The annual cycle of plankton was studied over 14 years from 1984 to 2000 at a coastal
station in the Gulf of Naples, with the aim of assessing seasonal patterns and interannual …

Zooplanktonic variability at the maximum turbidity zone was investigated for the Gironde
estuary for 18 years. This ecosystem is characterized by a high concentration of suspended …

Climate variability across three distinct spatial scales and the interannual changes of
planktonic copepods and jellyfish were studied from November 1966 to December 1993 …

Gelatinous zooplankton species composition, distribution and abundance were investigated
in the bay and the lagoon of Bizerte (North Tunisian coast) from January 2004 to December …

As a consequence of the Sahelian drought, the Sine Saloum, a large estuarine system
located in Senegal (West Africa), has become an “inverse estuary” since the late sixties, ie …

In marine ecosystems, pelagic copepods, chaetognaths and jellyfish play a key role in
matter and energy flow. While copepods support most food webs and the biological pump of …

The combustion of fossil fuels and the resultant impacts on climate may now represent one
of the largest environmental threats. In the Mediterranean Sea, changes in bio-chemical and …

Studies of plankton time-series from the Balearic islands waters are presented for the past
decade, with main emphasis on the variability of zooplankton and how it relates to the …

A first synoptic and trans-domain overview of plankton dynamics was conducted across the
aquatic sites belonging to the Italian Long-Term Ecological Research Network (LTER-Italy) …

The Ligurian Sea is a deep basin in the northernmost sector of the western Mediterranean
which shows peculiar hydrodynamic and meteo-oceanographic features. The coasts of the …