The present study was conducted in southern part of Caspian Sea, Iran. All samples were taken during 1995-1996 and 2006-2007 in 6 transects such as Lisar, Anzali, Sefidroud, Noushahr, Babolsar and Amirabad. The phytoplankton compositions were significantly changed with seasons (P<0.05). In compare to after Mnemiopsis leidyi arrival, the population of phytoplankton species were increased. Totall...

This paper is focused on the discussion of the exact age, and environmental setting of the ‘Khvalynian’ Transgression of the Caspian Sea with the use of novel radiometric, isotopic evidence and GIS-linked modelling. Based on this evidence the Khvalynian transgression is viewed as coeval with the warm Late Glacial episodes in the higher latitudes, reaching its peak at 13.6 11.8 ka. During that p...

Current taxonomy of western Eurasian trout leaves a number of questions open; it is not clear to what extent some species are distinct genetically and morphologically. The purpose of this paper was to explore phylogeography and species boundaries in freshwater and anadromous trout from the drainages of the Black and the Caspian Seas (Ponto-Caspian). We studied morphology and mitochondrial phylo...

Seasonal variations of the seawater properties (e.g. temperature, salinity, density and chlorophyll-a) in western part of the southern coastal waters of the Caspian Sea near the Iranian coast were studied. A portable CTD probe was applied for profiling from sea surface to bottom at 23 stations. Maximum depth of the profiling stations was more than 470 m in the study area. Vertical structure of ...

remotely sensed imagery is proving to be a useful tool to estimate water depths in coastalzones. bathymetric algorithms attempt to isolate water attenuation and hence depth from other factors byusing different combinations of spectral bands. in this research, images of absolute bathymetry using twodifferent but related methods in a region in the southern caspian sea coasts has been produced. th...

&nbsp; The stocks of Caspian roach ( Rutilus rutilus ), an economically important species in the Caspian Sea, is depleting. Annually, millions of fingerlings of these species are produced artificially and restock in the mouth of Qare Soo River in the Southern Caspian Sea, where they exposed to the pesticides coming from rice and orchard farms in the region. The fate of this exposure in hypo-osm...

the gobies are non-commercial fishes in the iranian waters of the caspian sea for which population dynamics and stock status are poorly known. in this survey, we tried to define species diversity and catch per unit effort (cpue) of gobiidae by using beach seine nets in salmanshahr, the southern caspian sea. from march 2011 to april 2012, 224 specimens representing 4 gobiid species, belonging to...

heavy metal accumulation in the aquatic ecosystems is a main concern which threats human health. in this study two commercial fish species, rutilus kutum and chelon aurata were selected for assessing heavy metal (cd, pb, zn) concentrations in gill and liver tissues at babolsar’s coast, the southern caspian sea, iran. babolsar is one of the important fishery stations in the southern caspian sea....