scholarly journals Habitat modelling limitations – Puck Bay, Baltic Sea – a case study**This study represents a contribution to the project ‘Advanced Modelling Tool for Scenarios of the Baltic Sea Ecosystem to Support Decision Making (ECOSUPPORT)’, which has received funding from the EC’s Seventh Framework Programme (FP/2007–2013, Grant 217246) in conjunction with BONUS, the joint Baltic Sea research and development programme, supported by the Polish Ministry of Science and Higher Education (Grant 06/BONUS/2009). It also contributes to the Habitat Mapping project (‘Ecosystem approach to marine spatial planning – Polish Marine Areas and the Natura 2000 network’, PL 0078), supported by a grant from Iceland, Liechtenstein and Norway through the EEA Financial Mechanism.

Oceanologia ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 167-183 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jan Marcin Węsławski ◽  
Lucyna Kryla-Straszewska ◽  
Joanna Piwowarczyk ◽  
Jacek Urbański ◽  
Jan Warzocha ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
Seventh Framework Programme ◽  
Marine Areas ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
Support Decision Making ◽  
Puck Bay

scholarly journals Appropriate Scale and Level in Marine Spatial Planning – Management Perspectives in the Baltic Sea

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Aron Westholm
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Spatial Planning ◽  
Environmental Governance ◽  
Ecosystem Approach ◽  
Marine Spatial Planning ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Transboundary Cooperation ◽  
Maritime Spatial Planning ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Eu

The ecosystem approach has become a common tool in environmental governance over the last decade. Within the EU context this is most clearly accentuated through the adoption of the Marine Strategy Framework Directive and the Directive on Maritime Spatial Planning, that both include requirements for member states to apply the approach. This paper examines how the EU countries in the Baltic Sea Regionhave organised their marine spatial planning (MSP) in terms management levels and geographic delimitations. The examination shows that there is no consistent interpretation of what the appropriate level of management, or ecosystem scale, is. These findings are used to inform a discussion on how the ecosystem approach has been applied in the countries around the Baltic Sea, and how this may affect thepotential of transboundary cooperation initiatives.

scholarly journals Model of Nutrient and Pesticide Outflow with Surface Water to Puck Bay (Southern Baltic Sea)

Water ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 12 (3) ◽  
pp. 809 ◽  
Author(s):  
Dominika Kalinowska ◽  
Paweł Wielgat ◽  
Tomasz Kolerski ◽  
Piotr Zima
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Swat Model ◽  
Agricultural Practices ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Quality Of Water ◽  
The Baltic ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Puck Bay

Coastal basins are particularly exposed to the adverse impact of anthropogenic stress. In many places, despite only the seasonal increase in the number of residents, progressive urbanization and associated changes in the catchment characteristics are noticeable. Puck Bay is part of the Gulf of Gdansk and belongs to the Baltic Sea. Although the area of Puck Bay is covered by the Natura 2000 Network, this has not saved it from eutrophication problems. As part of the work on a complex coastal basin analysis (WaterPUCK project), the Soil and Water Assessment Tool (SWAT) model was used to determine the agricultural impact on water quality in rivers with a flow into Puck Bay: Reda, Gizdepka, Płutnica, and Błądzikowski Stream. The results include the loads of nutrients and pesticides that flow out from the agricultural areas of Puck community into Puck Bay. In this article, special attention has been paid to the impact of precipitation on the quality of water at the outflow of rivers into the Bay of Puck, because it is a decisive element in the amount of nutrients leached along with surface runoff to watercourses and then into the Gulf. The distribution of precipitation thus affects the amount of nutrients absorbed by plants. Modeling the effects of agricultural practices, taking into account long-term meteorological forecasts, is helpful in attempts to reduce the amount of pollutants entering the Baltic Sea.

Lack of ciliate community integrity in transitional waters: A case study from the Baltic Sea

2019 ◽  
Vol 226 ◽  
pp. 106259 ◽  
Author(s):  
Evelina Grinienė ◽  
Jūratė Lesutienė ◽  
Elena Gorokhova ◽  
Petras Zemlys ◽  
Zita R. Gasiūnaitė
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Transitional Waters ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Ciliate Community ◽  
The Baltic

scholarly journals SPREADING OF BRINE DISCHARGED INTO THE PUCK BAY (SOUTH BALTIC SEA): THEORETICAL STUDY VERSUS FIELD OBSERVATIONS

2012 ◽  
Vol 1 (33) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Malgorzata Robakiewicz
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
Natura 2000 ◽  
Regional Administration ◽  
The North ◽  
North Eastern ◽  
Shallow Water Body ◽  
Wind Driven Currents ◽  
Oil Company ◽  
North Eastern Part ◽  
Puck Bay

Increasing demands for gas storage capacity encouraged Polish Gas and Oil Company (PGNiG) to make use of salt deposits located in the north-eastern part of Poland, in the area bordering on the Gulf of Gdańsk (South Baltic Sea), and create underground gas stores. A complex of 10 chambers (250x106 m3) was designed to be built at a depth of 800-1600 m. The construction site is located about 4 km away from the sea coast. The drilling of boreholes and diluting of salt rock was proposed as a method of creating the chambers. Owing to ecological reasons, maximum discharge of brine is limited to 300 m3/h with the max. saturation of 250 kg/m3. The Puck Bay is a shallow water body with wind-driven currents and negligible tides. The main difficulty of the investment lay in the effective spreading of brine in the Puck Bay in accordance with all requirements that apply to regions protected by NATURA 2000. The most important restriction was the permitted excess salinity, defined as 0.5 PSU over the natural salinity in the Puck Bay. The location of brine discharge, number and diameters of nozzles, as well as consequences of brine discharge on the Puck Bay water, had been analyzed before the permission to install the system of diffusers was granted by the regional administration. The installation consists of a system of 16 heads spaced every 45 m, each of them equipped with 3 nozzles of 8 mm diameter.

Important Marine Areas for Wintering Birds in the Baltic Sea

1996 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 157 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Durinck ◽  
H. Skov ◽  
E. P. Jensen ◽  
S. Pihl
Keyword(s):  
Baltic Sea ◽  
The Baltic Sea ◽  
Wintering Birds ◽  
Marine Areas ◽  
The Baltic
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