Mnemiopsis leidyi Invasion and Biodiversity Changes in the Caspian Sea

1.1 Caspian Sea The complex history of the Caspian Sea formation has lead to a variety of different habitats. Like Australia, the Caspian Sea became isolated thousands of years ago (Plate 1). This isolation led to the speciation of many rare animals in particular the sturgeon. The Caspian Sea is the biggest enclosed body of water on Earth, having an even larger area than that of the American Great Lakes or that of Lake Victoria in East Africa. It is situated where the South-Eastern Europe meets the Asian continent, between latitudes 47 .07N and 36 .33N and longitudes 45 .43E and 54 .20E. It is approximately 1,030 km long and its width ranges from 435 km to a minimum of 196 km. It has no connection to the world’s oceans and its surface level at the moment is around _26.5 m below MSL. At this level, its total coastline is some 7,000 km in length and its surface area is 386,400 km2. The water volume of the lake is about 78,700 km3.

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  2011

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• Publication date

  2011-12-16

• Fields of study

  Biology, Geography, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.5772/23945
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  Open on Semantic Scholar

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