AquaBiota now a member of a scientific committee for eDNA development
Micaela Hellström from AquaBiota is now a member of the scientific committee in the five year EU project called Developing new genetic tools for bioassessment of aquatic ecosystems in Europe (COST Act...
Read more »New report on coastal zone ecosystem services
Coastal ecosystems of the Nordic countries, such as kelp forests, blue mussel beds, eelgrass meadows and shallow bays and inlets, provide a number of supporting, provisioning, regulating, and cultural...
Read more »Article on the weathering processes of microplastic
Once plastic waste finds its way into the marine environment, various weathering processes lead to the generation of microplastic, release of chemical additives, and likely also production of nanoplas...
Read more »Detailed mapping of Hoburg Bank
Hoburg's Bank south of Gotland has high conservation values, which we already knew. A current project is now mapping the bank's conservation values by combining modern hydrographic surveys with biolog...
Read more »Marine ecosystem services: from ecological function to economic value
The final report of the VALUES project is now available (Nyström Sandman et.al. 2017). VALUES is a part of the research program “the value of ecosystem services”, funded by the Swedish EPA. This is th...
Read more »Proposed monitoring and assessment of underwater noise in the Baltic Sea
The four-year EU LIFE+ project Baltic Sea Information on the Acoustic Soundscape (BIAS) has now come to an end. The aim of the project was to demonstrate how to implement the Marine Strategy Framework...
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