: Valuing Climate Change Induced Losses of European Wetlands Luke Brander, Ingo Bräuer, Holger Gerdes et al. · Environmental and Resource Economics Open access 29 Dec 2011 145
6 Contribution of crenarchaeal autotrophic ammonia oxidizers to the dark primary production in Tyrrhenian deep waters (Central Mediterranean Sea) Michail M. Yakimov, Violetta La Cono, Francesco Smedile et al. · The ISME Journal Open access 6 Jan 2011 132
7 Microbial community of the deep‐sea brine L ake K ryos seawater–brine interface is active below the chaotropicity limit of life as revealed by recovery of mRNA Michail M. Yakimov, Violetta La Cono, Gina La Spada et al. · Environmental Microbiology Open access 6 Aug 2014 125
8 Valuation of ecosystem services provided by coastal wetlands in northwest Mexico Vera Camacho-Valdéz, Arturo Ruiz‐Luna, Andrea Ghermandi et al. · Ocean & Coastal Management 19 Mar 2013 122
9 Analyzing the Social Factors That Influence Willingness to Pay for Invasive Alien Species Management Under Two Different Strategies: Eradication and Prevention Marina García‐Llorente, Berta Martín‐López, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes et al. · Environmental Management Open access 14 Mar 2011 115
10 Economic Assessment of Forest Ecosystem Services Losses: Cost of Policy Inaction Aline Chiabai, Chiara Maria Travisi, Anil Markandya et al. · Environmental and Resource Economics Open access 10 May 2011 110
11 Impacts of ocean acidification in a warming Mediterranean Sea: An overview Thomas Lacoue‐Labarthe, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, Patrizia Ziveri et al. · Regional Studies in Marine Science Open access 21 Dec 2015 107
12 Beach ‘lovers’ and ‘greens’: A worldwide empirical analysis of coastal tourism Laura Onofri, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes · Ecological Economics 21 Feb 2013 106
13 Primary producing prokaryotic communities of brine, interface and seawater above the halocline of deep anoxic lake L'Atalante, Eastern Mediterranean Sea Michail M. Yakimov, Violetta La Cono, Renata Denaro et al. · The ISME Journal Open access 4 Oct 2007 97
14 Symbiosis between nanohaloarchaeon and haloarchaeon is based on utilization of different polysaccharides Violetta La Cono, Enzo Messina, Manfred Rohde et al. · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences Open access 5 Aug 2020 94
15 Historical comparisons reveal multiple drivers of decadal change of an ecosystem engineer at the range edge Louise B. Firth, Nova Mieszkowska, Lisa M. Grant et al. · Ecology and Evolution Open access 15 Jul 2015 94
16 Unveiling microbial life in new deep‐sea hypersaline Lake Thetis . Part I: Prokaryotes and environmental settings Violetta La Cono, Francesco Smedile, Giovanni Bortoluzzi et al. · Environmental Microbiology 25 Apr 2011 93
17 A choice experiment study for land-use scenarios in semi-arid watershed environments Marina García‐Llorente, Berta Martín‐López, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes et al. · Journal of Arid Environments 17 Sep 2012 90
18 Microbial life in the Lake Medee, the largest deep-sea salt-saturated formation Michail M. Yakimov, Violetta La Cono, Vladlen Z. Slepak et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 19 Dec 2013 90
19 137Cs baseline levels in the Mediterranean and Black Sea: A cross-basin survey of the CIESM Mediterranean Mussel Watch programme H. Thébault, Alessia M. Rodriguez y Baena, Bruno Andral et al. · Marine Pollution Bulletin Open access 2008 75
20 Metagenomic analysis of hadopelagic microbial assemblages thriving at the deepest part of Mediterranean Sea, Matapan‐Vavilov Deep Francesco Smedile, Enzo Messina, Violetta La Cono et al. · Environmental Microbiology 3 Jul 2012 71
21 Towards improved socio-economic assessments of ocean acidification’s impacts Nathalie Hilmi, Denis Allemand, Sam Dupont et al. · Marine Biology Open access 20 Aug 2012 67
22 Heavy Metals in the Sea CucumberHolothuria tubulosa(Echinodermata) from the MediterraneanPosidonia oceanicaEcosystem: Body Compartment, Seasonal, Geographical and Bathymetric Variations Michel Warnau, Sandrine Dutrieux, Gilles Ledent et al. · Environmental Bioindicators Dec 2006 58
23 The role of environmental biotechnology in exploring, exploiting, monitoring, preserving, protecting and decontaminating the marine environment Nicolas E. Kalogerakis, Johanne Arff, Ibrahim Mohamed Banat et al. · New Biotechnology Open access 16 Apr 2014 58
24 The discovery of Lake Hephaestus, the youngest athalassohaline deep-sea formation on Earth Violetta La Cono, Giovanni Bortoluzzi, Enzo Messina et al. · Scientific Reports Open access 8 Feb 2019 39
25 Partaking of A rchaea to biogeochemical cycling in oxygen‐deficient zones of meromictic saline L ake F aro ( M essina, I taly) Violetta La Cono, Gina La Spada, Erika Arcadi et al. · Environmental Microbiology 29 Nov 2012 33
26 Universities should lead on the plant-based dietary transition Jochen Krattenmacher et al. · The Lancet Planetary Health Open access May 2023 31
27 First explorations: ontogeny of central place foraging directions in two tropical seabirds Julien Collet, Aurélien Prudor, Alexandre Corbeau et al. · Behavioral Ecology 13 Mar 2020 26
28 Marine, Aerobic Hydrocarbon-Degrading Gammaproteobacteria: The Family Alcanivoracaceae Michail M. Yakimov, Peter N. Golyshin, Francesca Crisafi et al. Book chapter 2019 24
29 Contribution of Bicarbonate Assimilation to Carbon Pool Dynamics in the Deep Mediterranean Sea and Cultivation of Actively Nitrifying and CO2-Fixing Bathypelagic Prokaryotic Consortia Violetta La Cono, Gioachino Ruggeri, Maurizio Azzaro et al. · Frontiers in Microbiology Open access 19 Jan 2018 23
30 A Three-Component Microbial Consortium from Deep-Sea Salt-Saturated Anoxic Lake Thetis Links Anaerobic Glycine Betaine Degradation with Methanogenesis Violetta La Cono, Erika Arcadi, Gina La Spada et al. · Microorganisms Open access 9 Sep 2015 23
31 Heterotrophic bicarbonate assimilation is the main process of de novo organic carbon synthesis in hadal zone of the H ellenic T rench, the deepest part of M editerranean S ea Michail M. Yakimov, Violetta La Cono, Francesco Smedile et al. · Environmental Microbiology Reports Open access 24 Jun 2014 23
32 Assessing the impact of biodiversity on tourism flows: an econometric model for tourist behaviour with implications for conservation policy María L. Loureiro, Giulia Macagno, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes et al. · Journal of Environmental Economics and Policy 8 Jun 2012 22
33 The social dimension of biodiversity policy in the European Union: Valuing the benefits to vulnerable communities Andrea Ghermandi, Helen Ding, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes · Environmental Science & Policy 8 Jul 2013 21
34 Shifts in the meso‐ and bathypelagic archaea communities composition during recovery and short‐term handling of decompressed deep‐sea samples Violetta La Cono, Francesco Smedile, Gina La Spada et al. · Environmental Microbiology Reports 13 Feb 2015 20
35 Genomic signatures of fifth autotrophic carbon assimilation pathway in bathypelagic Crenarchaeota Violetta La Cono, Francesco Smedile, Manuel Ferrer et al. · Microbial Biotechnology Open access 9 Jul 2010 19
36 Biodiversity-based development in Small Island Developing States Sonja Sabita Teelucksingh, Paulo A.L.D. Nunes, Charles A. Perrings · Environment and Development Economics 14 May 2013 16
37 Differential polysaccharide utilization is the basis for a nanohaloarchaeon : haloarchaeon symbiosis Violetta La Cono, Enzo Messina, Manfred Rohde et al. · bioRxiv (Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory) PreprintOpen access 7 Oct 2019 13
38 Interplay of intracellular and trans‐cellular DNA methylation in natural archaeal consortia Oleg N. Reva, Violetta La Cono, Francesca Crisafi et al. · Environmental Microbiology Reports Open access Apr 2024 10
39 Hindsight informs foresight: revisiting millennial forecasts of impacts and status of rocky shores in 2025 Stephen John Hawkins et al. · Marine Pollution Bulletin 12 Jun 2025 6
40 Integrated Analysis of Gene Expression, Protein Synthesis, and Epigenetic Modifications in Alcanivorax borkumensis SK2 Under Iron Limitation Francesco Smedile, Renata Denaro, Francesca Crisafi et al. · Environmental Microbiology Reports Open access Jun 2025 5
41 Evaluation of the fatigue macro-cracking behavior of crumb rubber modified bituminous mixes Fernando Moreno-Navarro, M.C. Rubio-Gámez, E. Tomás-Fortún et al. · Materiales de Construcción Open access Aug 2014 5
42 Material transfer agreements: An economic and econometric analysis Laura Onofri · Ecological Economics 26 Sep 2014 3
43 РЕЗУЛЬТАТЫ НАБЛЮДЕНИЙ ЗА ПТИЦАМИ И ДЕЛЬФИНАМИ В СЕВЕРО-ВОСТОЧНОЙ ЧАСТИ ЧЁРНОГО МОРЯ В КОНЦЕ ЯНВАРЯ - НАЧАЛЕ ФЕВРАЛЯ 2022 ГОДА Букреев Сергей Анатольевич, Мендес Лориана · cyberleninka.ru Open access 2022 0
44 The shifting distribution of Mediterranean fishes: a spatio-temporal assessment based on Local Ecological Knowledge. Ernesto Azzurro et al. · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research) Open access 22 May 2019 0
45 Navigating the Future: Cross-sector Marine Genomics Laura M. Giuliano, Antje Labes, Marlis Reich et al. · Marine Genomics Dec 2017 0
46 “Scientists versus Whaling”: Whose Errors of Judgment? Gordon H. Orians, Frédéric Briand, Jared M. Diamond et al. · BioScience Open access 2003 0

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