Our review of the literature showed that since the beginning of the socio-economic
transformation in Poland in the 1990s, the downward trend in Hg emissions and its …

Abstract Stocks of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in the Baltic Sea, Kattegat and Skagerrak (N.
Europe) have been strongly exploited for decades bringing them into an enduringly …

The occurrence of regime shifts in marine ecosystems has important implications for
environmental legislation that requires setting reference levels and targets of quantitative …

Hypoxia is presently seen as the principal driver behind the decline of the former dominating
Eastern Baltic cod stock (EBC; Gadus morhua). It has been proposed that both worsening …

During the past 20 years, hypoxic areas have expanded rapidly in the Baltic Sea, which has
become one of the largest marine “dead zones” in the world. At the same time, the most …

The authors assessed the importance of the round goby Neogobius melanostomus as prey
for three native predatory fish species, Atlantic cod Gadus morhua, European perch Perca …

Coastal German waters contain about 1.6 million tons of dumped munition, mostly left after
World Wars. This study investigated the benthic macrofauna around the 'Kolberger …

An organism's body condition describes its mass given its length and is often positively
associated with fitness. The condition of Atlantic cod (Gadus morhua) in the Baltic Sea has …

Eutrophication, increased temperatures and stratification can lead to massive, filamentous,
N2‐fixing cyanobacterial (FNC) blooms in coastal ecosystems with largely unresolved …

Global changes, through their impacts on ecosystem trophic structures, are behind regime
shifts and cascading effects, and could result in the reorganization of whole ecosystems. The …