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Mediterranean Marine Ecosystems

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  • © 1985

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Editors:
  1. Maria Moraitou-Apostolopoulou

    1. Zoological Laboratory, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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  2. Vassili Kiortsis

    1. Zoological Laboratory, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

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Part of the book series: Nato Conference Series (NATOCS, volume 8)

Part of the book sub series: I Ecology (E)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-viii
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  2. Ecological Factors and their Biogeographic Consequences in the Mediterranean Ecosystems

    • Michele Sara
    Pages 1-17

  3. The Mediterranean Benthos: Reflections and Problems Raised by a Classification of the Benthic Assemblages

    • D. Bellan-Santini
    Pages 19-48

  4. On the Biogeography of the Benthic Algae of the Mediterranean

    • Francesco Cinelli
    Pages 49-56

  5. Distribution and Ecology of Endemic Elements in the Mediterranean Fauna (Fishes and Echinoderms)

    • Enrico Tortonese
    Pages 57-83

  6. Mediterranean Sea Meiobenthos

    • Jacques Soyer
    Pages 85-108

  7. The Deep Mediterranean Benthos

    • Gaston Fredj, Lucien Laubier
    Pages 109-145

  8. The Eastern Mediterranean Shelf Ecosystem in Global Connexion Including some Biological and Geological Implications

    • G. Høpner Petersen
    Pages 147-162

  9. Effects of Pollution and Man-Made Modifications on Marine Benthic Communities in the Mediterranean: A Review

    • Gérard Bellan
    Pages 163-194

  10. The Effects of the Geological and Physico-chemical Factors on the Distribution of Marine Plants and Animals in the Mediterranean

    • Mihai Băcescu
    Pages 195-212

  11. Environmental Control of the Mesoscale Distribution of Primary Producers and its Bearing to Primary Production in the Western Mediterranean

    • Ramon Margalef
    Pages 213-229

  12. Phytoplankton Production in Oligotrophic Marine Ecosystems: The Mediterranean Sea

    • Trevor Platt
    Pages 231-246

  13. Deep Phytoplankton and Chlorophyll Maxima in the Western Mediterranean

    • Marta Estrada
    Pages 247-277

  14. Features and Peculiarities of Zooplankton Communities from the Western Mediterranean

    • R. Gaudy
    Pages 279-301

  15. The Zooplankton Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean (Levantine Basin, Aegean Sea); Influence of Man-Made Factors

    • M. Moraitou-Apostolopoulou
    Pages 303-331

  16. Processes of Differentiation Between Mediterranean Populations of the Super-Species Tisbe clodiensis Battaglia and Fava (1968) (Copepoda)

    • Giancarlo Fava, Bruno Battaglia
    Pages 333-346

  17. Evolutionary and Zoogeographical Remarks on the Mediterranean Fauna of Brachyuran Crabs

    • Carlos Almaça
    Pages 347-366

  18. The Impact of the Lessepsian (Suez Canal) Fish Migration on the Eastern Mediterranean Ecosystem

    • A. Ben-Tuvia
    Pages 367-375

  19. Mediterranean Marine Ecosystems: Establishment of Zooplanktonic Communities in Transitional and Partly Isolated Areas

    • V. Kiortsis
    Pages 377-385

  20. Back Matter

    Pages 387-407
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About this book

This book contains the papers presented at a NATO Advanced Research Institute on "Mediterranean Marine Ecosystems", held at Heraklion-Crete, Greece, from September 23-27, 1983. A workshop rather than a conference, it was sponsored by the Eco-Sciences Special Programme Panel, in cooperation with the Marine Science Panel. The third of its kind, it was scheduled in the framework of a project on a multidisciplinary integrated approach to the study of the Mediterranean. This Sea and the surrounding land was not only the cradle of many civilizations but is, up to the present time, one of the major world areas of marine traffic, communication and exchanges, fisheries and aquacultures, inshore human activities and ••• pollu­ tion. To a certain degree it constitutes a gigantic natural labo­ ratory, where the fate of threatened aquatic and terrestrial eco­ systems including the human one, is tested. The Mediterranean Sea, with its geological history and present­ day geographic, hydrological and climatic conditions is believed to form an ecological entity. Important exchanges and mutual influences take place with the surrounding land area and the water masses, naturally (Atlantic, Black Sea) or artificially (Red Sea), connected to the Mediterranean. Therefore, a better and in-depth knowledge of the various ecosystems, benthic, planktonic and nektonic, neritic or pelagic, in the Western or the Eastern Basin seems to be a pre­ requisite to any action in preserving, upgrading and managing the natural resources of the area.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Zoological Laboratory, University of Athens, Athens, Greece

    Maria Moraitou-Apostolopoulou, Vassili Kiortsis

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Mediterranean Marine Ecosystems

  • Editors: Maria Moraitou-Apostolopoulou, Vassili Kiortsis

  • Series Title: Nato Conference Series

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-2248-9

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 1985

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-306-41910-2Published: 01 March 1985

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-2250-2Published: 06 July 2013

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4899-2248-9Published: 11 November 2013

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: VIII, 408

  • Topics: Physics, general

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