The Eastern Mediterranean as a Laboratory Basin for the Assessment of Contrasting Ecosystems pp 141-158 | Cite as
Plankton Communities in the Eastern Mediterranean Coastal Waters
Abstract
Plankton in the Eastern Mediterranean Sea has got a relatively poor study compared to that in the other regions of the basin. The available data mostly cover the central and the northern parts of the Levantine basin [5, 10, 13]. The data on the plankton in the Eastern Mediterranean coastal waters and closely adjacent areas are very few. Most of them were presented by Abi-Saab and Lakkis [1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9]. The studies by Abi-Saab and Lakkis ere done in the Lebanese coastal waters and focused on taxonomic composition and temporal/spatial variability of the plankton community in the surface layer only.
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Vertical Distribution Late Summer Zooplankton Biomass Deep Water Area Total Zooplankton BiomassPreview
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