Cai, C., Anton, A., Duarte, C.M. and Agusti, S., 2024. Spatial variations of nutrient and trace metal concentrations in macroalgae across blue carbon habitats of the Saudi Arabian Red Sea. Science of The Total Environment, 956, p.177197.

Tammam, M.A., Tsoureas, N., Diakaki, D.I., Duarte, C.M., Roussis, V. and Ioannou, E., 2024. Thuwalamides A–E: polychlorinated amides from the marine sponge Lamellodysidea herbacea collected from the Saudi Arabian Red Sea. Phytochemistry, p.114315.

Schmidt‐Roach, S., Knorr, T., Roch, C., Klaus, R., Klepac, C., Klein, S.G. and Duarte, C.M., 2024. Cost‐efficiency and effectiveness of coral restoration pathways. Restoration Ecology, p.e14326.

Duarte, C.M., Cousins, R., Ficociello, M.A., Williams, I.D. and Khowala, A., 2024. Advancing Global Climate and Biodiversity Goals Through Regenerative Tourism. Sustainability, 16(20), p.9133.

Mann, Hugo F., Natalie E. Wildermann, Chuancheng Fu, Hector Barrios-Garrido, Takahiro Shimada, Naira Pluma, and Carlos M. Duarte. "Green turtle tracking leads the discovery of seagrass blue carbon resources." Proceedings B 291, no. 2035 (2024): 20240502.

Ekelund, A., Waddington, A., Harris, S.D., Howe, W., Dersell, C., Josefsson, E., Olszewski, J., Tingåker, T., Yang, E., Duarte, C.M. and Gallagher, A.J., 2024. High-resolution, precision mapping of seagrass blue carbon habitat using multi-spectral imaging and aerial LiDAR. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, p.108832.

Morán XA, Calleja ML, Baltar F, Silva L, Ansari MI, de Albornoz PC, Duarte CM, Lønborg C. Substrate availability may limit the response of tropical bacterioplankton biomass to warming. Limnology and Oceanography. 2024 Aug 13.

Alghrably M, Tammam MA, Koutsaviti A, Roussis V, Lopez X, Bennici G, Sharfalddin A, Almahasheer H, Duarte CM, Emwas AH, Ioannou E. Metabolites from Marine Macroorganisms of the Red Sea Acting as Promoters or Inhibitors of Amylin Aggregation. Biomolecules. 2024 Aug 6;14(8):951.

Öğretmen N, Angulo-Preckler C, Aranda M, Duarte CM, Westphal H. The Northern Red Sea (Shushah Island) Coral Health Inferred from Benthic Foraminifers. Diversity. 2024 Aug 2;16(8):463.

Geraldi NR, Acinas SG, Alam I, Gasol JM, Fernández-de-Puelles ML, Giner CR, Hernández León S, Logares R, Massana R, Sánchez P, Bajic V. Assessing patterns of metazoans in the global ocean using environmental DNA. Royal Society Open Science. 2024 Aug 14;11(8):240724.

Breavington, J. A. V., Steckbauer, A., Fu, C., Ennasri, M., & Duarte, C. M. (2024). Dynamics of CO2 and CH4 fluxes in Red Sea mangrove soils. https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2024-1831

Fu C, Frappi S, Havlik MN, Wells H, Harris SD, Laiolo E, Gallagher AJ, Masqué P, Duarte CM. Significant carbonate burial in The Bahamas seagrass ecosystem. Environmental Research Letters. 2024 Sep 1;19(9):094036.

Fu, C., Steckbauer, A., Mann, H. et al. Achieving the Kunming–Montreal global biodiversity targets for blue carbon ecosystems. Nat Rev Earth Environ 5, 538–552 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s43017-024-00566-6

Rodríguez JP, Klemm K, Duarte CM, Eguíluz VM. Shipping traffic through the Arctic Ocean: Spatial distribution, seasonal variation, and its dependence on the sea ice extent. Iscience. 2024 Jul 19;27(7).

Sanz-Sáez I, Bravo AG, Ferri M, Carreras JM, Sánchez O, Sebastian M, Ruiz-González C, Capo E, Duarte CM, Gasol JM, Sánchez P. Microorganisms Involved in Methylmercury Demethylation and Mercury Reduction are Widely Distributed and Active in the Bathypelagic Deep Ocean Waters. Environmental Science & Technology. 2024 Jul 24.

Rivera Rosas DE, Geraldi NR, Glud RN, Oguri K, Haond SA, Duarte CM. A sedimentary DNA record of the Atacama Trench reveals biodiversity changes in the most productive marine ecosystem. Global Change Biology. 2024 Jul;30(7):e17412.

Gallagher, A. J., De Silva, C., Delaney, D., Harris, S. D., Phillips, B. T., Shipley, O. N., ... & Giddens, J. (2024). Novel behavioral observations and body scarring for the bluntnose sixgill shark (Hexanchus griseus) offer clues to reproductive patterns and potential mating events. Frontiers in Marine Science, 11, 1305487.

Vicario S, Terraneo TI, Bocanegra Castano C, Chimienti G, Oury N, Vimercati S, Hume BC, Marchese F, Nolan MK, Eweida AA, Purkis SJ. Lost in the dark: Antipatharia-Symbiodiniaceae association in the deep waters of the Red Sea. Frontiers in Marine Science. 2024 Apr 19;11:1330118.

Filbee-Dexter, K., Pessarrodona, A., Pedersen, M.F. et al. Carbon export from seaweed forests to deep ocean sinks. Nat. Geosci. (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41561-024-01449-7

Rodríguez JP, Irigoien X, Duarte CM, Eguíluz VM. Identification of suspicious behavior through anomalies in the tracking data of fishing vessels. EPJ Data Science. 2024 Dec 1;13(1):23.

Martynova A, Valluzzi L, Omar MS, Duarte CM. Discernible decline in macroplastic litter inputs to the central eastern Red Sea shoreline during the COVID-19 lockdown. Marine Pollution Bulletin. 2024 Apr 1;201:116264.

García-Escudero, C.A., Tsigenopoulos, C.S., Manousaki, T. et al. Population genomics unveils the century-old invasion of the Seagrass Halophila stipulacea in the Mediterranean Sea. Mar Biol 171, 40 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00227-023-04361-7

Blanco-Sacristán, J., Johansen, K., Elías-Lara, M. et al. Quantifying mangrove carbon assimilation rates using UAV imagery. Sci Rep 14, 4648 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-024-55090-w

Cai, C., Anton, A., Duarte, C.M. et al. Spatial Variations in Element Concentrations in Saudi Arabian Red Sea Mangrove and Seagrass Ecosystems: A Comparative Analysis for Bioindicator Selection. Earth Syst Environ (2024). https://doi.org/10.1007/s41748-024-00390-4

Ioannou, E., Koutsaviti, A., Kvasnicová, M., Gonzalez, G., Štenclová, T., Agusti, S., Duarte, C.M., Rarová, L., Strnad, M. and Roussis, V., 2024. Isolation and Bioactivity Evaluation of Sesquiterpenes from an Alcyonarian of the Genus Lemnalia from the Saudi Arabian Red Sea. Chemistry & Biodiversity, p.e202400235.

Chopin, T., B. A. Costa-Pierce, M. Troell, C.L. Hurd, M. J. Costello, S. Backman, A. Buschmann, R. Cuhel, C.M. Duarte, F. Gröndahl, K. Heasman, R. J. Haroun, J. Johansen, A. Jueterbock, M. Lench, S. Lindell, H. Pavia, A.M. Ricart, K.S. Sundell, C. Yarish. 2024. Deep-ocean seaweed dumping for carbon sequestration: questionable, risky and not the best use of valuable biomass. One Earth, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.oneear.2024.01.013.

Sanchez, P., F. Coutinho, M. Sebastián, M. Pernice, R. Rodríguez-Martínez, G. Salazar, F. Cornejo-Castillo, S. Pesant, X. López-Alforja, E.-M. López-García, S. Agustí, T. Gojobori, R. Logares, M.M. Sala, D. Vaqué, R. Massana, C.M. Duarte, S. Acinas, and J. M. Gasol. 2023. Marine picoplankton metagenomes and MAGs from eleven vertical profiles obtained by the Malaspina Expedition. Scientific Data 11, 154 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-02974-1

Sebastian, M., P. Sánchez, G. Salazar, X. A. Álvarez-Salgado, Is. Reche, X.A.G. Morán, M.M. Sala, C.M. Duarte, S.G. Acinas and J.M. Gasol. 2023. Water aging and the quality of organic carbon sources drive niche partitioning of the active bathypelagic prokaryotic microbiome. Limnology and Oceanography https://doi.org/10.1002/lno.12505

Angulo-Preckler C, Steckbauer A, Lim KK, Hissmann K, Pieribone V, Qurban M and Duarte CM (2024) In situ observation on two ‘elusive’ rhodaliid siphonophores (Cnidaria; Hydrozoa; Siphonophora) from the Red Sea, including a potential new species within the genus Archangelopsis. Front. Mar. Sci. 11:1338782.

Christiaanse, J.C., J.A. A. Antolínez, A.P. Luijendijk, P. Athanasiou, C.M. Duarte, and S. Aarninkhof. 2023. Distribution of global sea turtle nesting explained from regional-scale coastal characteristics. Scientific Reports 14, 752, https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-023-50239-5

Martynova, A., L. Genchi, S. P. Laptenok, M. Cusack, G.L. Stenchikov, C. Liberale, C.M. Duarte. 2023. Atmospheric microfibrous deposition over the Eastern Red Sea coast. Science of the Total Environment  907: 167902.

Fries, G., E.G. Smith, C. E. Lovelock, A. Ortega, A. Marshell. C.M. Duarte, and J. A. Burth. 2023. Rapid diversification of grey mangroves Avicennia marina driven by geographic isolation and extreme environmental conditions in the Arabian Peninsula. Molecular Ecology https://doi.org/10.1111/mec.17260

Geraldi, N., D. Krause-Jensen, S. B. Ørberg, L. Frühe, M. K. Sejr, J. L.S. Hansen, L. Lund-Hansen, and C. M. Duarte .2023. Environmental drivers of Arctic marine communities based on metabarcoding of sediment eDNA. Proceedings of the Royal Society B.2912023161420231614

Laiolo, E., I. Alam, M. Uludag, T. Jamil, S. Agusti, T. Gojobori, S. G. Acinas, J. M. Gasol and C.M. Duarte. 2024. Metagenomic probing toward an atlas of the taxonomic and metabolic foundations of the global ocean genome. Frontiers in Science Front Sci 1:1038696., doi: 10.3389/fsci.2023.1038696

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Logares, R., I. Deutschmann, E. Delage, C. Giner, M. Sebastián, J. Poulain, J. Arístegui, C.M. Duarte, S. Acinas, R. Massana, J.M. Gasol, D. Eveillard, and S. Chaffron. 2023. Disentangling microbial networks across pelagic zones in the tropical and subtropical global ocean.  Nature Communications 15, 126 (2024). https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-023-44550-y