Sedimentary Records of Environmental Changes and Anthropogenic Impacts during the Past Decades

State and Evolution of the Baltic Sea, 1952-2005: A Detailed 50-Year Survey of Meteorology and Climate, Physics, Chemistry, Biology, and Marine Environment

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 395-439

  Leipe, Thomas ^a   Harff, Jan ^a   Meyer, Michael ^a   Hille, Sven ^a   Pollehne, Falk ^a   Schneider, Rolf ^a   Kowalski, Nicole ^a   Brügmann, Lutz ^b  

^a LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b Wissenschaftskontor Nord GmbH and Co KG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Baltic sea changing coastlines; Helsinki Commission (HELCOM); Sedimentary environmental changes and anthropogenic impacts

Indexed keywords

EID: 73449083797     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9780470283134.ch14     Document Type: Chapter

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