Status of biodiversity in the Baltic sea

PLoS ONE

Volumn 5, Issue 9, 2010, Pages 1-19

  Ojaveer, Henn ^a   Jaanus, Andres ^a   Mackenzie, Brian R ^b   Martin, Georg ^a   Olenin, Sergej ^c,d   Radziejewska, Teresa ^e   Telesh, Irena ^f   Zettler, Michael L ^g   Zaiko, Anastasija ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^c Uni Research AS   (Norway)

^d KLAIPEDA UNIVERSITY   (Lithuania)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SZCZECIN   (Poland)

^f ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^g LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; BALTIC SEA; BENTHOS; BIODIVERSITY; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FISH; HYDROGRAPHY; MAMMAL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARINE SPECIES; NONHUMAN; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSICAL CHEMISTRY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SALINITY; WATER FLOW; WATER POLLUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE; ZOOPLANKTON; ANIMAL; CHEMISTRY; CLASSIFICATION; EUROPE; GROWTH, DEVELOPMENT AND AGING; HISTORY; MARINE BIOLOGY; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEA;

SEA WATER;

ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; EUROPE; FISHES; HISTORY, 19TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 20TH CENTURY; HISTORY, 21ST CENTURY; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAWATER; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 77957820267     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0012467     Document Type: Article

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