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  1. Triple threat: Ocean acidification, warming, and hyposalinity synergistically weaken shell integrity in a Mediterranean calcifying mollusk

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, April 2026, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  2. Functional and taxonomic diversity of intertidal macroalgae communities from a climate refugia hotspot

    Article • Marine Biology, January 2026, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  3. Temperature-mediated shifts in feeding behaviour and metabolism in an omnivorous rock pool prawn

    Article • PLOS One, December 2025, PLOS

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  4. Response of intertidal fucales to low-tide heat stress at their southern distributional limit

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, October 2025, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  5. Simulated intertidal heat stress on the brown seaweed Ascophyllum nodosum demonstrates differential population sensitivity to future climate

    Article • Journal of Ecology, April 2025, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  6. Intertidal Environmental Chamber: An automatic system to accurately simulate the thermal complexity of intertidal environments

    Article • Methods in Ecology and Evolution, March 2025, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  7. Optimizing Early Growth of Laminaria hyperborea in Controlled Settings: A Pathway to Improved Restoration Efforts

    Article • Phycology, January 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  8. Influence of Light Intensity and Temperature on the Development of Early Life Stages of Ascophyllum nodosum (Phaeophyceae)

    Article • Phycology, January 2025, MDPI AG

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  9. Potential backfiring effects of Marine Protected Areas on kelp herbivory

    Article • Scientific Reports, December 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  10. Revealing the Potential of Fucus vesiculosus Linnaeus for Cosmetic Purposes: Chemical Profile and Biological Activities of Commercial and Wild Samples

    Article • Marine Drugs, December 2024, MDPI AG

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  11. Heat Stress on the brown SeaweedAscophyllum nodosum: differential population sensitivity to future climate

    Article • October 2024, Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory Press

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  12. Benthic Incubation Chamber (BIC) for in-situ assessment of primary productivity in different canopy-forming communities

    Article • Marine Biology, August 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  13. What if the upwelling weakens? Effects of rising temperature and nutrient depletion on coastal assemblages

    Article • Oecologia, June 2024, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  14. Rapid tropicalization evidence of subtidal seaweed assemblages along a coastal transitional zone

    Article • Scientific Reports, July 2023, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  15. Combined effects of climate change and environmentally relevant mixtures of endocrine disrupting compounds on the fitness and gonads' maturation dynamics of Nucella lapillus (Gastropoda)

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, May 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  16. Forecasting distributional shifts of Patella spp. in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean, under climate change

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, April 2023, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  17. Range‐edge populations of seaweeds show niche unfilling and poor adaptation to increased temperatures

    Article • Journal of Biogeography, February 2023, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  18. Warning of warming limpets: sea temperature effects upon intertidal rocky assemblages

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, January 2023, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  19. What if the upwelling weakens? Effects of rising temperature and nutrient depletion on coastal assemblages

    Article • December 2022, Research Square

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  20. Setting Performance Indicators for Coastal Marine Protected Areas: An Expert-Based Methodology

    Article • Frontiers in Marine Science, June 2022, Frontiers

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  21. Ocean literacy gamified: A systematic evaluation of the effect of game elements on students’ learning experience

    Article • Environmental Education Research, October 2021, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  22. Understanding the local drivers of beta‐diversity patterns under climate change: The case of seaweed communities in Galicia, North West of the Iberian Peninsula

    Article • Diversity and Distributions, July 2021, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  23. Benthic estuarine communities' contribution to bioturbation under the experimental effect of marine heatwaves

    Article • Scientific Reports, June 2021, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  24. Immunological and oxidative stress responses of the bivalve Scrobicularia plana to distinct patterns of heatwaves

    Article • Fish & Shellfish Immunology, November 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  25. Sea urchin grazing preferences on native and non-native macroalgae

    Article • Ecological Indicators, April 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  26. Interactive effects of co-occurring anthropogenic stressors on the seagrass, Zostera noltei

    Article • Ecological Indicators, February 2020, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas, Dr Aschwin Hillebrand Engelen

  27. Effects of Water Acidification on Senegalese Sole Solea senegalensis Health Status and Metabolic Rate: Implications for Immune Responses and Energy Use

    Article • Frontiers in Physiology, January 2020, Frontiers

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  28. Snapshot of Macroalgae and Fish Assemblages in Temperate Reefs in the Southern European Atlantic Ecoregion

    Article • Diversity, January 2020, MDPI AG

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  29. Unexpected nutrient influence on the thermal ecophysiology of seaweeds that recently followed opposite abundance shifts

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, October 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  30. Direct and indirect effects of climate change squeeze the local distribution of a habitat-forming seaweed

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, September 2019, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  31. The Intertidal Zone of the North-East Atlantic Region

    Article • August 2019, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  32. Yield losses and electron transport rate as indicators of thermal stress in Fucus serratus (Ochrophyta)

    Article • Algal Research, August 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  33. Seasonal effect in nutritional quality and safety of the wild sea urchin Paracentrotus lividus harvested in the European Atlantic shores

    Article • Food Chemistry, June 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  34. Interaction of short-term copper pollution and ocean acidification in seagrass ecosystems: Toxicity, bioconcentration and dietary transfer

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  35. Who cares about ocean acidification in the Plasticene?

    Article • Ocean & Coastal Management, May 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas, Cosimo Solidoro

  36. The effect of sex, season and gametogenic cycle on gonad yield, biochemical composition and quality traits of Paracentrotus lividus along the North Atlantic coast of Portugal

    Article • Scientific Reports, February 2019, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  37. Genotoxic effects of combined multiple stressors on Gammarus locusta haemocytes: Interactions between temperature, pCO2 and the synthetic progestin levonorgestrel

    Article • Environmental Pollution, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  38. Invasive crayfishes as a threat to freshwater bivalves: Interspecific differences and conservation implications

    Article • The Science of The Total Environment, February 2019, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  39. Annual assessment of the sea urchin (Paracentrotus lividus) humoral innate immune status: Tales from the north Portuguese coast

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  40. Short-term variation of abundance of the purple sea urchin, Paracentrotus lividus (Lamarck, 1816), subject to harvesting in northern Portugal

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, October 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  41. Harnessing positive species interactions as a tool against climate-driven loss of coastal biodiversity

    Article • PLoS Biology, September 2018, PLOS

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  42. Proceedings of the XIX Iberian Symposium on Marine Biology Studies 2016 (Porto, Portugal)

    Article • Regional Studies in Marine Science, September 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  43. Seaweed assemblages under a climate change scenario: Functional responses to temperature of eight intertidal seaweeds match recent abundance shifts

    Article • Scientific Reports, August 2018, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  44. Physiological responses to variations in grazing and light conditions in native and invasive fucoids

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, August 2018, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  45. Successional convergence in experimentally disturbed intertidal communities

    Article • Oecologia, November 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  46. Interactive effects of increased temperature, p CO 2 and the synthetic progestin levonorgestrel on the fitness and breeding of the amphipod Gammarus locusta

    Article • Environmental Pollution, November 2017, Elsevier

    Eduardo Rocha, Dr Francisco Arenas

  47. Modulation of different kelp life stages by herbivory: compensatory growth versus population decimation

    Article • Marine Biology, July 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  48. The ‘golden kelp’ Laminaria ochroleuca under global change: Integrating multiple eco-physiological responses with species distribution models

    Article • Journal of Ecology, June 2017, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  49. Interaction strength between different grazers and macroalgae mediated by ocean acidification over warming gradients

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, April 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  50. The role of nutrient enrichment in the invasion process in intertidal rock pools

    Article • Hydrobiologia, March 2017, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  51. Nowhere safe? Exploring the influence of urbanization across mainland and insular seashores in continental Portugal and the Azorean Archipelago

    Article • Marine Pollution Bulletin, January 2017, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  52. Biodiversity effects on macroalgal productivity: exploring the roles of richness, evenness and species traits

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, December 2016, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  53. Ecological interactions modulate responses of two intertidal mussel species to changes in temperature and pH

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, January 2016, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  54. Spatial and temporal variation of kelp forests and associated macroalgal assemblages along the Portuguese coast

    Article • Marine & Freshwater Research, January 2016, CSIRO Publishing

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  55. Macroalgal Composition Determines the Structure of Benthic Assemblages Colonizing Fragmented Habitats

    Article • PLOS One, November 2015, PLOS

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  56. Additive effects of emersion stressors on the ecophysiological performance of two intertidal seaweeds

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, September 2015, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  57. Trade-offs between life-history traits at range-edge and central locations

    Article • Journal of Phycology, July 2015, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  58. Combined effects of wrack identity and solar radiation on associated beach macrofaunal assemblages

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, July 2015, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  59. European seaweeds under pressure: Consequences for communities and ecosystem functioning

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, April 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Aschwin Hillebrand Engelen, Dr Francisco Arenas

  60. Relationships between biodiversity and the stability of marine ecosystems: Comparisons at a European scale using meta-analysis

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, April 2015, Elsevier

    Professor Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Dr Francisco Arenas

  61. Feeding behaviour of an intertidal snail: Does past environmental stress affect predator choices and prey vulnerability?

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, March 2015, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  62. Alteration of Macroalgal Subsidies by Climate-Associated Stressors Affects Behavior of Wrack-Reliant Beach Consumers

    Article • Ecosystems, January 2015, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  63. Early patterns of recovery from disturbance in intertidal algal assemblages: consistency across regions within a marine province

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, December 2014, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  64. Stressor intensity determines antagonistic interactions between species invasion and multiple stressor effects on ecosystem functioning

    Article • Oikos, December 2014, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  65. Short-term effects of CO2, nutrients and temperature on three marine macroalgae under solar radiation

    Article • Aquatic Biology, November 2014, Inter-Research Science Center

    Angel Perez-Ruzafa, Dr Francisco Arenas, Prof DANIEL ROBLEDO

  66. Short-term effects of increasing CO2, nitrate and temperature on three Mediterranean macroalgae: biochemical composition

    Article • Aquatic Biology, November 2014, Inter-Research Science Center

    Angel Perez-Ruzafa, Dr Francisco Arenas, Prof DANIEL ROBLEDO

  67. Combining physiological threshold knowledge to species distribution models is key to improving forecasts of the future niche for macroalgae

    Article • Global Change Biology, July 2014, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  68. Biotic resistance and facilitation of a non-indigenous mussel vary with environmental context

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, June 2014, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  69. The regime of climate-related disturbance and nutrient enrichment modulate macroalgal invasions in rockpools

    Article • Biological Invasions, May 2014, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  70. Neighbourhood competition in coexisting species: The native Cystoseira humilis vs the invasive Sargassum muticum

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, May 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  71. Physiological response of fucoid algae to environmental stress: comparing range centre and southern populations

    Article • New Phytologist, March 2014, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  72. Functional responses of juvenile kelps, Laminaria ochroleuca and Saccorhiza polyschides, to increasing temperatures

    Article • Aquatic Botany, February 2014, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  73. Ecosystem functioning impacts of the invasive seaweedSargassum muticum(Fucales, Phaeophyceae)

    Article • Journal of Phycology, December 2013, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  74. Invasion of Sargassum muticum in intertidal rockpools: Patterns along the Atlantic Iberian Peninsula

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  75. Shifts from native to non-indigenous mussels: Enhanced habitat complexity and its effects on faunal assemblages

    Article • Marine Environmental Research, September 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  76. Large-Scale Variation in Combined Impacts of Canopy Loss and Disturbance on Community Structure and Ecosystem Functioning

    Article • PLOS One, June 2013, PLOS

    Professor Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Dr Francisco Arenas

  77. Role of top-down and bottom-up forces on the invasibility of intertidal macroalgal assemblages

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, February 2013, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  78. Functional diversity and climate change: effects on the invasibility of macroalgal assemblages

    Article • Biological Invasions, January 2013, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  79. Propagule pressure and functional diversity: interactive effects on a macroalgal invasion process

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, December 2012, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  80. Response of macroalgal assemblages from rockpools to climate change: effects of persistent increase in temperature and CO2

    Article • Oikos, December 2012, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  81. Patterns of landscape and assemblage structure along a latitudinal gradient in ocean climate

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, October 2012, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  82. Effects of Fishing and Regional Species Pool on the Functional Diversity of Fish Communities

    Article • PLOS One, August 2012, PLOS

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  83. Comparison of the assemblage functioning of estuary systems dominated by the seagrass Nanozostera noltii versus the invasive drift seaweed Gracilaria vermiculophylla

    Article • Journal of Sea Research, August 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Aschwin Hillebrand Engelen, Dr Francisco Arenas

  84. Spatial variability in intertidal macroalgal assemblages on the North Portuguese coast: consistence between species and functional group approaches

    Article • Helgoland Marine Research, July 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  85. The role of disturbance in differential regulation of co-occurring brown algae species: Interactive effects of sediment deposition, abrasion and grazing on algae recruits

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, July 2012, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  86. Physical factors driving intertidal macroalgae distribution: physiological stress of a dominant fucoid at its southern limit

    Article • Oecologia, April 2012, Springer Science + Business Media

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  87. Temporal stability of European rocky shore assemblages: variation across a latitudinal gradient and the role of habitat-formers

    Article • Oikos, March 2012, Wiley

    Professor Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Dr Francisco Arenas

  88. A Meta-Analysis of Seaweed Impacts on Seagrasses: Generalities and Knowledge Gaps

    Article • PLOS One, January 2012, PLOS

    Thomas Wernberg, Dr Aschwin Hillebrand Engelen, Dr Francisco Arenas

  89. Benthic assemblages of rock pools in northern Portugal: seasonal and between-pool variability

    Article • Scientia Marina, November 2011, Departmento de Publicaciones del CSIC

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  90. Does Carcinus maenas facilitate the invasion of Xenostrobus securis?

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, September 2011, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  91. Distribution and population dynamics of the introduced seaweed Grateloupia turuturu (Halymeniaceae, Rhodophyta) along the Portuguese coast

    Article • Phycologia, July 2011, Taylor & Francis

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  92. Canopy-forming species mediate the effects of disturbance on macroalgal assemblages on Portuguese rocky shores

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, September 2010, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  93. Diversity effects beyond species richness: evidence from intertidal macroalgal assemblages

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, April 2009, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  94. Interaction of top down and bottom up factors in intertidal rockpools: Effects on early successional macroalgal community composition, abundance and productivity

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, August 2008, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  95. Mechanisms of succession along the emersion gradient in intertidal rocky shore assemblages

    Article • Oikos, March 2008, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  96. Alien species and other notable records from a rapid assessment survey of marinas on the south coast of England

    Article • Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom, December 2006, Cambridge University Press

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  97. THE INVASIBILITY OF MARINE ALGAL ASSEMBLAGES: ROLE OF FUNCTIONAL DIVERSITY AND IDENTITY

    Article • Ecology, November 2006, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  98. A continental scale evaluation of the role of limpet grazing on rocky shores

    Article • Oecologia, February 2006, Springer Science + Business Media

    Professor Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Dr Francisco Arenas

  99. Spatial variation in the recruitment of the intertidal barnacles Chthamalus montagui Southward and Chthamalus stellatus (Poli) (Crustacea: Cirripedia) over an European scale

    Article • Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology, June 2004, Elsevier

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  100. Density-dependent regulation in an invasive seaweed: responses at plant and modular levels

    Article • Journal of Ecology, September 2002, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  101. European-scale analysis of seasonal variability in limpet grazing activity and microalgal abundance

    Article • Marine Ecology Progress Series, January 2001, Inter-Research Science Center

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  102. SIZE STRUCTURE AND DYNAMICS IN A POPULATION OFSARGASSUM MUTICUM(PHAEOPHYCEAE)

    Article • Journal of Phycology, December 2000, Wiley

    Dr Francisco Arenas

  103. Ecology of Sargassum muticum (Phaeophyta) on the North Coast of Spain. III. Reproductive Ecology

    Article • Botanica Marina, January 1998, De Gruyter

    Dr Francisco Arenas