Climate is one of the many factors such as socio-cultural structure, economy, materials, and technology that influence architectural forms. The resolutions that exist as a result of the effect of climate on architecture differ according to regions, cultures, time and technology. The climate in the Eastern Black Sea region, which lies in the north of Turkey, plays an active role in the formation...

The status of the Mediterranean and Black Sea fisheries was evaluated for the period 1970-2010 on a subarea basis, using various indicators including the temporal variability of total landings, the number of recorded stocks, the mean trophic level of the catch, the fishing-in-balance index and the catch-based method of stock classification. All indicators confirmed that the fisheries resources ...

As it is already known, in the last 10–15 years the Black Sea has attracted special attention from the international community represented by members of governments, parliaments, academic institutions and non-governmental organizations in numerous countries and first of all in the riparian ones, all of them animated by the wish to save this sea from the ecological collapse revealed both by the ...

Long term trends in the sea surface temperature of the Black Sea G. I. Shapiro, D. L. Aleynik, and L. D. Mee School of Marine Science and Engineering, University of Plymouth, Plymouth, PL4 8AA, UK P. P. Shirshov Institute of Oceanology, Moscow, Russia Scottish Association for Marine Science, Oban, UK Received: 12 December 2009 – Accepted: 4 January 2010 – Published: 18 January 2010 Corresponden...

The characteristic dark color of Diadema antillarum is chiefly attributable to a black pigment, most of which is contained in large epidermal chromatophores (see Fig. 1). A red pigment is also present, but is easily separable from the black, being readily soluble in ethanol and acetone, whereas the black is not. The nature of the red pigment is unknown and we have not studied its properties. Co...

To understand environmental systems like the Black Sea catchment, it is required to gather and integrate different datasets. However, data discoverability, accessibility and integration are among the most frequent difficulties that scientists are regularly facing. To tackle these issues, capacity building (at human, institutional, and technical levels) is recognized as a key enabler to raise aw...