Biological, Physical and Geochemical Features of Enclosed and Semi-enclosed Marine Systems: Proceedings of the Joint BMB 15 and ECSA 27 Symposium, 9–13 June 1997, Aland Islands, Finland

Front Matter....Pages i-xiii
The influence of river runoff on deep water conditions of the Baltic Sea....Pages 1-10
Water exchange as the main physical process in semi-enclosed marine systems: the Gulf of Riga case....Pages 11-18
Modelling of dispersion processes in a tide-forced flow....Pages 19-24
Interannual and regional variability of biological variables in a coupled 3-D model of the western Baltic....Pages 25-33
Modelling regional and large-scale response of Baltic Sea ecosystems to nutrient load reductions....Pages 35-43
An integrated biogeochemical model system for the Baltic Sea....Pages 45-56
Phytoplankton and nutrient dynamics in the north-east Irish Sea....Pages 57-67
Response to lowered nutrient discharges in the coastal waters around the island of Funen, Denmark....Pages 69-81
Seasonal succession and growth in the plankton communities of the Gulf of Riga in relation to long-term nutrient dynamics....Pages 83-94
Response of aquatic communities to anthropogenic stress: a comparative study of Neva Bay and the eastern Gulf of Finland....Pages 95-105
Denitrification in estuarine sediments in the eastern Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea....Pages 107-115
Seasonal changes in sedimentary microbial communities of two eutrophic bays as estimated by biomarkers....Pages 117-125
Sedimentation and particulate nutrient dynamics along a coastal gradient from a fjord-like bay to the open sea....Pages 127-140
Phytoplankton and bacterioplankton production and bacterial biomass in a fjord-like bay — open sea gradient....Pages 141-150
Heterotrophic nanoflagellates and bacteria in sediment of a brackish water sill basin in the Baltic Sea....Pages 151-161
Identification of small-scale structure of plankton communities of the Black and Ionian Seas by their bioluminescence characteristics....Pages 163-167
The benthic algal vegetation of land-locked fjords in southeastern Iceland....Pages 169-180
Distribution of phytobenthos biomass in the Gulf of Riga (1984–1991)....Pages 181-190
Structure of phytobenthic and associated animal communities in the Gulf of Riga....Pages 191-200
Growth and production of three macrozoobenthic species in the Gulf of Riga, including comparisons with other areas....Pages 201-210
A photographic study of the recolonization of cleared patches in a dense population of Mytilus edulis in the northern Baltic proper....Pages 211-219
Structure of communities associated with dense assemblages of the tube-dwelling polychaete Polydora quadrilobata Jacobi (Spionidae) in the White Sea....Pages 221-226
Distribution and seasonal dynamics of the Ponto-Caspian invader Cercopagis pengoi (Crustacea, Cladocera) in the Neva Estuary (Gulf of Finland)....Pages 227-232
Non-native animals in the Baltic Sea: alteration of benthic habitats in coastal inlets and lagoons....Pages 233-243
Red tide of the dinoflagellate Heterocapsa triquetra (Dinophyta) in a ferry-mixed coastal inlet....Pages 245-251
Littoral fish communities in the Archipelago Sea, SW Finland: a preliminary study of changes over 20 years....Pages 253-260
Heavy metal uptake, physiological response and survival of the blue mussel ( Mytilus edulis ) from marine and brackish waters in relation to the induction of heat-shock protein 70....Pages 261-269
Selection of southern Baltic banks — future marine protection areas....Pages 271-277
Baltic Marine Biologists (BMB)....Pages 279-279
The Estuarine and Coastal Sciences Association (ECSA)....Pages 280-280