Dr Hocein Bazairi, BSc, MSc, PhD

Hocein Bazairi is a tenured Senior Professor at the Mohammed V University in Rabat (Morocco), with a PhD in Biological Oceanography. His main research and teaching are focused on marine and coastal ecosystems (biodiversity, functioning, Ecological Quality status, Environmental Impact Evaluation, Conservation, etc.) and currently on Marine and Coastal Protected Areas and nonindigenous species.

He is an expert on these topics for many national and international institutions (HCEFLCD-Morocco, PNUE-MAP-RAC/SPA-Tunisia, Conservatoire du Littoral-France, etc.). He has been involved in several national and international funded projects as an expert (MedWet, MECO, MEDCORE, WADI, MedMPA, CAMP Morocco, PEGASO, etc.) or as a national coordinator (MedMPAnet, MedKeyHabitats I and II, NTZ:MPA, IMAP/MPA, etc.). He has contributed to more than 70 peer-reviewed papers and five collective books.

Galanidi, M.; Aissi, M.; Ali, M.; Bakalem, A.; Bariche, M.; Bartolo, A.G.; Bazairi, H.; Beqiraj, S.; Bilecenoglu, M.; Bitar, G.; et al. (2023). Validated Inventories of Non-Indigenous Species (NIS) for the Mediterranean Sea as Tools for Regional Policy and Patterns of NIS Spread. Diversity 2023, 15, 962. https://doi.org/10.3390/d15090962

Oussellam M., Benhoussa A., Pariselle A., Rahmouni I., Salmi M., Agnèse J.F., Selfati M., El Ouamari N., Bazairi H. (2023). First and southern-most records of the American blue crab Callinectes sapidus Rathbun, 1896 (Decapoda, Portunidae) on the African Atlantic coast. BioInvasions Records 12(2): 403–416. https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2023.12.2.05

El Kamcha R., Boutoumit S., Bououarour O., Pouzet P., Maanan M., Benhoussa A., Bazairi H. (2023). New insights into the benthic macrofauna composition and structure in a southern-west Mediterranean coastal lagoon after restoration actions: Spatial and Seasonal patterns. Regional Studies in Marine Science, 60: 102820. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.rsma.2023.102820

Ragkousis M., …, Bazairi H., … et al. (2023). Unpublished Mediterranean and Black Sea records of marine alien, cryptogenic, and neonative species. BioInvasions Records 12(2): 339–369, https://doi.org/10.3391/bir.2023.12.2.01

Garrabou J., Gómez-Gras D., Medrano A., Cerrano C., Ponti M., Schlegel R., Bensoussan N., Turicchia E., Sini M., Gerovasileiou V., Teixido N., Mirasole A., Tamburello L., Cebrian E., Rilov G., Ledoux J.B., Ben Souissi J., Khamassi F., Ghanem R., Benabdi M., Grimes S., Ocaña O., Bazairi H., Hereu B., Linares C., Kersting D.K., La Rovira G., Ortega J., Casals D., Pagès-Escolà M., Margarit N., Capdevila P., Verdura J., Ramos A., Izquierdo A., Barbera C., Rubio-Portillo E., Anton I., López-Sendino P., Díaz D., Vázquez-Luis M., Duarte C., Marbà N., Aspillaga E., Espinosa F., Grech D., Guala I., Azzurro E., Farina S., Gambi M.C., Chimienti G., Montefalcone M., Azzola A., Mantas T.P., Fraschetti S., Ceccherelli G., Kipson S., Bakran-Petricioli T., Petricioli D., Jimenez C., Katsanevakis S., Kizilkaya I.T., Kizilkaya Z., Sartoretto S., Elodie R., Ruitton S., Comeau S., Gattuso J.P., Harmelin J.G. (2022). Marine heatwaves drive recurrent mass mortalities in the Mediterranean Sea. Global Change Biology, 00: 1-18. https://doi.org/10.1111/gcb.16301

Boutahar, L., Espinosa, F., & Bazairi, H. (2022). Reconstruction of Cymodocea nodosa’s dynamics as a tool to examine the conservation status of a Mediterranean declared marine protected area. Mediterranean Marine Science, 23(4): 754-765. http://doi.org/10.12681/mms.28238