Biodiversityreport

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Biodiversityreport

• Thessaloniki March 2000
• Presented by Jens Henrik Ringsbo, Sweden
• Title The Baltic Sea and its linking seas

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The Baltic Sea and its linking seas
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Sweden

• Low population 9 million
• Second biggest area in Europe
• The coast is quite long
• Densely built up areas found near the coast

PictureClaes Bernes 1999
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The Baltic Sea

• A proportionally small sea BUT!
• It provides coast for 9 countries
• Show organisms that have endured many problems
• THE BIGGEST BRACKWATER
• OF THE WORLD

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Map of Salinity

• Salinity decreases from blue to white
• Three deep basins
• Only freshwater comes over the higher parts

Picture Claes Bernes 1998
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Glacial relics
Triglopsis quadricornis (Photo Sven Halling 1998)
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Species

• Disappear Sea stars and sea urchins
• Up to the Bothnian Sea Blue mussel and Macoma
  
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  balthica
• The whole sea Balthic herring and sprat
• Coastal areas the Bothnian Sea the Gulf of
  Bothnia
• Pike,
  perch,roach
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  (freshwaterspecies)
  
• The Gulf of Bothnia Pondweed and spiked water
  milfoil

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M74 The Roe
Yellow M74 Red-orange healthy
(Photo Knut M. svensson 1979)
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M74 Body color and Yolk sac
Healthy
M74 see the body color and the yolk
sac (Photo Jenny Lundstrom 1999)
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