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Chapter
6 Did Quaternary Climate Fluctuations Affect Mediterranean Deep-Sea Coral Communities?
Despite our limited current knowledge on fossil Mediterranean deep-sea corals, data collected so far hint at a strong influence of climate modifications on the distribution and diversity of these organisms thr...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
Exploratory Study on SDI-ICMM Implementation: Case Study Tunisia
Management and planning of coastal and marine areas are complex processes that are more and more required to effectively support a coordinated development of socio-economic activities. In managing coastal and ...
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Chapter
9 Spatio-Temporal Distribution of Mediterranean Cold-Water Corals
Cold-water corals have inhabited the Mediterranean basin since at least the Miocene, undergoing important modifications through time. Most information regarding pre-Pleistocene occurrences of extant cold-water...
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Article
Synchronous basin-wide formation and redox-controlled preservation of a Mediterranean sapropel
Organic-rich sedimentary units called sapropels have formed repeatedly in the eastern Mediterranean Sea, but the mechanisms leading to the formation of these shale beds are still under debate. The analysis of ...
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Article
Open AccessDNA is preserved and maintains transforming potential after contact with brines of the deep anoxic hypersaline lakes of the Eastern Mediterranean Sea
Extracellular dissolved DNA has been demonstrated to be present in many terrestrial and aquatic environments, actively secreted, or released by decaying cells. Free DNA has the genetic potential to be acquired...
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Chapter
Molluscan paleoecology in the reconstruction of coastal changes
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Article
Stratified prokaryote network in the oxic–anoxic transition of a deep-sea halocline
Beneath the eastern Mediterranean Sea lies one of the most extreme environments on Earth capable of sustaining life. Here the seawater floats on a lake of anoxic hypersaline brine known as the Bannock basin, a...
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Article
First geo-marine survey of living cold-water Lophelia reefs in the Ionian Sea (Mediterranean basin)
Prosperous deep coral mounds including living colonies of Lophelia pertusa together with Madrepora oculata and Desmophyllum dianthus (= D. cristagalli) have been discovered in 2000, by fishery operations on the e...