The Water Chemistry and Phytoplankton Community of the Caspian Sea

The Caspian Sea, surrounded by the five coastal countries the Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russian and Turkmenistan, is the largest land-locked water body on Earth. The isolation of the Caspian Basin together with its climatic and salinity gradients has created a unique ecological system with some 400 species endemic to the Caspian waters. With habitat destruction, pollution, climate change, the introduction of M. leidyi, Change the environmental chemistry, Nutrient enrichments, the algal bloom events and many more, what is going to happen to the Caspian Sea?