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Warming and salting in the western Mediterranean during the second half of the 20th century: inconsistencies, unknowns and the effect of data processing

open access: yesScientia Marina, 2009
Many papers that have appeared since the late 1980s have reported trends for the salinity and temperature of the upper, intermediate and deep layers within the western Mediterranean. The review of these works shows that the figures reported depend on the
Manuel Vargas-Yáñez   +5 more
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Slavery in the Western Mediterranean

open access: yes, 2023
AbstractThis chapter discusses household slavery in relation to the urbanization process and Mediterranean colonialism taking place in late medieval Europe. It reassesses the Ehrenkreutz thesis that urban slavery in late medieval Europe was a secondary byproduct of power relations in Central Asia and the Black Sea region by evaluating information on ...
openaire   +2 more sources

Analysis of demersal fish assemblages of the Tuscany and Latium coasts (north-western Mediterranean)

open access: yesScientia Marina, 2002
A four-year time series (1994-1997) of groundfish trawl surveys performed within the European Union Project MEDITS (Mediterranean International Trawl Surveys), was analysed to identify and describe the fish assemblages along the continental shelf and ...
Franco Biagi   +5 more
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Density, size structure, shell orientation and epibiontic colonization of the fan mussel Pinna nobilis L. 1758 (Mollusca: Bivalvia) in three contrasting habitats in an estuarine area of Sardinia (W Mediterranean)

open access: yesScientia Marina, 2009
We investigated the spatial distribution, size structure, shell orientation and valve colonization by epibionts of the endangered Mediterranean bivalve Pinna nobilis in three continuous but different habitats in the Gulf of Oristano (Sardinia, western ...
Piero Addis   +5 more
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Mediterranean outflow and its link with upstream conditions in Alboran Sea [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
The Western Alboran Gyre (WAG) at the eastern entrance of the Strait of Gibraltar can influence the Mediterranean outflow (MOW) by favoring or hampering the flow of Levantine and Western Mediterranean (LIW and WMDW) waters, the main constituents of the
García-Lafuente, Jesús   +3 more
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Macroalgal- dominated coastal detritic communities from the Western Mediterranean and the Northeastern Atlantic [PDF]

open access: yes, 2016
20 páginas, 6 tablas, 5 figuras, 1 apéndice.This is a qualitative comparison of the distribution of macroalgal-dominated coastal detritic communities from the Western Mediterranean and the Northeastern Atlantic, based on our own data from the Balearic ...
Ballesteros, Enric   +2 more
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Spawning pattern and batch fecundity of the European hake (Merluccius merluccius (Linnaeus, 1758)) in the western Mediterranean

open access: yesScientia Marina, 2008
The spawning cycle of the European hake (Merluccius merluccius, (Linnaeus, 1758)) was studied in two western Mediterranean areas, the Catalan Sea and the northern Tyrrhenian Sea, including observation of the monthly seasonal variation of the gonad ...
Laura Recasens   +2 more
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North-easternmost record of Halosaurus ovenii Actinopterygii: Notacanthiformes: Halosauridae) in the Mediterranean Sea, with notes on its biology [PDF]

open access: yes, 2009
A single adult female specimen of Halosaurus ovenii Johnson, 1864 was captured by trammel nets at a depth of about 200 m off the coast of Arbatax (Sardinia, Italy) in early April 2007.
Follesa, Maria Cristina   +3 more
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Is the Western Mediterranean Transition showing up in the Strait of Gibraltar? [PDF]

open access: yes, 2017
Physical and chemical properties (temperature, salinity, pH) of the Mediterranean outflow near the seafloor at Espartel sill, at the westernmost section of the Strait of Gibraltar, have been measured by a monitoring station aimed at following the changes
García-Lafuente, Jesús
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Effect of refuge supplement on Audouin's gull chick survival

open access: yesScientia Marina, 2003
One of the main threats to Audouin´s gull (Larus audouinii) at Chafarinas Islands is predation on eggs and chicks by the yellow-legged gull (Larus cachinnans).
Jordi Prieto, Lluís Jover, Xavier Ruiz
doaj   +1 more source

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