Marine caves are protected habitats with high biodiversity and low ecological resilience, vulnerable to multiple pressures including biological invasions. Therefore, comprehensive lists of alien species in sea assessments their impacts urgently needed. This study aimed provide an updated validated list introduced marine the Mediterranean Sea based on latest available checklist (2014). The numbe...

As part of the Mediterranean Forecasting System Pilot Project (MFSPP) we have implemented a highresolution (2 km horizontal grid, 30 sigma levels) version of the Princeton Ocean Model for the southeastern corner of the Mediterranean Sea. The domain extends 200 km offshore and includes the continental shelf and slope, and part of the open sea. The model is nested in an intermediate resolution (5...

The spatiotemporal distribution and ecology of the suprabenthic benthic mega-crustaceans were studied in shelf-shelf break Turkish waters eastern Mediterranean Sea (Antalya Gulf). Sampling was conducted seasonally May 2014, August, October, February 2015 using an otter trawl at depths 10, 25, 75, 125 200 m along three transects. A total 59 species identified comprising 53 decapods (Eumalacostra...

Extreme variations of Earth's magnetic field occurred in the Levant region around 1000 BC, when the field intensity rapidly rose and fell by a factor of 2. No coherent link currently exists between this intensity spike and the global field produced by the core geodynamo. Here we show that the Levantine spike must span >60° longitude at Earth's surface if it originates from the core-mantle bound...

Useful training data for automatic speech recognition systems of colloquial speech is usually limited to expensive in-domain transcription. Broadcast news is an appealing source of easily available data to bootstrap into a new dialect. However, some languages, like Arabic, have deep linguistic differences resulting in poor cross domain performance. If no in-domain transcripts are available, but...