Changes in the Zooplankton of the Eastern Sea of Marmara
Journal: OpenMETU (Middle East Technical University)
Year: 2024

The study conducted in the eastern Sea of Marmara from 2016 to 2022 aimed to investigate the spatio-temporaldistributions of mesozooplankton in relation to changing environmental conditions. A total of 43 zooplankton taxa wereidentified, with the number of species varying between 4 and 19 in the brackish upper layer (resembling the Black Sea)and between 1 and 17 in the saline lower layer (resembling the Mediterranean Sea). The abundances of zooplanktonranged from 28 to 43,359 ind.m-3 in the uppe