Mediterranean Marine Ecosystems

Ecological Factors and their Biogeographic Consequences in the Mediterranean Ecosystems.- The Mediterranean Benthos: Reflections and Problems Raised by a Classification of the Benthic Assemblages.- On the Biogeography of the Benthic Algae of the Mediterranean.- Distribution and Ecology of Endemic Elements in the Mediterranean Fauna (Fishes and Echinoderms).- Mediterranean Sea Meiobenthos.- The Deep Mediterranean Benthos.- The Eastern Mediterranean Shelf Ecosystem in Global Connexion Including some Biological and Geological Implications.- Effects of Pollution and Man-Made Modifications on Marine Benthic Communities in the Mediterranean: A Review.- The Effects of the Geological and Physico-chemical Factors on the Distribution of Marine Plants and Animals in the Mediterranean.- Environmental Control of the Mesoscale Distribution of Primary Producers and its Bearing to Primary Production in the Western Mediterranean.- Phytoplankton Production in Oligotrophic Marine Ecosystems: the Mediterranean Sea.- Deep Phytoplankton and Chlorophyll Maxima in the Western Mediterranean.- Features and Peculiarities of Zooplankton Communities from the Western Mediterranean.- The Zooplankton Communities of the Eastern Mediterranean (Levantine Basin, Aegean Sea): Influence of Man-Made Factors.- Processes of Differentiation Between Mediterranean Populations of the Super-Species Tisbe clodiensis Battaglia and Fava (1968) (Copepoda).- Evolutionary and Zoogeographical Remarks on the Mediterranean Fauna of Brachyuran Crabs.- The Impact of the Lessepsian (Suez Canal) Fish Migration on the Eastern Mediterranean Ecosystem.- Mediterranean Marine Ecosystems: Establishment of Zooplanktonic Communities in Transitional and Partly Isolated Areas.- Contributors.- Species Index.