The Northern Hemisphere has been warmer since 1980 than at any other time during the
last 2000years. The observed increase in temperature has been generally higher in …

Abrupt and rapid shifts in food web and community structure, commonly termed regime
shifts, have been increasingly reported for exploited marine ecosystems around the world …

Large-scale transitions between alternative states in ecosystems are known as regime shifts.
Once described as healthy and dominated by various marine predators, the Black Sea …

In this paper we provide an overview of new knowledge on oxygen depletion (hypoxia) and
related phenomena in aquatic systems resulting from the EU-FP7 project HYPOX (" In situ …

Over the past 60 years, both average daily precipitation intensity and extreme precipitation
have increased in many regions,,. Part of these changes, or even individual events,, have …

Data from profiling floats reveal that climate change in the Black Sea leads to the
disappearance of specific water masses. The observed thermohaline change is possibly an …

Functioning of the Black Sea ecosystem has profoundly changed since the early 1970s
under cumulative effects of excessive nutrient enrichment, strong cooling/warming, over …

Background Regime shifts are abrupt changes encompassing a multitude of physical
properties and ecosystem variables, which lead to new regime conditions. Recent …

Satellite altimetry data are used to study the long-term dynamics variability of the Black Sea
from 1993 to 2013, its dependence on wind forcing and its impact on the marine ecosystem …

Central Asia has been rapidly changing in multiple ways over the past few decades.
Increases in temperature and likely decreases in precipitation in Central Asia as the result of …