The Air Quality and Influence of Etesians on Pollution Levels in the City of Rhodes: The Case of July 2022 by Ioannis Logothetis, Christina Antonopoulou, Georgios Zisopoulos, Adamantios Mitsotakis, Panagiotis Grammelis

“…In July 2022, strong and high-frequency northern sector winds blew over the Aegean Sea. The low tropospheric circulation in combination with air quality and human comfort is of great importance for the climate and human health. …”
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Bacterial Skin Microbiota of Seabass from Aegean Fish Farms and Antibiotic Susceptibility of Psychrotrophic <i>Pseudomonas</i> by Ali Aydin, Mert Sudagidan, Zhanylbubu Mamatova, Mediha Nur Zafer Yurt, Veli Cengiz Ozalp, Jacob Zornu, Saraya Tavornpanich, Edgar Brun

“…Farming seabass (<i>Dicentrarchus labrax</i>) is an essential activity in the Mediterranean basin including the Aegean Sea. The main seabass producer is Turkey accounting for 155,151 tons of production in 2021. …”
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Influence of Abiotic Environmental Factors on the Growth Rate of Red Mullet by Melnikova Elena, Kuzminova Natalya

“…The equations of length growth of M. barbatus ponticus showed retarded linear growth of the fish living on the south-western shelf of the Crimea in comparison with other areas, Sinop region (Black Sea) and the Aegean Sea. The comparison of the effect of temperature on the size and weight parameters of M. barbatus ponticus living in the south-eastern part of the Black Sea (Sinop region) and the Aegean Sea is carried out; general patterns and differences are noted.…”
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Estimation of a selected population parameters for Turkish marine waters' red mullet Mullus barbatus ponticus Essipov, 1927 (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Mullidae) by Dilek Türker

“… In order to calculate the length–weight and length–to–length relationships for red mullet Mullus barbatus ponticus Essipov, 1927 in Turkish marine waters, samples were collected from the Marmara Sea, the Northern Aegean Sea and the Western Black Sea by trawler from 2013 through 2016 fishing season. …”
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Comparative analysis of the social vulnerability assessment to climate change applied to fisheries from Spain and Turkey by Mauro Gómez Murciano, Yajie Liu, Vahdet Ünal, José Luis Sánchez LIzaso

“…The vulnerability was measured using the collected data and information through a structured questionnaire, and surveys were carried out among fishers in the Castelló (Spain) and the Aegean Sea (Turkey) between 2018 and 2019. Overall, the results indicated that the two studied regions have a moderate to high vulnerability and that the Aegean Sea was slightly more vulnerable than Castelló. …”
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Long-Term Variability of Wind Speed and Direction in the Mediterranean Basin by Takvor Soukissian, Maria-Aliki Sotiriou

“…This parameter demonstrates higher annual values for the Mistral wind in the Gulf of Lion and the Etesian winds in the Aegean Sea during the summer. Finally, the comparison of the results of ERA5 with the results of ERA-Interim highlighted significant differences in the Mediterranean wind speed and direction characteristics.…”
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Really Onychocellids? Revisions and New Findings Increase the Astonishing Bryozoan Diversity of the Mediterranean Sea by Antonietta Rosso, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Emanuela Di Martino

“…Investigation of bryozoan faunas collected in two submarine caves in Lesvos Island, Aegean Sea revealed a great number of colonies of three species currently assigned to the cheilostome family Onychocellidae: <i>Onychocella marioni</i> Jullien, 1882, <i>O. vibraculifera</i> Neviani, 1895, and <i>Smittipora disjuncta</i> Canu & Bassler, 1930. …”
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Bio-optical trends of seas around Turkey: An assessment of the spatial and temporal variability by Fethi Bengil, Sinan Mavruk

“…Chlorophyll-a concentration (CHL), absorption coefficient by colored dissolved organic matter (CDOM) and particulate backscattering coefficient (BBP) were both evaluated to describe their recent linear and non-linear inter-annual patterns in the sub regions of the northern Levantine Sea (LS), the eastern Aegean Sea (AS), the Marmara Sea (MS) and the southern Black Sea (BS). …”
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First record of the lesser amberjack, Seriola fasciata (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Carangidae), in the Levant by O. Sonin, P. Salameh, D. Golani

“…This species was known hitherto from the Atlantic Ocean and western and central Mediterranean and southeastern Aegean Sea.…”
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Easternmost record of the lancet fish, Notoscopelus kroyeri (Actinopterygii: Myctophiformes: Myctophidae), in the Mediterranean Sea by C. Keskin, L. Eryilmaz

“…One specimen of lancet fish,Notoscopelus kroyeri(Malm, 1861), was collected in March 2007 by commercial bottom trawl in the Aegean Sea. This record consists the easternmost record of lancet fish in the Mediterranean Sea. …”
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Biogeography pattern of the marine angiosperm Cymodocea nodosa in the eastern Mediterranean Sea related to the quaternary climatic changes by Ioannis Konstantinidis, Georgios A. Gkafas, Vasillis Papathanasiou, Sotiris Orfanidis, Frithjof C. Küpper, Sophie Arnaud‐Haond, Athanasios Exadactylos

“…ABC analysis revealed an initial split of the C. nodosa populations between the north‐western, northern, and north‐eastern Aegean Sea during the Pleistocene epoch, followed by a more recent divergence of the north‐western population and the central‐western part of the Aegean Sea. …”
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Terrestrial climate variability and seasonality changes in the Mediterranean region between 15 000 and 4000 years BP deduced from marine pollen records by I. Dormoy, O. Peyron, N. Combourieu Nebout, S. Goring, U. Kotthoff, M. Magny, J. Pross

“…Pollen-based climate reconstructions were performed on two high-resolution pollen marines cores from the Alboran and Aegean Seas in order to unravel the climatic variability in the coastal settings of the Mediterranean region between 15 000 and 4000 years BP (the Lateglacial, and early to mid-Holocene). …”
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Geodetic evidence for post-seismic deformations following the 2014 North Aegean Mw 6.9 earthquake by Michail Gianniou, Panagiotis Argyrakis, Tatiani Prasinou

“… The 2014 North Aegean Sea earthquake was a strong (Mw 6.9) event that caused significant crustal deformations. …”
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First documented record of imperial blackfish, Schedophilus ovalis (Actinopterygii: Perciformes: Centrolophidae), in the Aegean Greek waters by M. Corsini-Foka, A. Frantzis

“…The first record of imperial blackfish, Schedophilus ovalis (Cuvier, 1833), in the Greek waters of the Aegean Sea is herewith documented. This record increases the knowledge on the richness of the Hellenic marine ichthyofauna and may suggest an expansion of the geographical distribution of the species from the southern Levantine waters to northern areas.…”
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Contrasting patterns of climatic changes during the Holocene across the Italian Peninsula reconstructed from pollen data by O. Peyron, M. Magny, S. Goring, S. Joannin, J.-L. de Beaulieu, E. Brugiapaglia, L. Sadori, G. Garfi, K. Kouli, C. Ioakim, N. Combourieu-Nebout

“…<br><br> Comparison with marine cores from the Aegean Sea suggests that climate trends and gradients observed in Italy show strong similarities with those recognized from the Aegean Sea, and more generally speaking in the eastern Mediterranean.…”
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A Break of the Etesian Winds Regime Early in July 2022 by Nicholas G. Prezerakos

“…The predominant climatological wind regime in summer over the Greek Seas and especially over the Aegean Sea is undoubtedly the Etesian winds system, very well known since the time of the ancient Greeks, who first identified and described its main characteristics. …”
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Declining winter heat loss threatens continuing ocean convection at a Mediterranean dense water formation site by Simon A Josey, Katrin Schroeder

“…A major change in winter sea surface heat loss between two key Mediterranean dense water formation sites, the North–West Mediterranean (NWMed) and the Aegean Sea, since 1950 is revealed using atmospheric reanalyses. …”
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Deep-sea meiofaunal and foraminiferal communities along a gradient of primary productivity in the eastern Mediterranean Sea by Nikolaos Lampadariou, Anastasios Tselepides, Eleni Hatziyanni

“…Benthic metazoa and stained foraminifera (>32 μm) were studied in relation to prevailing environmental parameters in the Aegean Sea (Sporades Basin and Cretan Sea) and Levantine Basin (Ierapetra Basin) during the METEOR Cruise 40 Leg 3 (December 1997–January 1998). …”
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A preliminary study on the survival of brown comber, Serranus hepatus (Actinopterygii, Perciformes, Serranidae), escaping from the codend of a bottom trawl by F.O. Düzbastilar, A. Özgül, I. Aydin, B. Gül, P. Soykan

“…Two experiments were conducted off the Yassica Island, Izmir Bay (Aegean Sea, Turkish coast): in winter 2007 and summer 2008. …”
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Aliens in the Aegean – a sea under siege (ALAS) by Stelios Katsanevakis, Konstantinos Tsirintanis, Maria Sini, Vasilis Gerovasileiou, Nikoletta Koukourouvli

“…ALAS aims to fill knowledge gaps on the impacts of marine alien species in the Aegean Sea, and support marine managers and policy makers in prioritizing mitigation actions. …”
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