Citation: Guo C, Xia X, Pitta P, Herut B, Rahav E, Berman-Frank I, Giannakourou A, Tsiola A, Tsagaraki TM and Liu H (2016) Shifts in Microbial Community Structure and Activity in the Ultra-Oligotrophic Eastern Mediterranean Sea Driven by the Deposition of Saharan Dust and European Aerosols. Front. Mar. Sci. 3:170. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00170 Shifts in Microbial Community Structure and Activit...

Citation: Rahav E, Shun-Yan C, Cui G, Liu H, Tsagaraki TM, Giannakourou A, Tsiola A, Psarra S, Lagaria A, Mulholland MR, Stathopoulou E, Paraskevi P, Herut B and Berman-Frank I (2016) Evaluating the Impact of Atmospheric Depositions on Springtime Dinitrogen Fixation in the Cretan Sea (Eastern Mediterranean)—A Mesocosm Approach. Front. Mar. Sci. 3:180. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2016.00180 Evaluating th...

Citation: Bargain A, Marchese F, Savini A, Taviani M and Fabri M-C (2017) Santa Maria di Leuca Province (Mediterranean Sea): Identification of Suitable Mounds for Cold-Water Coral Settlement Using Geomorphometric Proxies and Maxent Methods. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:338. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00338 Santa Maria di Leuca Province (Mediterranean Sea): Identification of Suitable Mounds for Cold-Water Co...

Citation: Russo T, Bitetto I, Carbonara P, Carlucci R, D’Andrea L, Facchini MT, Lembo G, Maiorano P, Sion L, Spedicato MT, Tursi A and Cataudella S (2017) A Holistic Approach to Fishery Management: Evidence and Insights from a Central Mediterranean Case Study (Western Ionian Sea). Front. Mar. Sci. 4:193. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00193 A Holistic Approach to Fishery Management: Evidence and Insig...

The overarching goal is to elucidate the complex dynamics of outflows connecting basins through straits. The long term scientific goals are to (a) understand the physical mechanisms that control the exchange between two marginal seas with substantially different water mass characteristics (Aegean Sea and Black Sea) through a complex system of straits (Turkish Straits System); (b) quantify the p...

The distribution of sea level in the Mediterranean Sea is recovered for the period 1945-2000 by using a reduced space optimal interpolation analysis. The method involves estimating empirical orthogonal functions from satellite altimeter data spanning the period 1993-2005 that are then combined with tide gauge data to recover sea level fields over the period 1945-2000. The reconstruction techniq...

Citation: Carpi P, Scarcella G and Cardinale M (2017) The Saga of the Management of Fisheries in the Adriatic Sea: History, Flaws, Difficulties, and Successes toward the Application of the Common Fisheries Policy in the Mediterranean. Front. Mar. Sci. 4:423. doi: 10.3389/fmars.2017.00423 The Saga of the Management of Fisheries in the Adriatic Sea: History, Flaws, Difficulties, and Successes tow...

We evaluate the changes on the hydrological (temperature and salinity) and biogeochemical (phytoplankton biomass) characteristics of the Mediterranean Sea induced by freshwater flow modifications under two different scenarios for the end of the 21st century. An ensemble of four regional climate model realizations using different global circulation models at the boundary and different emission s...

The Red Sea species, the Orangeface Butterflyfish, Chaetodon larvatus, is recorded for the first time from the Mediterranean. Its occurrence there is evidentially the result of entering the Mediterranean via the Suez Canal.

Introduction Hydrothermal systems and their associated metal deposits have been studied at oceanic spreading centers since the late 1970s when they were first discovered. More recently, those studies have been extended to subduction zone hydrothermal systems including active volcanic arcs and back-arc environments. Oceanic spreading centers compose a global ridge system where new ocean crust is...