Rivers are primary receiving environments for agricultural runoff and for domestic and industrial discharges. Rivers assimilate and treat incoming pollution load until self-purification capacity is reached. The remaining pollution load and natural nutrients are carried ...

Sulfur compounds in intermediate valence states, for example elemental sulfur, thiosulfate, and tetrathionate, are important players in the biogeochemical sulfur cycle. However, key understanding about the pathways of oxidation involving mixed-valance state sulfur speci...

En este trabajo se ha analizado la composición y abundancia de especies de octocorales de las comunidades bentónicas del mar de Mármara. Este mar conecta el Mediterráneo y el mar Negro, dos mares semicerrados con condiciones oceanográficas particulares. En la capa salin...

International audience; In 2002, the Bosphorus outlet was mapped using an EM 300 multibeam echo-sounder together with a Chirp sonar system. Th is survey, carried out on board the Ifremer RV 'Le Suroit' in the frame of the BlaSON project, completes the data previously ac...

Abstract. Two-sized aerosol and rain sampling were carried out at a rural site located on the coast of the Eastern Mediterranean, Erdemli, Turkey (36°33′54″ N and 34°15′18″ E). A total of 674 aerosol samples in two size fraction (coarse = 337; fine = 337) and 23 rain sa...

Natural or human-induced water-level fluctuations influence the structure and function of shallow lakes, especially in semi-arid to arid climate regions. In order to reliably interpret the effect of water-level changes from sedimentary remains in the absence of historic...

The body size of zooplankton has many substantive effects on the function of aquatic food webs. A variety of factors may affect size, and earlier studies indicate that water temperature may be a particularly important variable. Here we tested the hypothesis that the bod...

Many lakes exhibit seasonal stratification, during which they develop strong thermal and chemical gradients. An expansion of depth-integrated monitoring programs has provided insight into the importance of organic carbon processing that occurs below the upper mixed laye...

Two anchovy forms identified from their external morphology and designated as 'Silver' and 'Blue' anchovies were captured in Mersin Bay (Eastern Mediterranean Sea). Silver anchovy seemed to inhabit shallower waters (9-77 m) than Blue anchovy (majority at depths of 69-11...

© 2014 Elsevier Ltd. A Cretaceous-Paleogene (K-Pg) succession is studied in detail in the Mudurnu-Göynük basin in northwestern Turkey. To characterize the K-Pg transition in this basin, two stratigraphic sections were measured and sampled at high resolution: the Okçular...