The Baltic Sea: An ecosystem with multiple stressors

peer reviewed 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 Balti...

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Published in:Environment International
Main Authors: Dietz, R., Sonne, C., Jenssen, B.M., Das, Krishna, de Wit, C.A., Harding, K.C., Siebert, U., Olsen, T.
Other Authors: FOCUS - Freshwater and OCeanic science Unit of reSearch - ULiège
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2021
Subjects:
POPs
mercury
Health effects
biomarkers
Baltic
Life sciences
Environmental sciences & ecology
Aquatic sciences & oceanology
Sciences du vivant
Sciences de l’environnement & écologie
Sciences aquatiques & océanologie
Climate change
Online Access:https://orbi.uliege.be/handle/2268/255848
https://orbi.uliege.be/bitstream/2268/255848/1/2021%20EI%20Dietz%20et%20al.%20.pdf
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.envint.2020.106324
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Summary:peer reviewed 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.

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