Three areas of different ecosystem characteristics in the Northern Levantine Basin is compared using a 1-D multicomponent lower trophic level ecosystem model developed by SALIHOĞLU, B. et al. (2009) (NAGEM). Main focus was to analyze and compare the carrying capacity (PP) and regulatory mechanisms of the nutrients on lower trophic levels. 26 years’ of historical data obtained from METU-IMS data inventory and CORIOLIS was used to form a climatology, to introduce boundary conditions to the model as well as to carry out model skill analyses. At the three sites (Erdemli Times Series, that represents a coastal system, Mersin Bay, that represent offshore waters and Rhodes upwelling area) vertical mixing in winter and stratification in summer are ...