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Multidecadal climate variability dominated past trends in the water balance of the Baltic Sea watershed

npj Climate and Atmospheric Science, 2023
The Baltic Sea watershed includes the territories of 14 countries in Northern, Central, and Eastern Europe. Long-term observations have shown that the climate in this area is characterised by a pronounced multidecadal variability, with a period of about ...
H. E. Markus Meier, Leonie Barghorn, Florian Börgel, Matthias Gröger, Lev Naumov, Hagen Radtke   +5 more
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Dynamics of an estuarine biotic community captured in high spatio-temporal resolution using metabarcoding

Scientific Data
Estuaries and coasts are dynamic transition zones linking freshwater and marine environments and are characterized by sharp physicochemical gradients.
T. Sperlea, C. C. Glackin, L. Vogel, E. Zschaubitz, C. Nietz, S. Elferink, C. Loose, H. Schröder, C. Hassenrück, M. Labrenz   +9 more
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Geomorphological Data from Detonation Craters in the Fehmarn Belt, German Baltic Sea

Data, 2022
Military munitions from World War I and II dumped at the seafloor are a threat to the marine environment and its users. Decades of saltwater exposure make the explosives fragile and difficult to dispose of. If required, the munition is blast-in-place. In
Svenja Papenmeier, Alexander Darr, Peter Feldens   +2 more
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Hypoxia-Related Processes in the Baltic Sea [PDF]

Environmental Science & Technology, 2009
Hypoxia, a growing worldwide problem, has been intermittently present in the modern Baltic Sea since its formation ca. 8000 cal. yr BP. However, both the spatial extent and intensity of hypoxia have increased with anthropogenic eutrophication due to nutrient inputs.
Conley, Daniel J., Björck, Svante, Bonsdorff, Erik, Carstensen, Jacob, Destouni, Georgia, Gustafsson, Bo G., Hietanen, Susanna, Kortekaas, Marloes, Kuosa, Harri, Meier, H.E. Markus, Müller-Karulis, Baerbel, Nordberg, Kjell, Norkko, Alf, Nürnberg, Gertrud, Pitkänen, Heikki, Rabalais, Nancy N., Rosenberg, Rutger, Savchuk, Oleg P., Slomp, Caroline P., Voss, Maren, Wulff, Fredrik, Zillén, Lovisa   +21 more
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Transport and Behavior of Microplastics Emissions From Urban Sources in the Baltic Sea

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2020
Urban sources, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs), untreated wastewater (not connected to WWTPs), and especially combined sewer overflow systems (CSS) including stormwater are major pathways for microplastics in the aquatic environment.
Gerald Schernewski, Gerald Schernewski, Hagen Radtke, Rahel Hauk, Christian Baresel, Mikael Olshammar, Robert Osinski, Sonja Oberbeckmann   +7 more
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Baltic Sea management: Successes and failures [PDF]

AMBIO, 2015
Severe environmental problems documented in the Baltic Sea in the 1960s led to the 1974 creation of the Helsinki Convention for the Protection of the Marine Environment of the Baltic Sea Area. We introduce this special issue by briefly summarizing successes and failures of Baltic environmental management in the following 40 years.
Elmgren, Ragnar, Blenckner, Thorsten, Andersson, Agneta   +2 more
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Changes in Seasonality of Saltwater Inflows Caused Exceptional Warming Trends in the Western Baltic Sea

Geophysical Research Letters, 2023
During the last decades, the Baltic Sea has been among the fastest warming seas in the world. The warming is mainly driven by increasing air temperatures but deeper water layers can also be warmed by lateral advection of heat.
L. Barghorn, H. E. M. Meier, H. Radtke
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Disaster avoided: current state of the Baltic Sea without human intervention to reduce nutrient loads

Limnology and Oceanography Letters
Excessive nutrient inputs have caused eutrophication of coastal ecosystems worldwide, triggering extensive algal blooms, oxygen‐depletion, and collapse of local fisheries.
Eva Ehrnsten, Christoph Humborg, Erik Gustafsson, Bo G. Gustafsson   +3 more
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Causes and consequences of acidification in the Baltic Sea: implications for monitoring and management

Scientific Reports, 2023
Increasing atmospheric CO2 drives ocean acidification globally. In coastal seas, acidification trends can however be either counteracted or enhanced by other processes.
Erik Gustafsson, Jacob Carstensen, Vivi Fleming, Bo G. Gustafsson, Laura Hoikkala, Gregor Rehder   +5 more
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Substrate Heterogeneity as a Trigger for Species Diversity in Marine Benthic Assemblages

Biology, 2023
Many studies show that habitat complexity or habitat diversity plays a major role in biodiversity throughout different spatial scales: as structural heterogeneity increases, so does the number of available (micro-) habitats for the potential species ...
Katharina Romoth, Alexander Darr, Svenja Papenmeier, Michael L. Zettler, Mayya Gogina   +4 more
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