We present the first insight to the oceanography of the southeastern Adriatic Sea, where coastal water influenced by Albanian rivers comes into contact with the inflowing oligotrophic Eastern Adriatic Current (Ionian Surface Water and Levantine Intermediate Water). A distinct plankton distribution was observed on each side of the shelf break hydrographic boundary in May 2009, during gradual war...

Brachidiniacean dinoflagellates have been investigated in the open waters of the Mediterranean Sea, along a transect from the south of France to the south of Cyprus (20 June–18 July 2008). Brachidinium and Karenia papilionacea often co-occurred, B. capitatum predominating in the surface waters. The highest abundance of Brachidinium were found in the upper 25m in the westernMediterranean with a ...

Abstract. Dense water formation in the eastern Mediterranean (EMed) is essential sustaining overturning circulation. Changes sources of dense EMed point to changes circulation and properties Sea. Here we examine with a regional climate system model through 21st century under RCP8.5 emission scenario. Our results show shift dominant source Eastern Deep Water (EMDW) from Adriatic Sea Aegean first...

Significant changes in the overturning circulation of the Mediterranean Sea has been observed during the last few decades, the most prominent phenomena being the Eastern Mediterranean Transient (EMT) in the early 1990s and the Western Mediterranean Transition (WMT) during the mid-2000s. During both of these events unusually large amounts of deep water were formed, and in the case of the EMT, th...

Climatic changes and interannual variability in the Mediterranean overturning circulation are crucially linked to dense water formation Levantine Sea, namely Intermediate Water whose zone, comprising multiple intermittent sources, extends over fluctuating pathways. To probe into of this spreading, a unique dataset was collected during winter 2019 western via oceanographic cruises, profiling flo...

During the last two decades, several satellite algorithms have been proposed to retrieve information about phytoplankton groups using ocean color data. One of these algorithms, the so-called PHYSAT-Med, was developed specifically for the Mediterranean Sea due to the optical peculiarities of this basin. The method allows the detection from ocean color images of the dominant Mediterranean phytopl...

The status of the Mediterranean Sea fisheries was evaluated across seven subdivisions General Fisheries Commission for (GFCM), using ecotrophic and catch-based indicators period 1970–2017. All confirmed that fishery resources are no longer sustainably exploited structure function marine ecosystems has been altered as a result overexploitation. Although declining catches were common feature Sea,...

The 13(th) century BC witnessed the zenith of the Aegean and Eastern Mediterranean civilizations which declined at the end of the Bronze Age, ∼3200 years ago. Weakening of this ancient flourishing Mediterranean world shifted the political and economic centres of gravity away from the Levant towards Classical Greece and Rome, and led, in the long term, to the emergence of the modern western civi...