Aquatic Invasions in the Black, Caspian, and Mediterranean SeasHenri J. Dumont, Tamara A. Shiganova, Ulrich Niermann The present volume contains the presentations of a NATO advanced Research Workshop (ARW) entitled “The invasion of the Black, Mediterranean and Caspian Seas by the American Ctenophore, Mnemiopsis leidyi Agassiz: a multidisciplinary perspective and a comparison with other aquatic invasions”, held on 24 - 26 June 2002 in Baku (Azerbaijan). The meeting was ?nanced by the NATO Division for Scienti?c and Environmental Affairs (Brussels); substantial logistic support was provided by the CEP (Caspian Environmental Program) of the GEF in Baku. The Mediterranean, Black, and Caspian Seas represent three fragments of the former Tethys Sea, and are thus of great interest to understanding the evolution of the entire region where Eurasia, Africa and the Arabian Peninsula meet. While the Mediterranean is a typical marine environment, with salinity even a little above the world ocean’s, the Black Sea is a brackish meromictic lake, and the Caspian is a lake with a saline gradient extending from a freshwater basin in the North to a brackish water basin in the South. Intense ?shing activity takes place in all three seas, while maritime traf?c through the Dardanelles and Bosporus, and via the Lenin Canal (between the Don and Volga rivers) to the Caspian Sea has become greatly intensi?ed in the course of the last few decades. |
Contents
Interactions between the invading Ctenophores Mnemiopsis leidyi | 33 |
Population dynamics of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Caspian Sea | 71 |
Distribution and biology of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Northern Aegean | 112 |
Effects of Beroe cf ovata on gelatinous and other zooplankton along | 137 |
Decreased levels of the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis in the Marmara | 155 |
ctenophore Beroe ovata | 166 |
Introduction of Beroe cf ovata to the Caspian | 177 |
Feeding respiration and growth of Ctenophore Beroe cf ovata | 193 |
A brief résumé of the status of the Mnemiopsis population | 200 |
Range extensions of PontoCaspian aquatic invertebrates in Continental | 207 |
Living in a sea of exotics the Baltic Case | 237 |
Internetbased information resources of aquatic alien species relevant | 257 |
PART3 Other Mediterranean invaders | 270 |
18 years of infestation in the Mediterranean | 286 |
Conclusions from the meeting | 301 |
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abundance and biomass Aegean Sea Amphipoda anchovy anchovy stock anomala Aquatic Invasions Atlantic August Aurelia aurita Azov Sea ballast water Baltic Sea Beroe cf ovata Beroe ovata Beroe ovata sensu biomass Black Sea Black Sea ecosystem blooms Bolinopsis vitrea Bulgakova Canal Caspian Sea Cercopagis pengoi Cladocera coastal copepods ctenophore ctenophore Mnemiopsis leidyi cucumis sensu Mayer Danube decrease distribution dolphins Dumont Ecology eggs and larvae Environmental Finenko fish Fisheries gelatinous ichthyoplankton impact increase introductions invader invasive species jellyfish Kamburska Kideys kilka Kluwer Academic Publishers Lauterbornia Leppäkoski Marmara Sea Mediterranean Sea mesozooplankton microplankton Middle Caspian Mnemiopsis leidyi Niermann North northern Adriatic Northern Caspian Oceanology offshore Olenin ovata sensu Chun ovata sensu Mayer Pelagia noctiluca phytoplankton plankton Ponto-Caspian Region population predation Purcell reproduction Rhine basin River S. P. Volovik salinity Shiganova Southern Species Database specimens sprat stations summer temperature Vinogradov zooplankton