Abstract Based on the Baltic Earth Assessment Reports of this thematic issue in Earth
System Dynamics and recent peer-reviewed literature, current knowledge of the effects of …

Recently performed scenario simulations for the Baltic Sea including marine
biogeochemistry were analyzed and compared with earlier published projections. The Baltic …

Climate change has multiple effects on Baltic Sea species, communities and ecosystem
functioning through changes in physical and biogeochemical environmental characteristics …

Coastal environments, in particular heavily populated semi-enclosed marginal seas and
coasts like the Baltic Sea region, are strongly affected by human activities. A multitude of …

Abstract The Baltic Sea is one of the fastest-warming semi-enclosed seas in the world over
the last decades, yielding critical consequences on physical and biogeochemical conditions …

Progressive climate change holds the potential for increasing human health risks from
waterborne infections and intoxications, eg through an increase in pathogen concentrations …

Oxygen deficiency is a major problem in the Baltic Sea. To study the impact of hypoxia on
the functional diversity of benthic fauna and the possibility of macrozoobenthos recovery …

Multiple climate-driven stressors, including warming and increased nutrient delivery, are
exacerbating hypoxia in coastal marine environments. Within coastal watersheds …

Climate change is causing habitat salinity to transform at unprecedented rates across the
globe. While much of the research on climate change has focused on rapid shifts in …

Sea level rise (SLR) is a major concern for Europe, where 30 million people live in the
historical 1-in-100-year event flood coastal plains. The latest IPCC assessment reports …