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Asia, middle east, coastal ecology

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Beaches and Coastal Geology

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The living world of the southeastern coasts of the Mediterranean is impoverished qualitatively and quantitatively as compared with that of the western Mediterranean. The quantitative scarceness is a result of the extremely low biological productivity of the Levantine basin. The littoral flora and fauna have a reduced diversity because of a number of factors. The subtropical temperatures and high salinities are suboptimal to the Mediterranean species of Atlantic origins. The consequences of late Pleistocenic brackish ( euxinic ) events are evident (Por, 1964). The poorly developed relief of the coast, devoid of gulfs, with the exception of the Bay of Haifa, is characterized by flat sedimentary shores and rocky bottoms carpeted by Nile sediments. With the exception of the Cenomanic chalk cliffs of Rosh-HaNiqra, there are only low aeolinitic ( kurkar ) cliffs and beach-rock slabs along the Israel shore.

Since the opening of the Suez Canal, over 200 Indo-Pacific migrant species have...

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Por, F.D. (1982). Asia, middle east, coastal ecology . In: Beaches and Coastal Geology. Encyclopedia of Earth Sciences Series. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/0-387-30843-1_30

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