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Ingvaldsen is Principal Investigator for the long-term monitoring of the marine climate of the Barents Sea and is leading the “The living Barents Sea” as part of the Nansen LEGACY project. [...] Past-president of the Italian Society of Ecology, of the Italian Society of Limnology and Oceanography and of the European Federation of Scientific Societies. [...] In recognition of her expertise in the dynamics and variability of the tropical and South Atlantic, she co-chairs the World Climate Research Program (WCRP) Atlantic Region Panel and is a member of the SSG of the international program “Prediction and Research Moored Array in the Tropical Atlantic”. [...] of Biological Sciences, University of Bergen and Bjerknes Center for Climate Research, Norway Natalya Gallo is a postdoctoral scholar in the Department of Biological Sciences at the University of Bergen and an affiliate of the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research. [...] In the context of a required increase in the extent of protected areas in the Mediterranean Sea in line with international objectives (30% of protected areas by 2030 of which 10% under high protection), this study aims to evaluate the impacts of climate change on the ecological efficiency of different large-scale MPA networks scenarios.