Newsletter

NEWSLETTER

Over the course of the project a newsletter has been published (3 editions). The newsletter will disseminate project results, discussions, details on up and coming meetings and workshops relating to marine biodiversity and research etc.

The final BIOMARE newsletter has been published and is available from: Chris Emblow (cemblow@ecoserve.ie) at Ecological Consultancy Services Ltd (EcoServe) Fax: +353 - 1 4925694.

Below are key marine biodiversity articles from researchers around Europe.

Newsletter 1 Autumn 2001 - pdf (1.0 mb) Exotics in the Mediterranean - bioindicators for a sea change The importance of diving in the study of marine biodiversity in the shallow Slovenian Sea (Gulf of Trieste)
Newsletter 2 Summer 2002 - pdf (0.6 mb) Idotea metallica in the German Bight – an indicator of a warming trend in the North Sea Changes in the diversity of the populations of gammarid crustaceans in the southern Baltic offshore waters Mass mortality of marine invertebrates in the NW Mediterranean (Summer 1999) Invasion of round goby (Neogobius melanostomus) from the Ponto-Caspian to the Baltic
Newsletter 3 Autumn 2002 - pdf (1.1 mb) Macro-algae functional groups as an assessment tool of biodiversity A sea of stone - biodiversity and history The invasive ctenophore Mnemiopsis problem in the Black and Caspian seas Biodiversity of the Banco di Santa Croce a marine protected area in the Gulf of Naples Mapping of marine biodiversity at marine Special Areas of Conservation (SACs) in the Azores Preliminary study of hyperbenthos in Heraklion Bay (Cretan Sea) Temperature and salinity, two essential structuring factors of biodiversity in the Baltic Sea Species diversity patterns of free-living marine nematodes in the Aegean Sea Madeira's biodiversity: management and conservation The high Arctic: challenges for European biodiversity research MarClim: Marine biodiversity and climate change
Newsletter 4 incorporated into MARS Newsletter No 6 A guide to the fish associated with deep-water coral reefs Canaries, for an alive coast! (Canarias, por una Coasta Viva) A pilot study aimed at the establishing Marine Protected Areas in the Maltese Islands Hard bottomed benthic communities: towards a new concept in assessing and monitoring marine biodiversity Unravelling the relationship between biological diversity and ecosystem processes on the mudflats of a large European estuary Life at the edge: benthic communities at the Barents Sea ice edge in a changing climate (BASICC): A Norwegian-Russian Cooperative Project