Assessment of trophic status of the northeastern Mediterranean coastal waters: eutrophication classification tools revisited

S Tugrul, K Ozhan, I Akcay - Environmental Science and Pollution …, 2019 - Springer
Abstract The Eastern Mediterranean and its Cilician Basin offshore waters have oligotrophic
features with low nutrient concentrations, low primary production, and high water …

Distinct patterns of sedimentary phosphorus fractionation and mobilization in the seafloor of the Black Sea, Marmara Sea and Mediterranean Sea

İ Akçay, M Yücel - Science of the Total Environment, 2023 - Elsevier
Phosphorus (P) is a key element to all life that is used for structural and functional
component of all organisms. The cycling of sedimentary P may differ depending on the …

Effects of river inputs on particulate organic matter composition and distributions in surface waters and sediments of the Mersin Bay, Northeastern Mediterranean Sea

I Akcay, S Tugrul, K Ozhan - Regional Studies in Marine Science, 2022 - Elsevier
Terrestrial inputs-induced eutrophication in the P-depleted Northeastern (NE)
Mediterranean shelf waters has led to changes in particulate organic matter (POM) …

Response of the temperate scleractinian coral Cladocora caespitosa to high temperature and long-term nutrient enrichment

L Hadjioannou, C Jimenez, C Rottier… - Scientific Reports, 2019 - nature.com
Anthropogenic nutrient enrichment and increased seawater temperatures are responsible
for coral reef decline. In particular, they disrupt the relationship between corals and their …

Seafloor nutrient biogeochemistry and benthic fluxes in the Northeastern Mediterranean sea

İ Akçay, S Tuğrul, M Yücel - Continental Shelf Research, 2025 - Elsevier
The coastal ecosystem of the Northeastern (NE) Mediterranean Sea has been affected by
nutrient inputs originated from regional rivers and wastewater discharges. Sediment …

Comparison of diffusive and total nutrient fluxes from the sediment of Mersin Bay, northeastern Mediterranean Sea

İ Akçay - Journal of Water Chemistry and Technology, 2023 - Springer
In this study, sediment diffusive and total nutrient fluxes were calculated for the Mersin Bay,
Northeastern (NE) Mediterranean Sea. Positive fluxes of nutrients from the sediments …

[HTML][HTML] Spatio-temporal variability of the size-fractionated primary production and chlorophyll in the Levantine Basin (northeastern Mediterranean)

N Yucel - Oceanologia, 2018 - Elsevier
Spatial and temporal variations in size-fractionated primary production (PP) and chl a, in
relation to ambient physicochemical parameters, were studied in the three distinct …

Nutrient inputs from two major rivers into the cilician basin of the north-eastern Mediterranean Sea

M Türkeri, S Marankoz, Ö Özbay, I Akçay… - Oceanological and …, 2023 - sciendo.com
Materials and methods River water samples were collected monthly at the downstream
points of the two regional rivers (the Berdan and Göksu rivers) between September 2021 …

[HTML][HTML] Bio-optical trends of seas around Turkey: An assessment of the spatial and temporal variability

F Bengil, S Mavruk - Oceanologia, 2018 - Elsevier
Until present, bio-optical characteristics and their variations in the eastern Mediterranean
and Black Sea have rarely been studied. In order to characterize the basic features of bio …

Assessment of eutrophication in the Berdan River Basin (Türkiye) using various classification tools

Ö Özbay, İ Akçay, MT Alp, MZL Göksu - … and Hydrobiological Studies, 2024 - sciendo.com
The trophic status of the Berdan River Basin was determined using univariate and
multivariate classification tools. The results indicated that the water quality/trophic status of a …