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Caspian Sea - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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The Caspian Sea is the largest lake, both by its area and volume. The watershed of this large water body is approximately 3.5m km2 that makes more than 10 % of all drainless areas on the earth. The Caspian has a lot of unusual features.
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The Aral Sea, 300 miles to the east of Siberia's Lake Baikal, is ancient in origin. This was once the fourth-largest lake in the world, covering 25,000 square miles (Kinzer 1997). Two giant dams were constructed in the 1960s on its two feeder tributaries, the Amu Darya and Syr Darya. The diverted water...
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The water that serveth all that country is drawn by ditches out of the River Oxus, into the great destruction of the said river, for which it cause it falleth not into the Caspian Sea as it hath done in times past, and in short time all that land is like to be destroyed, and to become a wilderness for want...
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The Caspian Sea (Darya-ye Khazar, Darya-ye Mazandaran) basin is here taken to include both the rivers draining to that sea and the sea itself within Iranian territorial waters. ... The Caspian Sea is the largest "lake" or inland water body in the world at 436,284 sq km, a surface area encompassing 18% of the total area of...
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At the end of 1990s, however, we are faced with a new problem – the invasion of Mnemiopsis in the Caspian Sea (Ivanov et al., 2000). The most probably that this ctenophore was transported with ballast water taken aboard in the Black Sea or the Sea of Azov (where Mnemiopsis occurs in warm months) and released...
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Since it is a specific feeder on gelatinous zooplankton, and there are no endemic gelatinous organisms in the Caspian Sea, it will probably have no direct effect on the endemic fauna. Some thought that possible effects on the endemic fauna could occur, although no specific examples were put forward.
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