%0 Journal Article %J Archo Oceanogr.Limnol %D 2001 %T Influence of climatic changes on stocks, fish species ans marine ecosystems in the Mediterranean Sea %A Bombace %K biodiversité %K biodiversity %K changement climatique %K climate change %K ecosystem %K écosystème %K espèce d'eau chaude %K fish %K fish stock %K Mediterranean sea %K Mer Méditerranée %K poisson %K stock de poisson %K temperature %K warm-water species %V 22 %X

In the last decades, some modifications in stocks, fish species and the marine ecosystems have been recorded as a consequence of climatic changes in the Mediterranean sea. Many authors emphasize more and more frequently a "tropicalization of the Mediterranean sea" (Colloque Scient. Montpellier, 1995). Under a meteorological point of view, this process, shows considerable variability, and is characterized by torrential rains - concentrated in the space and time - followed by periods with high temperature and humidity. At sea, an increase in average temperature has been observed at different levels in the Mediterranean water column (Bethoux et al. 1990).