The genus Asterodinium (Dinophyceae) as a possible biological indicator of warming in the western Mediterranean Sea

Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom

Volumn 83, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 173-174

  Gómez, Fernando ^a   Claustre, Hervé ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOINDICATOR; DINOFLAGELLATE; WARM WATER; WARMING;

(WEST); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ASTERODINIUM; ASTERODINIUM GRACILE; ASTERODINIUM LIBANUM; DINOPHYCEAE;

EID: 0037327220     PISSN: 00253154     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1017/s0025315403006945h     Document Type: Article

References (13)

1. Abboud-Abi Saab, M., 1989. Les dinoflagellés des eaux côtières libanaises - Espèes rares ou nouvelles du phytoplancton marin. Lebanese Science Bulletin, 5, 5-16.
2. Astraldi, M., Bianchi, C.N., Gasparini, G.P. & Morri, C., 1995. Climatic fluctuations, current variability and marine species distribution: a case study in the Ligurian Sea (north-west Mediterranean). Oceanologica Acta, 18, 139-149.
3. Béthoux, J.P., Gentili, B., Raunet, J. & Tailliez, D., 1990. Warming trend in the western Mediterranean deep water. Nature, London, 347, 660-662.
4. Bianchi, C.N. & Morri, C., 2000. Marine biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea: situation, problems and prospects for future research. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 40, 367-376.
5. Cerrano, C. et al., 2000. A catastrophic mass-mortality episode of gorgonians and other organisms m the Ligurian Sea (NW Mediterranean), summer 1999. Ecology Letters, 3, 284-293.
6. Elbrächter, M., 1999. Exotic flagellates of coastal North Sea waters. Helgoländer Meeresuntersuchungen, 5, 235-242.
7. Francour, P., Boudouresque, C.F., Hamelin, J.G., Hamelin-Vivien, M.L. & Quignard, J.P., 1994. Are the Mediterranean waters becoming warmer? Information from biological indicators. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 28, 523-526.
8. Halim, Y., 1960. Étude quantitative et qualitative du cycle écologique des dinoflagellés dans les eaux de Villefranche-sur-Mer. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique, Paris, 38, 123-232.
9. Halim, Y., 1990. On the potential migration of the Indo-Pacific plankton through the Suez Canal. Annales de l'Institut Océanographique, Monaco, 7 (n. sp), 11-27.
10. Nehring, S., 1998. Establishment of thermophilic phytoplankton species in the North Sea: biological indicators of climatic changes? ICES Journal of Marine Science, 55, 818-823.
11. Romano, J.C., Bensoussan, N., Walid, A.N.Y. & Arlhac, D., 2000. Anomalie thermique dans les eaux du Golfe de Marseille durant l'été 1999. Une explication partielle de la mortalité d'invertébrés fixés? Comptes-Rendues de l'Académie des Science de Paris, Sciences de la Vie, 323, 415-427.
12. Sournia, A., 1986. Atlas du phytoplancton marin. Introduction, cyanophycées, dictyochophycées, dinophycées et raphidophycées. Vol. I. Paris: Editions CNRS.
13. Turley, C.M., 1999. The changing Mediterranean Sea - a sensitive ecosystem? Progress in Oceanography, 44, 387-400.