Ecosystems and living resources of the Baltic Sea: their assessment and management

This volume presents a reconstruction of the formation of the environmental conditions and biota in the present-day Baltic Sea area during the last glacial cycle and thereafter under the influence of extra-terrestrial, climatic and geological factors.

Abiotic conditions in the contemporary Baltic Sea are characterised and in this background the natural regional system of the sea has been generated.

The book also equips readers with basic principles of assessments and management of ecosystems and fish resources (including the long-term assessment and forecast on ecosystems and fish resources) and provides information on the structures of international collaboration developed in the Baltic Sea.