Mediterranean Marine Ecosystems

✍ Scribed by Michele Sara (auth.), Prof. Maria Moraitou-Apostolopoulou, Prof. Vassili Kiortsis (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer US
• Year: 1985
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 407
• Series: NATO Conference Series 8 : I Ecology
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

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.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-viii
Ecological Factors and their Biogeographic Consequences in the Mediterranean Ecosystems....Pages 1-17
The Mediterranean Benthos: Reflections and Problems Raised by a Classification of the Benthic Assemblages....Pages 19-48
On the Biogeography of the Benthic Algae of the Mediterranean....Pages 49-56
Distribution and Ecology of Endemic Elements in the Mediterranean Fauna (Fishes and Echinoderms)....Pages 57-83
Mediterranean Sea Meiobenthos....Pages 85-108
The Deep Mediterranean Benthos....Pages 109-145
The Eastern Mediterranean Shelf Ecosystem in Global Connexion Including some Biological and Geological Implications....Pages 147-162
Effects of Pollution and Man-Made Modifications on Marine Benthic Communities in the Mediterranean: A Review....Pages 163-194
The Effects of the Geological and Physico-chemical Factors on the Distribution of Marine Plants and Animals in the Mediterranean....Pages 195-212
Environmental Control of the Mesoscale Distribution of Primary Producers and its Bearing to Primary Production in the Western Mediterranean....Pages 213-229
Phytoplankton Production in Oligotrophic Marine Ecosystems: The Mediterranean Sea....Pages 231-246
Deep Phytoplankton and Chlorophyll Maxima in the Western Mediterranean....Pages 247-277
Features and Peculiarities of Zooplankton Communities from the Western Mediterranean....Pages 279-301
The Zooplankton Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean (Levantine Basin, Aegean Sea); Influence of Man-Made Factors....Pages 303-331
Processes of Differentiation Between Mediterranean Populations of the Super-Species Tisbe clodiensis Battaglia and Fava (1968) (Copepoda)....Pages 333-346
Evolutionary and Zoogeographical Remarks on the Mediterranean Fauna of Brachyuran Crabs....Pages 347-366
The Impact of the Lessepsian (Suez Canal) Fish Migration on the Eastern Mediterranean Ecosystem....Pages 367-375
Mediterranean Marine Ecosystems: Establishment of Zooplanktonic Communities in Transitional and Partly Isolated Areas....Pages 377-385
Back Matter....Pages 387-407

✦ Subjects

Physics, general