Baltic Sea nutrient reductions – What should we aim for?

Editorial: What we aim for

W hat is the level of quality and impact that we aim for in articles published in EMPH? This is an interdisciplinary journal that addresses a broad audience. Interdisciplinary work is often thought to suffer from a lack of rigor because it can escape the scrutiny that referees habitually apply to work in core disciplines. That is not what we intend here. We hold interdisciplinary work to a high...

Variability in climate change simulations affects needed long-term riverine nutrient reductions for the Baltic Sea

Changes to runoff due to climate change may influence management of nutrient loading to the sea. Assuming unchanged river nutrient concentrations, we evaluate the effects of changing runoff on commitments to nutrient reductions under the Baltic Sea Action Plan. For several countries, climate projections point to large variability in load changes in relation to reduction targets. These changes e...

Erythema nodosum :what should we consider about it?

Foliar mineral nutrient uptake in carnivorous plants: what do we know and what should we know?

CARNIVOROUS PLANTS AS ECOLOGICAL GROUP Carnivorous plants (CPs) usually grow in nutrient-poor, wet or aquatic environments and possess foliar traps which capture animal prey (Juniper et al., 1989). There are about 600 terrestrial and 50 aquatic or amphibious species of CPs which supplement the conventional mineral nutrient uptake by roots or shoots from their environment by the absorption of nu...

Reduction of Baltic Sea Nutrient Inputs and Allocation of Abatement Costs Within the Baltic Sea Catchment

The Baltic Sea Action Plan (BSAP) requires tools to simulate effects and costs of various nutrient abatement strategies. Hierarchically connected databases and models of the entire catchment have been created to allow decision makers to view scenarios via the decision support system NEST. Increased intensity in agriculture in transient countries would result in increased nutrient loads to the B...