The Baltic Sea: An ecosystem with multiple stressors

[en] This introductory chapter to our Environment International VSI does not need an abstract and therefore we just include our recommendations below in order to proceed with the resubmission. Future work should examine waterbirds as food web sentinels of multiple stressors as well as Baltic Sea food web dynamics of hazardous substances and how climate change may modify it. Also, future work should aim at further extending the new frameworks developed within BALTHEALTH for energy and contaminant transfer at the population level (Desforges et al., 2018, Cervin et al., 2020/this issue Silva et al., 2020/this issue) and their long term effects on Baltic Sea top predators, such as harbour porpoises, grey seals ringed seals, and white-tailed eagles. Likewise, the risk evaluation conducted for PCB in connection with mercury on Arctic wildlife (Dietz et al., 2019, not a BONUS BALTHEALTH product) could be planned for Baltic Sea molluscs, fish, bird and marine mammals in the future. Finally, future efforts could include stressors not covered by the BONUS BALTHEALTH project, such as food web fluxes, overexploitation, bycatches, eutrophication and underwater noise.

Research Center/Unit :

FOCUS - Freshwater and OCeanic science Unit of reSearch - ULiège

Disciplines :

Environmental sciences & ecology
Aquatic sciences & oceanology

Author, co-author :

Dietz, R.

Sonne, C.

Jenssen, B.M.

Das, Krishna ; Université de Liège - ULiège > Département de Biologie, Ecologie et Evolution > Océanographie biologique

de Wit, C.A.

Harding, K.C.

Siebert, U.

Olsen, T.

Language :

English

Title :

The Baltic Sea: An ecosystem with multiple stressors

Publication date :

2021

Journal title :

Environment International

ISSN :

0160-4120

eISSN :

1873-6750

Publisher :

Elsevier, United Kingdom

Volume :

147

Pages :

106324

Peer reviewed :

Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi

Additional URL :

https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106324

Funders :

F.R.S.-FNRS - Fonds de la Recherche Scientifique
BONUS - EU

Commentary :

BONUS BALTHEALTH received funding from BONUS (Art. 185), funded jointly by the EU, Innovation Fund Denmark (grants 6180- 00001B and 6180-00002B), Forschungszentrum Jülich GmbH, German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (grant FKZ 03F0767A), Academy of Finland (grant 311966) and Swedish Foundation for Strategic Environmental Research (MISTRA). In some of the work, studies were approved by the Danish Nature Agency (SVANA) and funding from the Danish Environmental Protection Agency (supported under the Wildlife Contract).

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