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Hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea: An integrated thematic assessment of hazardous substances in the Baltic Sea
Samuli Korpinen,Maria Laamanen,Jesper H. Andersen,Lillemor Asplund,Urs Berger,Anders Bignert,Elin Boalt,Katja Broeg,Anna Brzozowska,Ingemar Cato,Mikhail Durkin,Galina Garnaga,Kim Gustavson,Michael Haarich,Britta Hedlund,Petriina Köngäs,Thomas Lang,Martin M. Larsen,Kari K. Lehtonen,Jaakko Mannio,Jukka Mehtonen,Ciarán Murray,Sven Poul Nielsen,Bo Nyström,Ksenia Pazdro,Petra Ringeltaube,Doris Schiedek,Rolf Schneider,Monika Stankiewicz,Jakob Strand,Brita Sundelin,Martin Söderström,Henry Vallius,Paula Vanninen,Matti Verta,Niina Vieno,Pekka J. Vuorinen,Andre Zahharov +37 more
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Do wastewater treatment plants act as a potential point source of microplastics?Preliminary study in the coastal Gulf of Finland, Baltic Sea
Julia Talvitie,Mari Heinonen,Jari-Pekka Pääkkönen,Emil Vahtera,Anna Mikola,Outi Setälä,Riku Vahala +6 more
TL;DR: WWTPs may operate as a route for microplastics entering the sea because the average fibre concentration was 25 times higher and the particle concentration was three times higher in the effluent compared to the receiving body of water.
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Overview of Integrative Assessment of Marine Systems: The Ecosystem Approach in Practice
Ángel Borja,Michael Elliott,Jesper H. Andersen,Torsten Berg,Jacob Carstensen,Benjamin S. Halpern,Benjamin S. Halpern,Anna-Stiina Heiskanen,Samuli Korpinen,Julia S. Stewart Lowndes,Georg Martin,Naiara Rodríguez-Ezpeleta +11 more
TL;DR: Five existing methods that address the needs of monitoring and assessment of marine ecosystems are reviewed, highlighting their main characteristics and analyzing their commonalities and differences.
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Human pressures and their potential impact on the Baltic Sea ecosystem
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors report the first attempt to quantify the magnitude and distribution of cumulative impacts of anthropogenic pressures for an entire regional sea, the Baltic Sea, and show that the highest estimated impacts were in the southern and southwestern sea areas and in the Gulf of Finland.
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Abundance and composition of near surface microplastics and plastic debris in the Stockholm Archipelago, Baltic Sea.
TL;DR: The abundance of plastic debris near Stockholm was similar to urban areas in California, USA, and the overall abundance in the Stockholm Archipelago wasSimilar to plastic abundance reported in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea.
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Bisphenol A, 4-tert-Octylphenol, and 4-Nonylphenol in The Gulf of Gdańsk (Southern Baltic)
Marta Staniszewska,Lucyna Falkowska,Paweł Grabowski,Justyna Kwaśniak,Stella Mudrak-Cegiołka,Andrzej R. Reindl,Adam Sokołowski,Emilia Szumiło,Aleksandra Zgrundo +8 more
TL;DR: High BPA and NP concentrations in guano indicated the ability of birds to detoxify and signalled the reintroduction of these compounds to seawater, and herring, flounder, and cod from the Southern Baltic are a safe food source for human consumption because their B PA and alkylphenol contents are low.
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