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 …

Coastal global oceans are expected to undergo drastic changes driven by climate change
and increasing anthropogenic pressures in coming decades. Predicting specific future …

Coastal environments, in particular heavily populated semi-enclosed marginal seas and
coasts like the Baltic Sea region, are strongly affected by human activities. A multitude of …

The occurrence of regime shifts in marine ecosystems has important implications for
environmental legislation that requires setting reference levels and targets of quantitative …

Five decades of stomach content data allowed insight into the development of consumption,
diet composition, and resulting somatic growth of Gadus morhua (Atlantic cod) in the eastern …

Genetic data have great potential for improving fisheries management by identifying the
fundamental management units—that is, the biological populations—and their mixing …

The argument that sufficiently high fishing mortality (selective or not) can effect genetic
change in fished populations has gained considerable traction since the late 1970s. The …

Coastal‐estuarine systems are among the most productive marine ecosystems and their
special role in producing harvestable fish and shellfish has been attributed to high primary …

The Eastern Baltic cod (Gadus morhua) stock is currently in a very poor state, with low
biomass and adverse trends in several life history and demographic parameters. This raises …

Over the last decades, mass mortality events have become increasingly common across
taxa with sometimes devastating effects on population biomass. In the aquatic environment …