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Distribution and Fluctuation of Dominant Zooplankton Species in the Southern Black Sea in Comparison to the North Sea and Baltic Sea

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Sensitivity to Change: Black Sea, Baltic Sea and North Sea

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The fluctuation of dominant pelagic species >300μm (copepoda, chaetognatha, scyphozoa, ctenophora and ichtyoplankton) of the southern Black Sea were compared with that of dominant species of the North Sea and Baltic Sea. In all three seas similar changes in the Zooplankton compositon took place in end of the 1980’s, beginning of the 1990: — decreasing or increasing abundances of certain species, — occurrence of new species (North Sea: Muggiaea atlantica Lusitanean fish species; Black Sea: Mnemiopsis leidyi), — changes of the blooming period of certain species, which starts earlier and last longer, — high interannual fluctuations of some species, which were obvious since end of the 1980’s. The changes in the Zooplankton of all three seas could be related to a rise in temperature during 1988/89 (North Sea, German Bight: sudden rise in the annual average temperature and salinity during 1988/89; Baltic Sea, Kiel Bight: rise in the temperature of the subthermocline water during 1988/89; Black Sea: extraordinary cold winter 1987/88 followed by an extraordinary warm winter during 1988/89. It was concluded, that the changes in the Zooplankton community since end of 1980’s in the Black Sea, North Sea and Baltic were triggered in all probability by climatic variability.

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Niermann, U., Greve, W. (1997). Distribution and Fluctuation of Dominant Zooplankton Species in the Southern Black Sea in Comparison to the North Sea and Baltic Sea. In: Özsoy, E., Mikaelyan, A. (eds) Sensitivity to Change: Black Sea, Baltic Sea and North Sea. NATO ASI Series, vol 27. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-5758-2_6

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