MTP-II MATER
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MTP-II MATER is the acronym of the marine research project Mediterranean Targeted Project II-Mass Transfer and Ecosystem Response and was funded by the European Commission
's Marine Science and Technology Programme (MAST-III) from 1996 to 1999 (MAS3960051).
The main goal devoted to three subbasins - Western Mediterranean, Adriatic/Ionian and Aegean/Levantine, in the Mediterranean Sea
was:
The project included 58 research groups from 10 European member states and 3 non-EU states. The project was coordinated by Pierre Marie Lehucher at the Cabinet d'Etudes Techniques Industrielles et d'Innovations Scientifiques, Aix-en-Provence, France.
European Commission
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's Marine Science and Technology Programme (MAST-III) from 1996 to 1999 (MAS3960051).
The main goal devoted to three subbasins - Western Mediterranean, Adriatic/Ionian and Aegean/Levantine, in the Mediterranean Sea
Mediterranean Sea
The Mediterranean Sea is a sea connected to the Atlantic Ocean surrounded by the Mediterranean region and almost completely enclosed by land: on the north by Anatolia and Europe, on the south by North Africa, and on the east by the Levant...
was:
- to study and quantify the triggering and controlling processes of mass and energy (water ans its dissolved and particulate matter) transfer (transport and transformation) between the different compartments and in contrasting environments (from eutrophic to oligotrophic, from shelf to basins),
- to appraise the time and space scales of the phenomena, in identified structures of the Mediterranean system (basin and subbasin, mesoscale and submesoscale),
- to investigate the ecosystem response to these transfers and its evolution with time, from short-term to long-term through seasonal and interannual, as recorded in the water masses, in the biological communities and in the sedimentSedimentSediment is naturally occurring material that is broken down by processes of weathering and erosion, and is subsequently transported by the action of fluids such as wind, water, or ice, and/or by the force of gravity acting on the particle itself....
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The project included 58 research groups from 10 European member states and 3 non-EU states. The project was coordinated by Pierre Marie Lehucher at the Cabinet d'Etudes Techniques Industrielles et d'Innovations Scientifiques, Aix-en-Provence, France.