A review of oceanographical and biological investigations of HVAR Expedition

Abstract

       The present scientific paper contains review of oceanographic and biological research of the HVAR Expedition, that gave extremely valuable results upon which many studies of the Adriatic Sea were based on. The obtained results are related to the temperature data, salinity and the data of sea­bottom characteristics, as well as to a great number of samples of phytoplankton, zooplankton, ichthyoplankton, bacterioplankton, phytobenthos and zoobenthos.

      From today’s point of view, the HVAR Expedition special importance lies in the fact that obtained data got used for determination of the “zero state in the Adriatic’’ as indispensable base for further development of marine biology and for biological and physical oceanography of the Adriatic Sea.