Pascal Conan

TL;DR: In this article, a review of current functioning and responses of Mediterranean marine biogeochemical cycles and ecosystems with respect to key natural and anthropogenic drivers and to consider the ecosystems' responses to likely changes in physical, chemical and socio-economical forcings induced by global change and by growing anthropogenic pressure at the regional scale.

TL;DR: A critical view of the extent to which marine microorganisms can participate in the decomposition of plastic in the oceans and of the relevance of current standard tests for plastic biodegradability at sea is given.

TL;DR: Bacterial counts in PMD presented higher cell enrichment factors than generally observed for PA fraction, when compared to FL bacteria in the surrounding waters, and the community distinction between the three habitats was consistent across the large-scale sampling in the Western Mediterranean basin.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors provided an extensive vertical and longitudinal description of the biogeochemistry along an East-West transect of 3000 km across the Mediterranean Sea during summer 2008 (BOUM cruise).

TL;DR: In this article, the authors show that the degree of bacteria-phytoplankton coupling has an important effect on apparent trends between bacterial and phytoplastocyte production in high frequency data in the eastern Mediterranean.