The Mediterranean Sea regime shift at the end of the 1980s, and intriguing parallelisms with other European basins.

BACKGROUND: Regime shifts are abrupt changes encompassing a multitude of physical properties and ecosystem variables, which lead to new regime conditions. Recent investigations focus on the changes in ecosystem diversity and functioning associated to such shifts. Of particular interest, because of t...

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Main Authors: Alessandra Conversi, Serena Fonda Umani, Tiziana Peluso, Juan Carlos Molinero, Alberto Santojanni, Martin Edwards
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2010-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC2873283?pdf=render