Formation and species composition of stormcast beach wrack in the Gulf of Riga, Baltic Sea * The study was supported by the EU Life+project MARMONI ‘Innovative approaches for marine biodiversity monitoring and assessment of conservation status of nature values in the Baltic Sea’, ESF grant No. 8980, Estonian target financed project SF0180104s08 and Institutional research funding IUT2-20 of the Estonian Research Council.

Formation and species composition of stormcast beach wrack in the Gulf of Riga, Baltic Sea * The study was supported by the EU Life+project MARMONI ‘Innovative approaches for marine biodiversity monitoring and assessment of conservation status of nature values in the Baltic Sea’, ESF grant No. 8980, Estonian target financed project SF0180104s08 and Institutional research funding IUT2-20 of the Estonian Research Council.

The aim of the study was to investigate hydrodynamic effects on the formation of beach wrack at three locations in the northern Baltic Sea and to quantify the differences between the composition of species found in the beach wrack and in the neighbouring sea. Hydrodynamic measurements and modelling...

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Main Authors: Ülo Suursaar, Kaire Torn, Georg Martin, Kristjan Herkül, Tiit Kullas
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2014-01-01
Series:Oceanologia
Subjects:
Beach wrack
Waves
Currents
Storms
Hydrodynamic modelling
Biodiversity
Macrovegetation
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0078323414500413

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