Ioanna Siokou-Frangou

TL;DR: An overview of the plankton studies conducted during the last 25 years in the epipelagic offshore waters of the Mediterranean Sea is presented, finding a "multivorous web" is shown by the great variety of feeding modes and preferences and by the significant and simultaneous grazing impact on phytoplankton and ciliates by mesozooplankon.

TL;DR: Analysis of seasonal dynamics of M. leidyi in the Black Sea and in other seas of the Mediterranean basin indicates similarities in the timing of maximum abundance and biomass, in spite of some differences in the initiation and duration of reproduction.

TL;DR: In this article, the results of a multidisciplinary and integrated study of the Aegean Sea were presented, including thermohaline circulation studies, SPM dynamics, mass and energy fluxes, and biochemical processes in the euphotic and the benthic layer and response to downward fluxes; the data were acquired within five (seasonal) research cruises, during 1997-1998.

TL;DR: In this article, a study of plankton food web structure and carbon flow in March and September 1997 in the Aegean Sea, area of outflow of Black Sea waters in the Mediterranean Sea.

TL;DR: The results showed that the small-sized copepods (calanoids and cyclopoids) dominated in terms of biomass and production, but also had a greater influence on the efficiency of the trophic coupling between the primary producers and the protozooplankton than the larger species, stressing their importance in the northern Aegean Sea and the Eastern Mediterranean in general.