Biological, Physical and Geochemical Features of Enclosed and Semi-enclosed Marine Systems

The influence of river runoff on deep water conditions in the Baltic Sea.- Water exchange as the main physical process in semi-enclosed marine systems: the Gulf of Riga case.- Modelling of dispersion processes in a tide-forced flow.- Interannual and regional variability of biological variables in a coupled 3-D model of the western Baltic.- Modelling regional and large-scale response of Baltic Sea ecosystems to nutrient load reductions.- An integrated biogeochemical model system for the Baltic Sea.- Phytoplankton and nutrient dynamics in the north-east Irish Sea.- Response to lowered nutrient discharges in the coastal waters around the island of Funen, Denmark.- Seasonal succession and growth in the plankton communities of the Gulf of Riga in relation to long-term nutrient dynamics.- Response of aquatic communities to anthropogenic stress: a comparative study of Neva Bay and the eastern Gulf of Finland.- Denitrification in estuarine sediments in the eastern Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea.- Seasonal changes in sedimentary microbial communities of two eutrophic bays as estimated by biomarkers.- Sedimentation and particulate nutrient dynamics along a coastal gradient from a fjord-like bay to the open sea.- Phytoplankton and bacterioplankton production and bacterial biomass in a fjord-like bay — open sea gradient.- Heterotrophic nanoflagellates and bacteria in sediment of a brackish water sill basin in the Baltic Sea.- Identification of small-scale structure of plankton communities of the Black and Ionian Seas by their bioluminescence characteristics.- The benthic algal vegetation of land-locked fjords in southeastern Iceland.- Distribution of phytobenthos biomass in the Gulf of Riga (1984–1991).- Structure of phytobenthic and associated animal communities in the Gulf ofRiga.- Growth and production of three macrozoobenthic species in the Gulf of Riga, including comparisons with other areas.- A photographic study of the recolonization of cleared patches in a dense population of Mytilus edulis in the northern Baltic proper.- Structure of communities associated with dense assemblages of the tube-dwelling polychaete Polydora quadrilobata Jacobi (Spionidae) in the White Sea.- Distribution and seasonal dynamics of the Ponto-Caspian invader Cercopagis pengoi (Crustacea, Cladocera) in the Neva Estuary (Gulf of Finland).- Non-native animals in the Baltic Sea: alteration of benthic habitats in coastal inlets and lagoons.- Red tide of the dinoflagellate Heterocapsa triquetra (Dinophyta) in a ferry-mixed coastal inlet.- Littoral fish communities in the Archipelago Sea, SW Finland: a preliminary study of changes over 20 years.- Heavy metal uptake, physiological response and survival of the blue mussel (Mytilus edulis) from marine and brackish waters in relation to the induction of heat-shock protein 70.- Selection of southern Baltic banks — future marine protection areas.- Baltic Marine Biologists (BMB).- The Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA).