Fate of the Black Sea Acartia clausi and Acartia tonsa (Copepoda) penetrating into the Marmara Sea through the Bosphorus

2008-01-01
Hubareva, Elena
Svetlichny, Leonid
Kıdeyş, Ahmet Erkan
Isinibilir, Melek
In October 2005 spatial distribution of live and dead Acartia clausi and Acartia tonsil was studied in the Black and Marmara Seas and near the Marmara Sea inlet of the Bosphorus, in order to understand their fate upon transportation between two seas. The morphometric characteristics in both species from all studied areas, and the decreased abundance of A. clausi and A. tonsa from the Black Sea towards the Marmara Sea indicate that the Marmara Sea Acartia populations are formed by recruitment from the Black Sea. We observed mass mortality of A. clausi in the Marmara Sea near the Prince Islands. The majority of carcasses (66% of total A. clausi numbers in the Marmara Sea) were found in the salinity gradient layer.
ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

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E. Hubareva, L. Svetlichny, A. E. Kıdeyş, and M. Isinibilir, “Fate of the Black Sea Acartia clausi and Acartia tonsa (Copepoda) penetrating into the Marmara Sea through the Bosphorus,” ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE, pp. 131–140, 2008, Accessed: 00, 2020. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/31142.