Vol.29 – 2023 – No.1

Introductory pages

Seasonal trend of nudibranchs (Gastropoda, Heterobranchia) along the central-eastern coast of Sicily (Mediterranean Sea)
Andrea Lombardo, Giuliana Marletta

Yet another giant for protection: Distribution and status of the bluntnose sixgill shark, Hexanchus griseus (Hexanchiformes: Hexanchidae), in Turkish seas
Hakan Kabasakal

Russian Federation-Ukraine War as an environmental security issue on the Black Sea
Nesrin Algan, Gökçe Karalezli Aydoğan

Effects of mucilage on the optical properties of water column in the Sea of Marmara
İ. Destan Öztürk, Dilek Ediger

Biodiversity and structure of macrofauna in the Karaburun-Ildır Bay Special Environmental Protected Area and adjacent waters (Central Aegean Sea-Türkiye)
Çetin Keskin, Onur Gönülal, Muammer Oral, Bülent Topaloğlu, Cem Dalyan

Further expansion of the alien marine green macroalga Caulerpa taxifolia var. distichophylla (Sonder) Verlaque, Huisman & Procacini in Türkiye
Ergün Taşkın, Alper Evcen, Furkan Bilgiç

Plastic lure ingestion by rough-toothed dolphin Steno bredanensis stranded on the northern coast of Cyprus
Tayfun Çanakcı, Özge Özden, Wayne Fuller, Itri Levent Erkol, Arda M. Tonay

Phyllorhiza punctata (Scyphozoa: Rhizostomeae) expands its distributional range to the North Aegean Sea
Melih Ertan Çınar, Okan Akyol, Aytaç Özgül

Evaluation of the pollution status after the rehabilitation works and the anthropogenic pressure factors of the Golden Horn Estuary (Sea of Marmara)
Hüsne Altıok, Ahsen Yüksek, Seyfettin Taş, Fuat Dursun, Selma Ünlü, Nuray Çağlar, Abdullah Aksu, Ömer S.Taşkın, Yaprak Gürkan, İ. Destan Öztürk,
Fatih M. Adatepe