We present an overview of the plankton studies conducted during the last 25 years in the
epipelagic offshore waters of the Mediterranean Sea. This quasi-enclosed sea is …

Deep-sea ecosystems represent the largest biome of the global biosphere, but knowledge of
their biodiversity is still scant. The Mediterranean basin has been proposed as a hot spot of …

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 …

The semi-enclosed nature of the Mediterranean Sea, together with its smaller inertia due to
the relative short residence time of its water masses, make it highly reactive to external …

The smallest marine phytoplankton, collectively termed picophytoplankton, have been
routinely enumerated by flow cytometry since the late 1980s during cruises throughout most …

Exotic macrophytes, invertebrates and fish are found in most coastal habitats in the
Mediterranean Sea. The Mediterranean Sea has been subjected to introductions of non …

The Eastern Mediterranean Sea (EMS) is a relatively small ocean basin with an unusually
high nitrate to phosphate ratio in the deep waters (∼ 28: 1). As a consequence, the typical …

The eastern Mediterranean is susceptible to biological invasions because of its placement
between the Atlantic, Pontic and Erythrean regions, busy maritime traffic, and lagoons and …

Primary productivity and the associated phytoplanktonic parameters were studied from July
1994 to October 1995 at two stations, over the continental shelf and slope of the Cretan Sea …

The Mediterranean Sea is in many ways a unique body of water. It is small, but deep
compared to other bodies of water of its size, and for its size (0.82% in surface area of the …