Aquatic invasions in the Black Caspian and Mediterranean seas the ctenophores Mnemiopsis leidyi and Beroe in the Ponto Caspian and other aquatic invasions 1st Edition by Henri J Dumont, Tamara A Shiganova, Ulrich Niermann ISBN 1402021526 9781402021527

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ISBN 10: 1402021526

ISBN 13: 9781402021527 

Author: Henri 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.

Table of contents:

1. Front Matter

2. Mnemiopsis leidyi, Beroe ovata, and their interaction

3. Mnemiopsis leidyi: Distribution and Effect on the Black Sea Ecosystem During the First Years of Invasion in Comparison with Other Gelatinous Blooms

4. Interactions between the invading ctenophores Mnemiopsis leidyi (A. Agassiz) and Beroe ovata Mayer 1912, and their influence on the Pelagic ecosystem of the Northeastern Black Sea

5. Population dynamics of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Caspian Sea, and effects on the Caspian ecosystem

6. Distribution and biology of Mnemiopsis leidyi in the Northern Aegean Sea, and comparison with the indigenous Bolinopsis vitrea

7. Effects of Beroe cf ovata on gelatinous and other zooplankton along the Bulgarian Black Sea Coast

8. Decreased levels of the invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis in the Marmara Sea in 2001

9. Preliminary investigation on the molecular systematics of the invasive ctenophore Beroe ovata

10. Introduction of Beroe cf ovata to the Caspian Sea needed to control Mnemiopsis leidyi

11. Feeding, respiration and growth of ctenophore Beroe cf ovata in the low salinity conditions of the Caspian Sea

12. A brief résumé of the status of the Mnemiopsis population in the Turkmen sector of the Caspian Sea according to observations during the first half of 2002

13. Dynamics of Mnemiopsis distribution in the Azerbaijan sector of the Caspian Sea in 2001–2002

14. Investigation on the distribution and biomass of Mnemiopsis in the Kazakhstan sector of the Caspian Sea in May 2002

15. Ponto-Caspian species invading Europe; information network

16. Range extensions of Ponto-Caspian aquatic invertebrates in Continental Europe

17. Living in a sea of exotics — the Baltic case

18. Internet-based information resources on aquatic alien species relevant to the Ponto-Caspian Region

19. Other Mediterranean Invaders

20. Invasion of the Jellyfish Pelagia noctiluca in the Northern Adriatic: a non-success story

21. Caulerpa taxifolia: 18 years of infestation in the Mediterranean Sea

22. Conclusions from the meeting

23. Back Matter

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