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Journal / article | 2012
Lindegren, M., Blenckner, T., Stenseth, N.C. 2012. Nutrient reduction and climate change cause a potential shift from pelagic to benthic pathways in a eutrophic marine ecosystem. Global Change Biology 18, 3491-3503
The degree to which marine ecosystems may support the pelagic or benthic food chain has been shown to vary across natural and anthropogenic gradients for e.g., in temperature and nutrient availability. Moreover, such external forcing may not only affect the flux of organic matter but could trigger large and abrupt changes, i.e., trophic cascades and ecological regime shifts, which once having occurred may prove potentially irr...
Tomczak, M.T., Niiranen, S., Hjerne, O., Blenckner, T. 2012. Ecosystem flow dynamics in the Baltic Proper-Using a multi-trophic dataset as a basis for food-web modeling. Ecological Modelling, 230, 123-147
The Baltic Proper is a semi-enclosed, highly productive basin of the Baltic Sea with a low biodiversity, where only a few key species drive the system's dynamics. Recently, an ecosystem regime shift was described having pronounced changes at all trophic levels, driven by changes in fishery and climate and leading to a food—web reorganisation. An Ecopath with Ecosim Baltic Proper food—web model (BaltProWeb) was developed to s...
Book chapter | 2012
Biggs R, T Blenckner, C Folke, L Gordon, A Norström, M Nyström, GD Peterson. 2012. Regime Shifts. In: Encyclopedia of Theoretical Ecology. A Hastings, L Gross (eds). University of California Press, Ewing, NJ, USA.
Nyström M., Norström A., Blenckner T., de la Torre-Castro M., Eklöf JS., Folke C., Österblom H., Steneck RS., Thyresson M., Troell M. (2012) Confronting Feedbacks of Degraded Marine Ecosystems. Ecosystems. DOI: 10.1007/s10021-012-9530-6
In many coastal areas, marine ecosystems have shifted into contrasting states having reduced ecosystem services (hereafter called degraded). Such degraded ecosystems may be slow to revert to their original state due to new ecological feedbacks that reinforce the degraded state. A better understanding of the way human actions influence the strength and direction of feedbacks, how different feedbacks could interact, and at wh...
Journal / article | 2011
Naddafi, R ; Blenckner, T ; Eklov, P ; Pettersson, K (2011) Physical and chemical properties determine zebra mussel invasion success in lakes, Hydrobiologia, 669:227-236
Publication review To address the question whether the abundance of an invasive species can be explained by physical and chemical properties of the invaded ecosystems, we gathered density data of invasive zebra mussels and the physical and chemical data of ecosystems they invaded. We assembled published data from 55 European and 13 North American lakes and developed a model for zebra mussel density using a generalized addi...
Pierson, DC; Weyhenmeyer, GA; Arvola, L; Benson, B ; Blenckner, T; Kratz, T; Livingstone, DM; Markensten, H; Marzec, G; Pettersson, K; Weathers, K. (2011) An automated method to monitor lake ice phenology, Limnology & Oceanography - Methods, 9:74-83
Publication review A simple method to automatically measure the date of ice-on, the date of ice-off, and the duration of lake ice cover is described. The presence of ice cover is detected by recording water temperature just below the ice/water interface and just above the lake bottom using moored temperature sensors. The occurrence of ice-on rapidly leads to detectible levels of inverse stratification, defined as existing w...
Mollmann, C; Blenckner, T ; Casini, M; Gardmark, A; Lindegren, M (2011) Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: management of Baltic cod stock requires an ecosystem approach, MARINE ECOLOGY-PROGRESS SERIES, 431:293-297
Publication review In a recent 'As We See It' article, Cardinale & Svedang (2011; Mar Ecol Prog Ser 425:297-301) used the example of the Eastern Baltic (EB) cod stock to argue that the concept of ecosystem regime shifts, especially the potential existence of alternative stable states (or dynamic regimes), blurs the fact that human exploitation (i.e. fishing) is the strongest impact on marine ecosystems. They further conclu...
Policy brief or report | 2011
FishSTERN A first attempt at an ecological-economic evaluation of fishery management scenarios in the Baltic Sea region, In: Swedish Environmental Protection Agency Report Series *Report 6428 • April 2011, ISBN 978-91-620-6428-0 ISSN 0282-7298
Humborg, C., C-M. Mörth, M. Sundblom, H. Borg, T. Blenckner, R. Giesler, and V. Ittekot. 2010. CO2 supersaturation along the aquatic conduit in Swedish watersheds as constrained by terrestrial respiration, aquatic respiration and weathering. Global Change Biology, Vol. 16, pp 1966-1978.
Publication review We tested the hypothesis that CO2 supersaturation along the aquatic conduit over Sweden can be explained by processes other than aquatic respiration. A first generalized-additive model (GAM) analysis evaluating the relationships between single water chemistry variables and p CO2 in lakes and streams revealed that water chemistry variables typical for groundwater input, e.g., dissolved silicate (DSi) and...
Journal / article | 2010
Tomczak, MT, Müller-Karulis, B. Jär, L, Kotta, L Martin, G, Minde,A, Põllumäe, A, Razinkovas, A, Strake, S, Bucas, M, Blenckner, T, 2009, Analysis of trophic networks and carbon flows in south-eastern Baltic coastal ecosystems, Progress in Oceanogr. 81, 111-131
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