Synthesis

Consensus regions, frontiers

Congruence raw or smoothed

Retained regionalisations

Spalding et al (2007) cleaned, raw

Mayot et al (2016) Cluster on climato. cleaned, raw

Palmieri (2014) cleaned, raw

Reygondeau et al (2017) Bioregions epipelagic cleaned, raw

Berline et al (2014) cleaned, raw

Rossi et al (2014) cleaned, raw

Nieblas et al (2014) cleaned, raw

Reygondeau et al (2014) Ecoregions pelagic cleaned, raw

Other regionalisations

D'Ortenzio and Ribera d'Alcalà (2009) cleaned, raw

Mayot et al (2016) Average cluster cleaned, raw

Palmieri (2014) Chl max cleaned, raw

Palmieri (2014) Chl surf cleaned, raw

Reygondeau (2017) Bathypelagic cleaned, raw

Reygondeau (2017) Mesopelagic cleaned, raw

Rossi et al (2014) PLD=60 cleaned, raw

Nieblas et al (2014) Classical cleaned, raw

Nieblas et al (2014) Mesoscale cleaned, raw

Reygondeau et al (2014) Ecoregions cleaned, raw

Reygondeau et al (2014) Contiguous cleaned, raw

Threats

Micheli et al. (2013) Cumulative Human Impacts on Mediterranean and Black Sea Marine Ecosystems: Assessing Current Pressures and Opportunities. PLoS ONE 8(12):e79889. data layers (NB: resolution reduced compared to original data)

Protection plans

Micheli et al. (2013) Setting Priorities for Regional Conservation Planning in the Mediterranean Sea. PLoS ONE 8(4):e59038. data layers (NB: resolution reduced compared to original data)

Bathymetry

Data from ETOPO1. 1 min, 4 min

This page displays the result of: Ayata SD, Irisson J-O, Aubert A, Berline L, Dutay JC, Mayot N, Nierblas A-E, d'Ortenzio F, Palmiéri J, Reygondeau G, Rossi V, Guieu C (2017) Regionalisation of the Mediterranean basin, a MERMEX synthesis, Progress in Oceanography 163:7-20 10.1016/j.pocean.2017.09.016. and should be cited as such.

This study was conducted as part of the WP5 MERMEX/MISTRALS project and is a contribution to the international SOLAS, IMBER and LOICZ programs. The lead authors are grateful to Pr. Philippe Koubbi (MNHN) for initiating (eco)regionalisation studies of the Mediterranean Sea at the Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche-sur-mer (LOV, UPMC/CNRS). Some initial thoughts that have led to this synthesis were also supported by the PlankMed action of WP5 MERMEX and by the EC FP7 PERSEUS Project. The authors are grateful to F Micheli and N Levin for openly sharing their data regarding cumulative impacts and conservation schemes in the Mediterranean Sea.

This application is powered by shiny and leaflet. Colours are extended from Harrower and Brewer (2003). The source code for it, as well as for the whole data analysis pipeline, by Jean-Olivier Irisson, is freely available at github, under the GPL v3 license.