The Eastern Mediterranean as a Laboratory Basin for the Assessment of Contrasting Ecosystems

1. Front Matter

   Pages i-xviii

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2. The Eastern Mediterranean in the 80’s and in the 90’s: The Big Transition Emerged from the Poem-Bc Observational Evidence

   • Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, Beniamino Manca, Maurizio Ribera d’Alcala, Alexander Theocharis

   Pages 1-6

3. Oceanographic Data Holdings in the Ukrainian Marine Centers for the Mediterranean Sea

   • V. N. Eremeev, A. M. Suvorov

   Pages 7-18

4. The study of a persistent warm core eddy in winter 1993 and the water mass formation in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea.

   • Alexander I. Kubryakov, Naum B. Shapiro

   Pages 19-31

5. Intraseasonal Large-Scale Anomalies of the Mediterranean Sea Surface Temperature

   • V. V. Efimov, A. V. Prusov, M. V. Shokurov

   Pages 33-47

6. Ecological Physiognomy of the Eastern Mediterranean

   • Maurizio Ribera D’alcalà, Maria Grazia Mazzocchi

   Pages 49-64

7. Type Definition of Vertical Chlorophyll Distribution in Contrasting Zones of the Mediterranean Sea

   • Oleg A. Yunev, Nadezhda A. Ostrovskaya, Zosim Z. Finenko

   Pages 65-80

8. Composition and Abundance of Zooplankton of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea

   • A. V. Kovalev, A. E. Kideys, E. V. Pavlova, A. A. Shmeleva, V. A. Skryabin, N. A. Ostrovskaya et al.

   Pages 81-95

9. Physiological Parameters and Problems of Energy Budget Estimation in Mediterranean and Black Sea Fishes

   • G. E. Shulman

   Pages 97-112

10. The Features of Geostrophic Circulation and Currents in the Eastern Mediterranean between the Syrian Coast and Cyprus Island in Winter and Summer

    • V. G. Krivosheya, I. M. Ovchinnikov, R. D. Kos’yan, V. B. Titov, L. V. Moskalenko, V. G. Yakubenko et al.

    Pages 113-126

11. Optical Studies by the MHI of the Eastern Mediterranean: Available Data and Some Results

    • V. I. Mankovsky, A. V. Mishonov, V. L. Vladimirov, M. V. Solov’ev

    Pages 127-139

12. Plankton Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean Coastal Waters

    • M. V. Flint, I. N. Sukhanova, E. G. Arashkevich, M. Baker, H. Taljo

    Pages 141-158

13. Composition of Bottom Communities and Quantitative Distribution of Macrozoobenthos in the Syrian Coastal Zone

    • N. V. Kucheruk, A. P. Kuznetsov, P. V. Rybnikov, Saker Fayes

    Pages 159-168

14. Abundance and Biomass of Phytoplankton and Chlorophyll Concentration in Eastern Mediterranean in Late Summer Period

    • I. N. Sukhanova, O. V. Maksimova, N. P. Nezlin

    Pages 169-179

15. Modeling Plankton Production in the Eastern Mediterranean: Application of a 1-D Vertically-Resolved Physical-Biological Model to the Ionian and Rhodes Basins

    • Ernesto Napolitano, Temel Oguz, Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli, Emilio Sansone

    Pages 181-204

16. Plankton Characteristics in the Aegean, Ionian and NW Levantine Seas

    • I. Siokou-Frangou, O. Gotsis-Skretas, E. D. Christou, K. Pagou

    Pages 205-223

17. The Effect of Physical Processes on the Distribution of Nutrients and Oxygen in the NW Levantine Sea

    • E. Souvermezoglou, E. Krasakopoulou

    Pages 225-240

18. Abundance and Elemental Composition of Particulate Matter in the Upper Layer of Northeastern Mediterranean

    • D. Edıger, S. Tuğrul, Ç. S. Polat, A. Yilmaz, İ. Salıhoğlu

    Pages 241-266

19. Comparative analysis of sedimentation processes within the Black Sea and Eastern Mediterranean

    • A. Y. Mitropolsky, S. P. Olshtynsky

    Pages 267-280

20. Sensitivity to Global Change in Temperate Euro-Asian Seas (The Mediterranean, Black Sea and Caspian Sea): A Review

    • Emin Özsoy

    Pages 281-300

This book is the outcome of a NATO Advanced Research Workshop on "The Eastern Mediterranean as a laboratory basin for the assessment of contrasting ecosystems" that was held in Kiev, Ukraine, March 23-27, 1998. The scientific rationale of the workshop can be summarized as follows. The Eastern Mediterranean is the most nutrient impoverished and oligotrophic large water body known. There is a well-defined eastward trend in nutrient ratios over the entire Mediterranean that starts at the Gibraltar Straits and, through the western basin, proceeds to the Ionian and Levantine Seas. Supply of nutrients to the entire Mediterranean is limited by inputs from the North Atlantic and various river systems along the sea. The unique feature of the Mediterranean is the presence of an eastward longitudinal trend in available nitrate/phosphate ratios. This apparently induces a west-to-east variation in the structure of the pelagic food web and trophic interactions. In this context the Mediterranean, and in particular its Eastern basin, provides probably a unique platform to explore the hypotheses related to the suggested phosphate-limitation on production and to the shift between "microbial" and "classical" modes of operation of the photic food web. The major exception of the overall oligotrophic nature of the Eastern Mediterranean is the highly eutrophic system of the Northern Adriatic Sea. Here, during the last two decades the discharges of the northern rivers (especially of the Po), together with municipal sewage, have led to a very marked increase of nutrients and subsequent imponent eutrophication events.

• Biodiversity
• Coast
• Eutrophication
• Flora
• Ocean
• Oceanography
• Plankton
• Sediment
• Sedimentation
• ecosystem
• ecosystems
• environment
• marine
• phytoplankton

• Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, USA

  Paola Malanotte-Rizzoli

• Marine Hydrophysical Institute, Sevastopol, Ukraine

  Valery N. Eremeev

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