I - Executive summary
1 - Introduction
2 - Definition : what is a time series ?
3 - Methods for analysing time series
4 - Which high-order questions can be answered by time-series?
5 - What are the available Mediterranean time series already telling us ?
6 - Mediterranean time series : availability/gaps.
7 - Spatial and temporal scales.
8 - Priorities for future actions - recommendations

II - Workshop communications

Scales and methods
- Potential relevance of a "loopholes" conceptual framework to research studies of fish population dynamics in the Mediterranean Sea.
Andrew Bakun

- Ecosystem time-series analyses in the Black Sea.
Georgi M. Daskalov, Alexander Grishin, Vesselina Mihneva.

- Use of Box-Jenkins models to analyse time series of fishery data in relation to environmental factors in the northwestern Mediterranean.
Josep Lloret

- A unifying topological framework to deal with scales, intensity and unusual, extreme events in biological time series.
Laurent Seuront, François G. Schmitt.

- Linking the temporal variability in population abundance to the variability of community attributes.
Jaap van der Meer

- Trends in sardine catches and "mare sporco" in the Adriatic.
Tim Wyatt

- System modeling of biological time series in the Mediterranean Sea.
Harald Yndestad

From populations to ecosystems - Analysis and case studies
- Application of a multivariate mapping method to detect changes and spatial synchrony in phytoplankton composition at different temporal scales.
Orlane Anneville and S. Souissi

- How to use biological time series in Mediterranean ecosystem studies: can hydromedusae be indicator species ?
Adam Benovic and Davor Lucic

- Monitoring of coastal fishing communities along the Eastern Adriatic Coast (1960-1995).
Ivan Jardas

- Can market prices and fishery landings data tell us anything about underlying ecosystems ?
John K. Pinnegar, Trevor Hutton, Vincento Placenti and Nicholas V.C. Polunin

- Long-term investigations of small pelagic fish in the Adriatic Sea.
Gorenka Sinovcic

- Why biological time series require physical ones ?
Isabelle Taupier-Letage and Claude Millot

- Swordfish abundance trends in the Mediterranean.
G. Tserpes, P. Peristeraki and A. Di Natale

- Revising paradigms and myths of phytoplankton ecology using biological time series.
A. Zingone, P. Licandro and D. Sarno

III - Bibliographic references

IV - List of participants