Dominance of Scorpaena maderensis among scorpaenids of littoral rocky reefs in Corsica ( NW Mediterranean): further evidence of Mediterranean Sea warming

A high-resolution record of paleostorm events along the French Mediterranean coast over the past 7000 years was established from a lagoonal sediment core in the Gulf of Lions. Integrating grain size, faunal analysis, clay mineralogy and geochemistry data with a chronology derived from radiocarbon dating, we recorded seven periods of increased storm activity at 6300–6100, 5650–5400, 4400–4050, 3650–3200, 2800–2600, 1950–1400 and 400–50 cal yr BP (in the Little Ice Age). In contrast, our results show that the Medieval Climate Anomaly (1150–650 cal yr BP) was characterised by low storm activity.The evidence for high storm activity in the NW Mediterranean Sea is in agreement with the changes in coastal hydrodynamics observed over the Eastern North Atlantic and seems to correspond to Holocene cooling in the North Atlantic. Periods of low SSTs there may have led to a stronger meridional temperature gradient and a southward migration of the westerlies. We hypothesise that the increase in storm activity during Holocene cold events over the North Atlantic and Mediterranean regions was probably due to an increase in the thermal gradient that led to an enhanced lower tropospheric baroclinicity over a large Central Atlantic-European domain.

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Transformation of PBDE mixtures during sediment transport and resuspension in marine environments (Gulf of Lion, NW Mediterranean Sea)

Environmental Pollution ◽

10.1016/j.envpol.2012.04.019 ◽

2012 ◽

Vol 168 ◽

pp. 87-95 ◽

Cited By ~ 37

Author(s):

Joan A. Salvadó ◽

Joan O. Grimalt ◽

Jordi F. López ◽

Xavier Durrieu de Madron ◽

Serge Heussner ◽

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Keyword(s):

Sediment Transport ◽

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Marine Environments ◽

Gulf Of Lion ◽

Nw Mediterranean ◽

Nw Mediterranean Sea

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Assessment of biological effects of environmental pollution along the NW Mediterranean Sea using red mullets as sentinel organisms

Environmental Pollution ◽

10.1016/j.envpol.2007.07.028 ◽

2008 ◽

Vol 153 (1) ◽

pp. 157-168 ◽

Cited By ~ 36

Author(s):

Izaskun Zorita ◽

Maren Ortiz-Zarragoitia ◽

Itxaso Apraiz ◽

Ibon Cancio ◽

Amaia Orbea ◽

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Keyword(s):

Environmental Pollution ◽

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Biological Effects ◽

Nw Mediterranean ◽

Nw Mediterranean Sea ◽

Sentinel Organisms

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A Parasite of Marine Rotifers: A New Lineage of Dinokaryotic Dinoflagellates (Dinophyceae)

Journal of Marine Biology ◽

10.1155/2015/614609 ◽

2015 ◽

Vol 2015 ◽

pp. 1-5 ◽

Cited By ~ 1

Author(s):

Fernando Gómez ◽

Alf Skovgaard

Keyword(s):

Mediterranean Sea ◽

Nw Mediterranean ◽

Animal Hosts ◽

Nw Mediterranean Sea ◽

First Time ◽

Marine Rotifers

Dinoflagellate infections have been reported for different protistan and animal hosts. We report, for the first time, the association between a dinoflagellate parasite and a rotifer host, tentativelySynchaetasp. (Rotifera), collected from the port of Valencia, NW Mediterranean Sea. The rotifer contained a sporangium with 100–200 thecate dinospores that develop synchronically through palintomic sporogenesis. This undescribed dinoflagellate forms a new and divergent fast-evolved lineage that branches among the dinokaryotic dinoflagellates.

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