Coastal zones of the southern Baltic Sea - Sinks or sources of organic carbon for the Arkona Basin?

摘要

The coastal zones of the southern Baltic Sea have a highly diverse nutrient load due to their special morphology and hydrodynamics (Schiewer et al. 1999). To understand the importance of energy and nutrient cycles of the Baltic Sea ecosystem, small-scale characterisations of these environments are necessary with respect to specific biological and physicochem-ical properties. The emphasis of this study, carried out in the frame of the BASYS (Baltic Sea System Study) project, was to compare two Baltic coastal areas as sinks or sources of organic carbon in view of the final deposition into the deeper Baltic Sea (Arkona Basin).