Biological Soil Crusts from Coastal Dunes at the Baltic Sea: Cyanobacterial and Algal Biodiversity and Related Soil Properties

2015 ◽  
Vol 71 (1) ◽  
pp. 178-193 ◽  
Author(s):  
Karoline Schulz ◽  
Tatiana Mikhailyuk ◽  
Mirko Dreßler ◽  
Peter Leinweber ◽  
Ulf Karsten
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Soil Properties ◽  
Coastal Dunes ◽  
Biological Soil Crusts ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Soil Crusts ◽  
The Baltic

State of Scots pine (Pinus sylvestris L.) under nutrient and water deficit on coastal dunes of the Baltic Sea

Trees ◽  
2010 ◽  
Vol 24 (6) ◽  
pp. 1073-1085 ◽  
Author(s):  
Malle Mandre ◽  
Aljona Lukjanova ◽  
Henn Pärn ◽  
Kadri Kõresaar
Keyword(s):  
Pinus Sylvestris ◽  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Water Deficit ◽  
Scots Pine ◽  
Coastal Dunes ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
The Baltic

scholarly journals Impact of Hydro-Climatic Changes on Coastal Dunes Landscape According to Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (The Case Study of Curonian Spit)

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (11) ◽  
pp. 3234
Author(s):  
Julius Taminskas ◽  
Rasa Šimanauskienė ◽  
Rita Linkevičienė ◽  
Jonas Volungevičius ◽  
Gintarė Slavinskienė ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Vegetation Index ◽  
Normalized Difference Vegetation Index ◽  
Meteorological Parameters ◽  
Coastal Dunes ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Curonian Spit ◽  
Positive Correlation ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Moderate Positive Correlation

Coastal dunes are recognized as one of the most threatened ecosystems, the formation of which mainly depends on two opposite processes—sand dunes overgrowth and formation of open dunes. The application of cost-effective remote sensing methods permits monitoring the interaction of these two processes over a large area and long periods of time. Therefore in this study we assessed the links between hydro-meteorological parameters and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI) in Curonian spit coastal dunes landscape-a creation of human and nature integrity situated in the South eastern part of the Baltic Sea. Time series of NDVI (2000–2019) were obtained from the moderate resolution imaging spectro-radiometer and compared with hydro-meteorological parameters in three different ecosystems—forest, herbaceous and open sands. Moderate and strong positive correlation between NDVI and average wind speed was detected in non-forested ecosystems. Moderate positive correlation was detected between NDVI and the Baltic sea water level in all three analyzed ecosystems. Moderate positive correlation between NDVI and air temperature was found in forest ecosystem. This confirms that NDVI could be treated as an appropriate indicator, showing the interaction of coastal dunes overgrowth and formation of open dunes, and could be applied in its management that should be reconsidered under nowadays climate change.

scholarly journals Fungi in living and dead stems and stumps of Pinus mugo on coastal dunes of the Baltic Sea

2014 ◽  
Vol 50 (No. 4) ◽  
pp. 221-226 ◽  
Author(s):  
V. Lygis ◽  
I. Vasiliauskaite ◽  
A. Matelis ◽  
A. Pliūra ◽  
R. Vasaitis
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Root Rot ◽  
Dead Wood ◽  
Coastal Dunes ◽  
Fungal Communities ◽  
Pinus Mugo ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Xylotrophic Fungi ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Cut Stumps

Communities of xylotrophic fungi were studied in wood of Pinus mugo of different qualities: (i) living stems, (ii) cut stumps, (iii) burned snags, (iv) cut burned stumps, (v) stems recently killed by root rot, and (vi) old snags of root rot-killed trees. A total of 277 isolates representing 58 fungal taxa were obtained from 300 wood samples (50 samples per each substrate category). Results of the present study suggested that following different disturbances (tree felling, forest fire or root rot), fungal communities likely evolve in different directions: depending on its origin (cut, burned or killed by the disease), dead wood might be inhabited by principally different microbial assemblages, and that fire has less effect on community structures than tree felling or root rot.  

Even low to medium nitrogen deposition impacts vegetation of dry, coastal dunes around the Baltic Sea

2009 ◽  
Vol 157 (3) ◽  
pp. 792-800 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eva Remke ◽  
Emiel Brouwer ◽  
Annemieke Kooijman ◽  
Irmgard Blindow ◽  
Hans Esselink ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Nitrogen Deposition ◽  
Coastal Dunes ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
The Baltic

scholarly journals Coastal Dunes of the Baltic Sea Shores: A Review

2018 ◽  
Vol 37 (1) ◽  
pp. 47-71 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tomasz Arkadiusz Łabuz ◽  
Ralf Grunewald ◽  
Valentina Bobykina ◽  
Boris Chubarenko ◽  
Algimantas Česnulevičius ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Coastal Dunes ◽  
Coastal Dune ◽  
Eastern Coast ◽  
Western Coast ◽  
The South ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Coastal Retreat ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Sea Coast

Abstract The article summarises results of studies conducted along the Baltic Sea sandy coasts by scientists involved in coastal dune research, and presents an attempt to describe the types and distribution of dune coasts. The Baltic Sea coasts feature lower and higher foredunes. The lowland behind the coastal dune belt is covered by wandering or stabilised inland dunes – transgressive forms, mainly parabolic or barchans. The source of sediment for dune development includes fluvioglacial sands from eroded coasts, river-discharged sand, and older eroded dunes. Due to the ongoing erosion and coastal retreat, many dunes have been eroded, and some are withdrawing onto the adjacent land. There are visible differences between the south-eastern, western, and northern parts of the Baltic Sea coast with respect to dune development. The entire southern and eastern coast abounds in sand, so the coastal dunes are large, formerly or currently wandering formations. The only shifting dunes are found at the Polish and the Russian–Lithuanian coasts on the Łebsko Lake Sandbar as well as on the Vistula and Curonian Spits. The very diverse shoreline of the south-western coast experiences a scarcity of larger sandy formations. Substantial parts of the Baltic Sea sandy coasts have been eroded or transformed by humans. The northern part of the Baltic Sea coast features mainly narrow and low sandy coasts (e.g. in Estonia). Further north, sandy dunes are virtually absent.

Temporal and spatial sedimentation rate variabilities in the eastern Gotland Basin, the Baltic Sea

Boreas ◽  
2002 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 65-74 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Christiansen ◽  
Helmar Kunzendorf ◽  
Kay-Christian Emeis ◽  
Rudolf Endler ◽  
Ulrich Struck ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Sedimentation Rate ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Gotland Basin ◽  
Temporal And Spatial ◽  
The Baltic

Russian Oil: Production and Exports

2003 ◽  
pp. 136-146
Author(s):  
K. Liuhto
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Oil Production ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Oil Transportation ◽  
Sea Ports ◽  
The Baltic

Statistical data on reserves, production and exports of Russian oil are provided in the article. The author pays special attention to the expansion of opportunities of sea oil transportation by construction of new oil terminals in the North-West of the country and first of all the largest terminal in Murmansk. In his opinion, one of the main problems in this sphere is prevention of ecological accidents in the process of oil transportation through the Baltic sea ports.

Paleoecological study of bottom sediments of the lake Goluboye (Karelian Isthmus) according to the results of diatom analysis

2019 ◽  
pp. 265-269
Author(s):  
Angelina E. Shatalova ◽  
Uriy A. Kublitsky ◽  
Dmitry A. Subetto ◽  
Anna V. Ludikova ◽  
Alar Rosentau ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Bottom Sediments ◽  
Modern Science ◽  
Karelian Isthmus ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Diatom Analysis ◽  
North West ◽  
The North ◽  
Important Direction ◽  
The Baltic

The study of paleogeography of lakes is an actual and important direction in modern science. As part of the study of lakes in the North-West of the Karelian Isthmus, this analysis will establish the dynamics of salinity of objects, which will allow to reconstruct changes in the level of the Baltic Sea in the Holocene.

Holocene diatom biostratigraphy of the SW Gulf of Gdańsk, Southern Baltic Sea (part III)

2008 ◽  
Vol 37 (4) ◽  
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Leśniewska ◽  
Małgorzata Witak
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
The South ◽  
Gulf Of Gdańsk ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Southern Baltic Sea ◽  
Gulf Of Gdansk ◽  
Southern Baltic ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Palaeoenvironmental Changes

Holocene diatom biostratigraphy of the SW Gulf of Gdańsk, Southern Baltic Sea (part III)The palaeoenvironmental changes of the south-western part of the Gulf of Gdańsk during the last 8,000 years, with reference to the stages of the Baltic Sea, were reconstructed. Diatom analyses of two cores taken from the shallower and deeper parts of the basin enabled the conclusion to be drawn that the microflora studied developed in the three Baltic phases: Mastogloia, Littorina and Post-Littorina. Moreover, the so-called anthropogenic assemblage was observed in subbottom sediments of the study area.

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