The Caspian Sea is of particular interest. Against the background long-term sea level changes, low-lying coastal areas in northern part are subject to constant flooding as a result storm surges. elongation meridional direction allows development strong waves middle and southern parts. A comprehensive understanding characteristics surges especially important context ongoing climate change. This ...

The predatory cladoceran Cercopagis pengoi has extended its range over the past decade from the Ponto-Caspian basin into the Baltic Sea and the Laurentian Great Lakes. This study employs mitochondrial DNA (mtDNA) sequence analysis to elucidate the invasion corridors exploited during this range expansion. The Caspian and Black Sea populations of C. pengoi exhibit marked genetic divergence, enabl...

Aim Impacts of invasive species may vary across invasion gradients, owing to trait-based sorting of individuals through dispersal: those aggregating at invasion fronts may be more aggressive and voracious. We examine, in the field and laboratory, variation in the predatory impacts of an invasive Ponto-Caspian crustacean Hemimysis anomala G.O. Sars, 1907 at two sites along a spatiotemporal gradi...

Across the globe marine coasts are experiencing an outstripping growth of population and economic activity, a phenomenon known as coastalization. Most global cities industry clusters located in coastal regions acting nodes for their respective countries. This divergence is equally true national innovation systems, gravitating towards highly urbanized areas. The study designed to evaluate spatia...

The article considers the original results of observations and analysis catches atherina (Atherina boyeri caspia (Eichwald)) by months stationary nets in Terek-Caspian fishery subarea (Republic Dagestan). size-weight age indicators spawning stocks have been characterized. For first time recent years conditions for western part Middle Northern Caspian are described. All biostatistical obtained (...

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