This book offers an up-to-date overview of the latest scientific findings in regional climate
research on the Baltic Sea basin. This includes climate changes in the recent past, climate …

The biomass ratio of copepoda/cladocera decreased in the Northern Baltic Archipelago Sea
(SW Finland) in concert with a decrease in the seawater salinity during the 1980s. There …

Mesozooplankton data were collected from 1960 to 1997 three times per year in the Central
Baltic Sea (Latvian Economic Zone). Interannual variability of the biomass of different …

In highly seasonal systems, the emergence of planktonic resting stages from the sediment is
a key driver for bloom timing and plankton community composition. The termination of the …

The seasonal occurrence and hatching of benthic eggs of calanoid copepods were studied
for 1 yr in the surface sediments at 2 sites (a 33 m deep archipelago area and a 42 m deep …

We analysed long-term monitoring data from 1979 to 2012 in the Gulf of Bothnia, the
northernmost extension of the Baltic Sea, to examine changes in the summer food web …

It is commonly accepted that summer cyanobacterial blooms cannot be efficiently utilized by
grazers due to low nutritional quality and production of toxins; however the evidence for …

The predatory impacts of Cercopagis pengoi, a planktivorous cladoceran first observed in
Lake Ontario in 1998, were assessed by examining patterns in the distribution and …

We investigated prey selection by the 2 most important planktivores in the northern Baltic,
the Baltic herring Clupea harengus membras L. and the mysid shrimp Mysis mixta Lilljeborg …

Climate-induced warming and increased river inflows are forcing the Baltic Sea to radical
changes in the near future; organisms living in this brackish-water ecosystem are already …