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BEAST: Biological Effects of Anthropogenic Chemical STress:Tools for the assessment of Ecosystem Health

Project: Research

  • Strand, Jakob (Project manager)
  • Storm, Lars Mølgaard (Participant)
  • Larsen, Martin Mørk (Participant)
  • Kofoed, Peter M. (Participant)
  • Jensen, Dorete Weysmann (Participant)
  • Søborg, Birgit (Participant)
  • Schiedek, Doris (Project manager)
  • Section for Marine Ecology
  • Department of Arctic Environment
  • Finnish Institute of Marine Research (FIMR)
  • LATVIAN INSTITUTE OF AQUATIC ECOLOGY, LATVIA (LHEI)
  • Vilnius University
  • University of Latvia
  • ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH, GERMANY (AWI)
  • SEA FISHERIES INSTITUTE, POLAND (SFI)
  • Institute of Applied Ecology Ltd, Germany
  • ZOOLOGICAL INSTITUTE OF RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES, RUSSIA (ZIN RAS)
  • SCIENTIFIC RESEARCH CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL SAFETY RAS, RUSSIA (SRCES RAS)
  • FEDERAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR FISHERIES, INSTITUTE FOR FISHERY ECOLOGY, GERMANY (BFAFI/IFÖ)
  • ATLANTIC RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF FISHERIES & OCEANOGRAPHY, RUSSIA (ATLANTNIRO)
  • LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH, GERMANY (IOW)
  • Stockholm University
  • Estonian University of Life Sciences
  • FINNISH GAME AND FISHERIES RESEARCH INSTITUTE, FINLAND (FGFRI)
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Description

Hazardous substances have been identified as one major threat for the Baltic Sea ecosystem and its biota. The pan-Baltic BEAST project is targeted at developing integrated measures of chemical pollution and tools needed to detect and understand human-induced pressure on the Baltic Sea ecosystem.



Doris Schiedek (NERI/AM) is WP3 leader, and Jakob Strand (NERI/MAR) is task leader 5 for field stuides in the Belt Sea subregion in WP1.

project coordinator: Kari Lehtonen, SYKE.



A BONUS+ project, see also: http://www.bonusportal.org/bonus_projects
AcronymBEAST
StatusFinished
Effective start/end date01/01/200931/12/2011

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