The Black Sea. Dynamics, Ecology and Conservation

      
     This new book presents topical research data in the study of the Black Sea, including the influence of the Danube River on the trophic functioning of coastal ecosystems in the north-western Black Sea; the ecotoxicological study of the Sevastopol region of the Black Sea; the environmental matrix and the impact of pollutants on marine organisms in the Black Sea; water resources, general seismicity, hydrocarbon generation and environmental problems of the Black Sea.

     Table of Contents:
     Preface

 Influence of Danube River Inputs on the Trophic Functioning of Coastal Ecosystems in the North-Western Black Sea;pp. 1-55
(Daniela Banaru, Mireille Harmelin-Vivien, Centre IFREMER, Département Halieutique Méditerranéen et Tropical, Bd Jean Monnet, Sete Cedex, France, and others)

Ecotoxicological Studies of Black Sea Ecosystem at the Case of Sevastopol Region;pp. 57-94
(I.I. Rudneva, Institute of the Biology of the Southern Seas National Ukrainian Academy of Sciences, Sevastopol, Ukraine)

Dynamics of the Environmental Matrix in the Black Sea as Reflected by Recent Measurements and Simulations with Numerical Models;pp. 95-127
(E. Rusu, F. Onea, R. Toderascu, Galati University Dunarea de Jos, Romania)

Pollutants in the Black Sea and their Impact to Marine Organisms;pp. 129-150
(Jordan T. Nechev, Institute of Organic Chemistry with Center of Phytochemistry, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia, Bulgaria)

Black Sea and Hydrogen Sulphide;pp. 151-174
(S.Z. Baykara, Chemical Engineering Department, Yildiz Technical University, Topkapı, Istanbul, Turkey)

Study on Water Resources in the Romanian Black Sea Region;pp. 175-205
(Alina Bărbulescu, Dacian Constantin Teodorescu, Judicael Deguenon, Ovidius University of Constanta, Romania, and others)

General Seismicity of Black Sea and Recent Seismic Investigation in this Region;pp. 207-225
(Dmitry G. Levchenko, Ivan P. Kuzin, Shirshov Institute of Oceanology of the Russian Academy of Science, Moscow, Russia)

Long-Term Changes in Feeding and Species Composition of Ichthyoplankton Community of the Coastal Waters near Sevastopol (the Black Sea), 1960-2008;pp. 227-241
(Irina V. Vdodovich, Institute of the Biology of Southern Seas, National Academy of Sciences of the Ukraine, Sevastopol, Ukraine)

Hydrocarbon Generation and Accumulation in the Histria Basin of the Western Black Sea;pp. 243-263
(Constantin Cranganu, Mihai Saramet, Brooklyn College of the City of New York, Brooklyn, New York, USA, and others)

Present Problems of the Black Sea;pp. 265-274
(Alexandru S. Bologa, National Institute for Marine Research & Development “Grigore Antipa”, Constanta, Romania)

Water Management and Providing Environmental Sustainability in the Black Sea;pp. 275-282
(Feza Geyikçi, Department of Chemical Engineering, Faculty of Engineering, Ondokuz Mayıs University, Kurupelit, Samsun, Turkey)