Abstract Based on the Baltic Earth Assessment Reports of this thematic issue in Earth
System Dynamics and recent peer-reviewed literature, current knowledge of the effects of …

Climate change has multiple effects on Baltic Sea species, communities and ecosystem
functioning through changes in physical and biogeochemical environmental characteristics …

Many coastal and offshore fish species are highly dependent on specific habitat types for
population maintenance. In the Baltic Sea, shallow productive habitats in the coastal zone …

Coastal predatory fish are of key importance for the provisioning of ecosystem services in
the Baltic Sea. Worldwide, however, there has been a general and sharp decline in …

Many fish populations have experienced declines in recent decades due to anthropogenic
disturbances, such as overfishing and habitat exploitation. Despite management actions …

To understand food web dynamics, knowledge about factors influencing trophic interactions
is fundamental. Using stomach content analysis, we investigated size-dependent predator …

Marine urbanisation often results in the proliferation of artificial coastal defences and heavy
sedimentation, adversely impacting coral reef systems in tropical coastal cities. Knowledge …

The present study assessed the diet characteristics, trophic guild structure, and microplastics
(MPs) ingestion by a group of fish sourced from the tidal creeks of the Mumbai coast along …

Much evidence exists for sexually selected traits reflecting various components of mate
quality, but the factors that limit signal expression and ensure honest signaling are less well …

The abundance of pike, a keystone top-predator, have declined dramatically in the Baltic
Sea since the 1990s likely owing to recruitment failure. It has been proposed that wetland …