The South Adriatic Sea is the deepest part of the Adriatic Sea and represents a key area for both the Adriatic Sea and the deep eastern Mediterranean. It has a role in dense water formation for the eastern Mediterranean deep circulation cell, and it represents an entry point for water masses originating from the Ionian Sea. The biodiversity and seasonality of bacterial picoplankton before, duri...

Cyprus is one of the few areas Mediterranean where lower and upper Miocene coral-reefs occur in close proximity thus well suited to investigate how environmental geological changes affected reefs their associated shallow-marine facies. The prevailing conditions Terra Member Koronia are reconstructed here, using detailed microfacies comparisons skeletal, foraminiferal calcareous algal assemblage...

Remotely estimating prey-capture rates in wild animals is key to assess foraging success. In diving animals, accelerometers have been particularly useful remotely detect prey captures and shown be more precise than traditional estimates relying on depth-derived measures (e.g., wiggles). However, validations of the accelerometry technique using a gold standard (i.e., with supervision) mostly res...

To understand the composition and photosynthetic carbon fixing activities of natural phytoplankton communities, we employed group-specific ribulose bisphosphate carboxylase (RubisCO) large subunit gene probes (rbcL) to examine RubisCO gene expression. The rbcL genes from Synechococcus PCC6301 (cyano) and from Cylindrotheca sp. [chromo) were used as probes at select stations to examine levels of...

Accurate simulation of surface productivity, dissolved nutrient and oxygen concentrations, and particulate carbon flux are critical components of any viable surface water quality model. A linear, three-component model consisting of a dissolved limiting nutrient, phytoplankton, and zooplankton coupled to a one-dimensional turbulence closure fluid flow model has been constructed and applied to a ...

Pigment-specific absorption bq total particulatea. detritus and phytoplankton was measured throughout the euphotic zone at > 275 stations on three cruises off California in late IYY 1 and early 1992. A new spectral Ruoresccncc method for assessing photosynthetically active absorption in natural samples was developed and applied. Spatial variability in specific absorption coefficients at the mes...