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By Ulrich Schiewer
This quantity presents the 1st entire assessment of the big ecological variety of Baltic coastal ecosystems. a quick creation into the Baltic Sea as a reference surroundings is by way of special descriptions of the features of coastal ecosystems. Ecological case reports from the next 4 areas illustrate the several reactions of those ecosystems to typical and anthropogenic affects: Southern Baltic coast: Fjörden, Boddens, Lagoons and nearshore zones, japanese Baltic coast: Gulf of Gdansk, Gulf of Riga, Northeastern Baltic coast: Neva Estuary and Gulf of Finland, Western Baltic coast: Stockholm Archipelago, Askö zone and Himmerfjärden, Odense Fjord and Kerteminde Fjord/Kertinge Nor.This quantity additionally offers a synthesis of the typical and distinguishing features and techniques of the coastal waters in comparison with the Baltic right, in addition to highlighting study deficits. An outlook on additional advancements in coastal learn rounds off the amount.
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6 Distribution of macrophytobenthos in different regions of the Baltic Sea (Schwenke 1995) As a result of the unfavourable and, more importantly, the changing salinity and historically short development time of the Baltic Sea as a brackish sea, hardly any genuine brackish water species are found among the animals. Exceptions are the cosmopolitan Fabricia sabella and Streblospio shrubsolii, which also occur in the Mediterranean region, and Alkmaria romijni, which inhabits only the North Sea and the Baltic Sea.
1 Spatial distribution of coastal types of the Baltic Sea (Schubert and Blindow 2004) ● ● ● ● material. Additionally, we find chalk or moraine cliffs on the islands of Rügen and Usedom. The Polish Pomeranian coast, from Wollin up to the Hel peninsula, is shaped by coastal levelling (“Ausgleichsküste”), which is also typical for the coasts between Klaipeda and Riga stretching as far as the Pärnu Bay. The coasts there are increasingly becoming a smoothed course. g. near Łeba). The mouth of the river Wisła represents a typical delta coast, whereas the sediment-rich river forms a wide transitional zone, which consists of alluvial islands, filled backwaters and residual lakes, between the mainland and the sea.
Less than 50% of the POC is living organisms, the rest consists of detritus (see Chap. 17 by Schiewer, this volume). 5 Spatial and Temporal Variations in the Baltic Sea Increasing algal blooms in the coastal zones, decreasing transparency in the water column and more frequent anoxic conditions in the deeper basins are leading to changes in the Baltic Sea. More detailed examinations confirm: ● ● ● ● ● A general increase in nitrate of 4–5% per year in all depth zones of the Bothnian Bay and below 20 m in the Bothnian Sea.