Abstract
The book provides a historical sequence of events leading to the present-day Levantine biogeographical province with its impoverished freshwater and highly specific marine flora and fauna. A chapter on geological events in the Levant's early formative history is followed by one on Pleistocene changes (tectonics, chronology, marine biogeography, pluvials and interpluvials, and shifting rivers). The remainder of the book then examines the eastern Mediterranean (oceanography, zoobenthos and zooplankton, other biota, the Lessepsian migrants, and the impact of the Aswan high dam); the biota of the northern Red Sea and the Gulfs of Aqaba and Suez; halmyric or changing salinity environments; hydrology and limnology of the continental waters (the Jordan valley, Dead Sea, oasis springs, Lake Kinneret, river basin separation, Mesopotamia, the River Orontes, Ethiopia, Palearctic inftlux, the Lebanese rivers, Lake Hula, ephemerous waters, polluted and manmade waterbodies, etc). -J.W.Cooper
Original language | English |
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Title of host publication | The legacy of Tethys |
Subtitle of host publication | an aquatic biogeography of the Levant |
Publisher | Kluwer; Monographiae Biologicae, 63 |
ISBN (Print) | 0792301897, 9780792301899 |
State | Published - 1989 |