Aquatic Invasions in the Black, Caspian, and Mediterranean Seas

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-ix

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2. Mnemiopsis leidyi, Beroe ovata, and their interaction

   1. Mnemiopsis leidyi: Distribution and Effect on the Black Sea Ecosystem During the First Years of Invasion in Comparison with Other Gelatinous Blooms

      • Ulrich Niermann

      Pages 3-31

   2. Interactions between the invading ctenophores Mnemiopsis leidyi (A. Agassiz) and Beroe ovata Mayer 1912, and their influence on the Pelagic ecosystem of the Northeastern Black Sea

      • Tamara A. Shiganova, Henri J. Dumont, Alexander Mikaelyan, Dmitry M. Glazov, Yulia V. Bulgakova, Eteri I. Musaeva et al.

      Pages 33-70

   3. Population dynamics of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Caspian Sea, and effects on the Caspian ecosystem

      • Tamara A. Shiganova, Henri J. Dumont, Arkadyi F. Sokolsky, Andrey M. Kamakin, Dariga Tinenkova, Elena K. Kurasheva

      Pages 71-111

   4. Distribution and biology of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Northern Aegean Sea, and comparison with the indigenous Bolinopsis vitrea

      • Tamara A. Shiganova, Epaminondas D. Christou, Julia V. Bulgakova, Ioanna Siokou-Frangou, Soultana Zervoudaki, Apostolos Siapatis

      Pages 113-135

   5. Effects of Beroe cf ovata on gelatinous and other zooplankton along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

      • Lyudmilla Kamburska

      Pages 137-154

   6. Decreased levels of the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis in the Marmara Sea in 2001

      • Melek Isinibilir, Ahmet N. Tarkan, Ahmet E. Kideys

      Pages 155-165

   7. Preliminary investigation on the molecular systematics of The invasive ctenophore Beroe ovata

      • Keith M. Bayha, G. Richard Harbison, John H. Mcdonald, PatricK M. Gaffney

      Pages 167-175

   8. Introduction of Beroe cf ovata to the Caspian Sea needed to control Mnemiopsis leidyi

      • Stanislav P. Volovik, Irina G. Korpakova

      Pages 177-192

   9. Feeding, respiration and growth of ctenophore Beroe cf ovata in the low salinity conditions of the Caspian Sea

      • Ahmet E. Kideys, Galina A. Finenko, Boris E. Anninsky, Tamara A. Shiganova, Abdolghasem Roohi, Mojgan Rowshan Tabari et al.

      Pages 193-199

   10. A brief résumé of the status of the Mnemiopsis population in the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea according to observations during the first half of 2002

       • Firdouz M. Shakirova

       Pages 201-202

   11. Dynamics of Mnemiopsis distribution in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea in 2001–2002

       • Zulfugar M. Kuliyev

       Pages 203-204

   12. Investigation on the distribution and biomass of Mnemiopsis in the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian Sea in May 2002

       • Yulia A. Kim, L. V. Kwan, G. Demesinova

       Pages 205-205

3. Ponto-Caspian species invading Europe; information network

   1. Range extensions of Ponto-Caspian aquatic invertebrates in Continental Europe

      • Henk A. M. Ketelaars

      Pages 209-236

   2. Living in a sea of exotics — the Baltic case

      • Erkki LeppäKoski

      Pages 237-255

   3. Internet-based information resources on aquatic alien species relevant to the Ponto-Caspian Region

      • Vadim E. Panov

      Pages 257-269

4. Other Mediterranean Invaders

   1. Invasion of the Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca in the Northern Adriatic: a non-success story

      • Alenka Malej, Alenka Malej Jr

      Pages 273-285

   2. Caulerpa taxifolia: 18 years of infestation in the Mediterranean Sea

      • Thierry Thibaut, Alexandre Meinesz

      Pages 287-298

5. Conclusions from the meeting

   1. Conclusions from the meeting

      • Henri J. Dumont, Tamara A. Shiganova, Ulrich Niermann

      Pages 301-305

6. Back Matter

   Pages 307-313

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The present volume contains the presentations of a NATO advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled “The invasion of the Black, Mediterranean and Caspian Seas by the American Ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi Agassiz: a multidisciplinary perspective and a comparison with other aquatic invasions”, held on 24 - 26 June 2002 in Baku (Azerbaijan). The meeting was ?nanced by the NATO Division for Scienti?c and Environmental Affairs (Brussels); substantial logistic support was provided by the CEP (Caspian Environmental Program) of the GEF in Baku. The Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas represent three fragments of the former Tethys Sea, and are thus of great interest to understanding the evolution of the entire region where Eurasia, Africa and the Arabian Peninsula meet. While the Mediterranean is a typical marine environment, with salinity even a little above the world ocean’s, the Black Sea is a brackish meromictic lake, and the Caspian is a lake with a saline gradient extending from a freshwater basin in the North to a brackish water basin in the South. Intense ?shing activity takes place in all three seas, while maritime traf?c through the Dardanelles and Bosporus, and via the Lenin Canal (between the Don and Volga rivers) to the Caspian Sea has become greatly intensi?ed in the course of the last few decades.

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• Danube
• Fauna
• biomass
• ecosystem
• invertebrates
• plankton
• Model invertebrates

• Institute of Animal Ecology, University of Ghent, Ghent, Belgium

  Henri Dumont

• Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Russian Academy of Sciences, Moscow, Russia

  Tamara A. Shiganova

• Marine Ecology, Heiligenhafen, Germany

  Ulrich Niermann

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