The biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: estimates, patterns, and threats

M Coll, C Piroddi, J Steenbeek, K Kaschner… - PloS one, 2010 - journals.plos.org
The Mediterranean Sea is a marine biodiversity hot spot. Here we combined an extensive
literature analysis with expert opinions to update publicly available estimates of major taxa …

Oceanography of the Black Sea: a review of some recent results

E Özsoy, Ü Ünlüata - Earth-Science Reviews, 1997 - Elsevier
A new synthesis of the Black Sea oceanography is presented, primarily based on studies
carried out in the southern Black Sea, as well as on some recent work covering the entire …

Seasonal and interannual variability in algal biomass and primary production in the Mediterranean Sea, as derived from 4 years of SeaWiFS observations

E Bosc, A Bricaud, D Antoine - Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 2004 - Wiley Online Library
Because the Mediterranean has been subject for several decades to increasing
anthropogenic influences, monitoring algal biomass and primary production on a long‐term …

Phytoplankton pigment distribution in relation to upper thermocline circulation in the eastern Mediterranean Sea during winter

F Vidussi, H Claustre, BB Manca… - Journal of …, 2001 - Wiley Online Library
Using a sampling grid of 67 stations, the influence of basin‐wide and subbasin‐scale
circulation features on phytoplankton community composition and primary and new …

Mediterranean Sea large-scale low-frequency ocean variability and water mass formation rates from 1987 to 2007: A retrospective analysis

N Pinardi, M Zavatarelli, M Adani, G Coppini… - Progress in …, 2015 - Elsevier
We describe a synthesis of the Mediterranean Sea circulation structure and dynamics from a
23-year-long reanalysis of the ocean circulation carried out by Adani et al.(2011). This …

The large deep water transient in the Eastern Mediterranean

B Klein, W Roether, BB Manca, D Bregant… - Deep Sea Research …, 1999 - Elsevier
The recent changes in the thermohaline circulation of the Eastern Mediteranean caused by
a transition from a system with a single source of deep water in the Adriatic to one with an …

Transient climate change scenario simulation of the Mediterranean Sea for the twenty-first century using a high-resolution ocean circulation model

S Somot, F Sevault, M Déqué - Climate Dynamics, 2006 - Springer
A scenario of the Mediterranean Sea is performed for the twenty-first century based on an
ocean modelling approach. A climate change IPCC-A2 scenario run with an atmosphere …

A synthesis of the Ionian Sea hydrography, circulation and water mass pathways during POEM-Phase I

P Malanotte-Rizzoli, BB Manca, MR d'Alcalà… - Progress in …, 1997 - Elsevier
In this paper we revisit, with a thorough in-depth analysis, the dataset collected in the
hydrographic surveys of the international collaborative programme POEM (Physical …

The Eastern Mediterranean in the 80s and in the 90s: the big transition in the intermediate and deep circulations

P Malanotte-Rizzoli, BB Manca, MR d'Alcala… - … of Atmospheres and …, 1999 - Elsevier
We present definitive observational evidence that the startling change of the Eastern
Mediterranean deep circulation observed in winter 1995 and documented by [Roether, W …

Algal pigment distribution and primary production in the eastern Mediterranean as derived from coastal zone color scanner observations

D Antoine, A Morel, JM André - Journal of Geophysical …, 1995 - Wiley Online Library
About 300 coastal zone color scanner (CZCS) scenes, gathered over the eastern
Mediterranean basin mostly during the years 1979–1981, have been processed from level 1 …