Download or read book Environmental Degradation of the Black Sea written by Şükrü T. Beşiktepe and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1999 with total page 412 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Black Sea currently faces severe ecological disequilibrium due primarily to eutrophication and other types of contamination from atmospheric, river and land-based sources. Among the most critical contemporary concerns are eutrophication and associated deterioration of water quality, plankton blooms, hypoxia and anoxia, loss of biodiversity and decline of living resources.