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The Mass Mortality Events database (hereafter MME-T-MEDNet) is a collaborative initiative involving more than 30 research institutions from 10 Mediterranean countries including EU and non-EU countries. This initiative aims to facilitate the access to information (published in scientific journals and gray literature or still unpublished) related to Mediterranean Mass Mortality Events (MMEs).
Citation: Garrabou, Joaquim; Bazairi, Hocein; Espinosa, Free; Ramdani, Mohamed; Grimes, Samir; Benabdi, Mouloud; Ben Souissi, Jamila; Soufi, Emna; Khamassi, Faten; Ghanem, Raouia; Ocaña, Óscar; Ramos Esplá, Alfonso A.; Izquierdo, Andrés; Antón, Irene; Portillo, Esther; Barberá, Carmen; Marbà, Núria; Hendriks, Iris E.; Duarte, Carlos M.; Cebrian, Emma; Deudero Company, María de la Salud; Díaz, David; Vázquez-Luis, Maite; Álvarez, Elvira; Linares, Cristina; Hereu, Bernat; Kersting, D. K.; Bensoussan, Nathaniel; Gómez-Gras, D.; Azzurro, Ernesto; Ledoux, J. B.; Gori, Andrea; Viladrich, Nuria; Sartoretto, Stéphane; Pairaud, Ivane Lilian; Ruitton, Sandrine; Fraschetti, Simonetta; Rivetti, Irene; Cerrano, Carlo; Ponti, Massimo; Bavestrello, G.; Cattaneo-Vietti, R.; Bo, Marzia; Bertolino, Marco; Montefalcone, Monica; Kipson, Silvija; Bakran-Petricioli, Tatjana; Gerovasileiou, Vasilis; Sini, Maria; Tuney Kizilkaya, Inci; Zilizkaya, Zafer; Eda Topçu, N.; Rilov, Gil ; 2018; "MME-T-MEDNet: Mass mortality events in Mediterranean marine coastal ecosystems [Dataset]"; DIGITAL.CSIC; http://dx.doi.org/10.20350/digitalCSIC/8575
Published: September 17, 2025 at 08:37
URL: http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=mme-t-mednet
Joaquim Garrabou
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Institute of Marine Sciences
Carlos Duarte
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competiveness; Instituto Español de Oceanografía; Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares
Jean-Pierre Gattuso
Sorbonne Université; Sorbonne Université/CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche
Iris Hendriks
Universitat de les Illes Balears; Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados
Samir Grimes
National high school of sea science and coastal development
Carlo Cerrano
Polytechnic University of Marche; Faculty of Sciences; Department of Life and Environmental Sciences
Cristina Linares
Universitat de Barcelona; Facultat Biologia; Departament de Biologia Evolutiva, Ecologia i Ciències Ambientals; Institut de Recerca de Biodiversitat
Jean-Baptiste Ledoux
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Institute of Marine Sciences
Simonetta Fraschetti
Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples
Vasilis Gerovasileiou
Hellenic Centre for Marine Research; Institute of Marine Biology, Biotechnology and Aquaculture
Massimo Ponti
University of Bologna; Department of Biological, Geological and Environmental Sciences
Daniel Gómez-Gras
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Institute of Marine Sciences
Nathaniel Bensoussan
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Institute of Marine Sciences
Alfonso Ángel Ramos Espla
The University of Alicante
Nuria Marbá
Universitat de les Illes Balears; Instituto Mediterraneo de Estudios Avanzados
Salud Deudero Company
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competiveness; Instituto Español de Oceanografía; Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares
Eva Turicchia
University of Bologna
Paula López-Sendino
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Institute of Marine Sciences
Hocein Bazairi
Université Mohammed V Agdal; Faculté des Sciences de Rabat; BioBio Research Center; BIOECOGEN Laboratory
Free Espinosa
University of Sevilla; Laboratorio di Biologia Marina
Mohammed Ramdani
Université Mohammed V Agdal; Institut Scientifique de Rabat
Mouloud Benabdi
University of Oran Es-Senia; Laboratoire Réseau de Surveillance Environnementale
Jamila Ben Souissi
Tunis El Manar University
Emna Soufi
Tunis El Manar University
Faten Khamassi
Tunis El Manar University
Raouia Ghanem
Tunis El Manar University
Oscar Ocaña Vicente
Museo del Mar de Ceuta
Andres Izquierdo
The University of Alicante; Centro de Investigación Marina
Carmen Barbera
The University of Alicante; Departamento Ciencias del Mar y Biología Aplicada
Maite Vázquez-Luis
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competiveness; Instituto Español de Oceanografía; Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares
Elvira Alvarez
Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competiveness; Instituto Español de Oceanografía; Centro Oceanográfico de Baleares
Andrea Gori
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Institute of Marine Sciences
Stephane Sartoretto
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
Sandrine Ruitton
Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer
Elodie Rouanet
Observatoire des Sciences de l'Univers
Nuria Teixidó
Sorbonne Université
Irene Rivetti
University of Naples; Department of Biology
Ernesto Azzurro
Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples
Giorgio Bavestrello
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
Riccardo Cattaneo-Vietti
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
Marzia Bo
University of Genova; Facoltà di Scienze Matematiche Fisiche e Naturali; Department of Earth, Environmental and Life Sciences
Marco Bertolino
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
Monica Montefalcone
Stazione Zoologica 'Anton Dohrn' of Naples
Giovanni Chimienti
National Interuniversity Consortium For Marine Sciences
Daniele Grech
International Marine Centre
Gil Rilov
Israel Oceanographic and Limnological Research Ltd.; National Institute of Oceanography
Zafer Kizilkaya
Mediterranean Conservation Society
Maria Sini
University of the Aegean; Department of marine sciences
Tatjana Bakran-Petricioli
University of Zagreb; Faculty of Science; Department of Biology
Esther Rubio-Portillo
The University of Alicante; Departamento de Fisología, Genética y Microbiología
Núria Viladrich
Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Científicas; Institute of Marine Sciences
Gérard Pergent
Universita di Corsica
Christine Pergent-Martini
Universita di Corsica
Inci Tuney Kizilkaya
Ege University; Faculty of Science; Department of Biology
Jean G. Harmelin
Université Aix-Marseille III
Nur Eda Topçu
University of Istanbul; Faculty of Aquatic Sciences; Department of Marine Biology
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ)
Silvija Kipson
University of Zagreb; Faculty of Science; Department of Biology
| Field | Missing | Invalid | |
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| coordinateUncertaintyInMeters | 710 |
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| maximumDepthInMeters | 131 |
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| minimumDepthInMeters | 343 |
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The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.
| Flag | Dropped | Records | |
|---|---|---|---|
| NO_DEPTH | 131 |
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| ON_LAND | 77 |
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| DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH | 52 |
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