The nutrition available for fish in the northern Baltic Sea has become lighter during the past 30 years. ”The amount of energy available for planktivorous organisms has declined after the late 1......

CURRENT Euroopean Commission: GisBloom is one of the best projects GisBloom-project has been chosen one of the best project of the LIFE Environment projects. News (Januar...

Summary In this project we aim to develop and build a pilot scale, tubular photobioreactor for growing microalgae in Vietnam. The reactor will use wastewater with high concentration of nutrients...

Summary In this project we will develop and test an algal turf scrubber under Finnish summer conditions. A community of algae will be grown in a biofilm on the turf scrubber and we will invest...

Load of organic matter to the Baltic Sea has been identified as the second greatest environmental pressure both in the Bothnian Bay and in the Gulf of Finland by the HELCOM Holistic Assessment. The p...

Baltic Sea has suffered from anthropogenic phosphorus loading for many decades and phosphorus has accumulated into the bottom sediments. During oxic conditions, surface sediments can retain phosph...

Iron has a controlling role in numerous environmental processes by participating dissolution and binding of substances affecting the status of the environment. Iron acts also as a nutrient and it may...

Short description of the project Life cycles of the Baltic Sea bloom-forming cyanobacteria are, apart from the bloom period, still poorly known. Many phytoplankton species produce specializ...

Project description Climate scenarios predict large scale changes in e.g. water balance in Baltic Sea catchment and notable increase in average temperatures. Changes are predicted to affect e...

The objective is to construct parsimonious, mechanistic and stoichiometrically explicit food web models for the plankton ecosystem, identify key components and flows, and rigorously quantify a set...