@article {303,
	title = {Deep-sea ecosystem response to climate changes: the eastern Mediterranean case study},
	journal = {rends in Ecology \& Evolution},
	volume = {16},
	year = {2001},
	abstract = {<p>Climate change is significantly modifying ecosystem functioning on a global scale, but little is known about the response of deep-sea ecosystems to such change. In the past decade, extensive climate change has modified the physico-chemical characteristics of deep waters in the eastern Mediterranean. Climate change has caused an immediate accumulation of organic matter on the deep-sea floor, altered the carbon and nitrogen cycles and has had negative effects on deep-sea bacteria and benthic fauna. Evidence from a miniature ocean model provides new ways of interpreting signals from the deep sea and indicates that, contrary to what might have been expected, deep-sea ecosystems do respond quickly to climate change.</p>},
	keywords = {changement climatique, climate, climate change, deep sea ecosystem, deep water, deep-sea, eastern Mediterranean, eau profonde, ecosystem, {\'e}cosyst{\`e}me profond, fauna, Mediterranean sea, M{\'e}diterran{\'e}e orientale, Mer M{\'e}diterran{\'e}e, ocean},
	author = {R. Danovaro and A.Tselepides and M. Fabiano and A. Pusceddu and A. Dell{\textquoteright}Anno}
}
