Recent advances in understanding the ecology and functioning of submarine canyons in the Mediterranean Sea

The Mediterranean Sea, a land-locked and highly vulnerable sea, is one of the world’s marine basins with the highest concentrations of deep-sea canyons. The knowledge of the biology and ecology of Mediterranean canyons has increased notably in the last 20 years. The present paper aims at summarizing the new knowledge presented in the Special Issue of Progress in Oceanography entitled “Ecology and functioning of Mediterranean submarine canyons”,...