A new method for classifying soft-bottom zoobenthic assemblages along the Finnish coasts (northern Baltic Sea) is presented and tested against traditional physicochemical monitoring data in the complex Archipelago Sea. Although multivariate methods for assessing the state of the marine environment have become widely used, few numerical indices can operate over a wide salinity range. We compare ...

HÅKANSON, L. and LINDGREN, D., 2008. On regime shifts and budgets for nutrients in the open Baltic Proper: evaluations based on extensive data between 1974 and 2005. Journal of Coastal Research, 24(0), 000–000. West Palm Beach (Florida), ISSN 0749-0208. Empirical data ultimately form the basis for most environmental studies. This work uses extensive data sets from the Baltic Proper on total pho...

In the sedimental organic matter of eutrophic continental seas, such as the largest dead zone in the world, the Baltic Sea, bacteria may directly participate in nutrient release by mineralizing organic matter or indirectly by altering the sediment's ability to retain nutrients. Here, we present a case study of a hypoxic sea, which receives riverine nutrient loading and in which microbe-mediated...

A review of environment problems in the coastal sea of South China Qiuying Han a , Xiaoping Huang b , Qianguo Xing a & Ping Shi a a Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Environment Processes, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Coastal Zone Environment Processes, Yantai Institute of Coastal Zone Research, Chinese Academy of Sciences, Yantai, 264003, P.R. China b LED, So...

The objective of this study is to determine microhabitat preferences benthic species occurring in epilithic (living on stones), epipsammic (growing sand), epipelic mud) and epiphytic seagrass) assemblages the shallows Gulf Gdańsk (southern Baltic Sea). material was collected from 19 sites along Gdynia–Sopot coastal zone, including Port Gdynia. Most identified diatom taxa were observed two or th...