North-East Estonian coastal sea: Recovery from the past anthropogenic pressure and new stressors on the background of natural variability

WIT Transactions on Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 122, Issue , 2009, Pages 331-342

  Suursaar, U ^a   Aps, R ^a   Kotta, I ^a   Roots, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Eutrophication; Monitoring; Pollution load; Pollution spread; Recovery of habitat; Trends

Indexed keywords

EID: 78049496095     PISSN: 17433541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2495/ECO090311     Document Type: Article

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