Biodiversity assessment of marine hard-bottom communities is hindered by the high diversity
and size-ranges of the organisms present. We developed a DNA metabarcoding protocol …

Background The recent blooming of metabarcoding applications to biodiversity studies
comes with some relevant methodological debates. One such issue concerns the treatment of …

Arbacia lixula and Paracentrotus lividus are the dominant sea urchins in the Mediterranean
sublittoral, where they are key structuring species due to their grazing activity. It has been …

Metabarcoding is by now a well‐established method for biodiversity assessment in terrestrial,
freshwater, and marine environments. Metabarcoding data sets are usually used for α‐ …

We studied the effects of temperature and pH on larval development, settlement and juvenile
survival of a Mediterranean population of the sea urchin Arbacia lixula. Three temperatures …

We present the global phylogeography of the black sea urchin Arbacia lixula, an amphi-Atlantic
echinoid with potential to strongly impact shallow rocky ecosystems. Sequences of the …

We studied the reproductive cycle of the sea urchin Arbacia lixula in a subtidal population
from northeast Spain over four years using a gonadosomatic index (GSI) and gonad histology. …

We analysed with multigene (18S and COI) metabarcoding the effects of the proliferation of
invasive seaweeds on rocky littoral communities in two Spanish Marine Protected Areas. The …

Aim The Atlanto‐Mediterranean edible purple sea urchin, Paracentrotus lividus, is a
commercially exploited keystone species in benthic communities. Its browsing activity can deeply …

Aim It has been predicted that there should be concordance between biogeographical and
phylogeographical processes structuring multi‐species regional assemblages. We …