BEAM programme results are published at an increasing rate in peer-reviewed scientific journals, including in high-impact journals such as Science, Trends in Ecology and Evolution, Nature Geoscience and PNAS.

BEAM researchers are frequently asked to advise national and international government agencies on marine environmental quality, indicating that they are highly regarded within their fields.

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• Nutrient enrichment
• Laws and management
• Hazardous substances
• Ecosystem functioning
• Climate change

2015

• High cell-specific rates of nitrogen and carbon fixation by the cyanobacterium Aphanizomenon sp. at low temperatures in the Baltic Sea
• Induced production of brominated aromatic compounds in the alga Ceramium tenuicorne
• N2-fixation, ammonium release, and N-transfer within the plankton community in the Baltic Sea
• Simple approach for the preparation of 15-15N2-enriched water for nitrogen fixation assessments: Evaluation, application and recommendations
• Nitrogen fixation by cyanobacteria stimulates production in Baltic food-webs
• Aerobic and anaerobic nitrogen transformation processes in N2-fixing cyanobacterial aggregates
• An empirical model of the Baltic Sea reveals the importance of social dynamics for ecological regime shifts
• Adaptive governance, ecosystem management, and natural capital
• Adaptive governance of the Baltic Sea – lessons from elsewhere
• In-depth analysis of an alternate-stage Prymnesium polylepis (Haptophyta) bloom and long-term trends in abundance of Prymnesiales species in the Baltic Sea
• Seasonal and Regional Patterns in Performance for a Baltic Sea Drainage Basin Hydrologic Model
• Transnational Corporations as ‘Keystone Actors’ in Marine Ecosystems
• Robust remote sensing algorithms to derive the diffuse attenuation
  coefficient for lakes and coastal waters
• Detection of BMAA in the human central nervous system
• Masked, diluted and drowned out: how global seafood trade weakens signals from marine ecosystems
• Detection of BMAA in the human central nervous system
• Climate and fishing steer ecosystem regeneration to uncertain economic futures
• Past and future challenges in managing European seas
• Coping with persistent environmental problems: systemic delays in reducing
  eutrophication of the Baltic Sea
• The role of cooperation for improved stewardship of marine social-ecological systems in Latin America
• Dissecting the ecosystem service of large-scale pollutant retention: The role of wetlands and other landscape features

2014

• External total alkalinity loads versus internal generation: The influence of nonriverine alkalinity sources in the Baltic Sea
• Feeding Activity and Xenobiotics Modulate Oxidative Status in Daphnia magna: Implications for Ecotoxicological Testing
• Seasonal and Regional Patterns in Performance for a Baltic Sea Drainage Basin Hydrologic Model
• Disruption of Oxidative Phosphorylation (OXPHOS) by Hydroxylated Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers (OH-PBDEs) Present in the Marine Environment
• Satellite-based water quality monitoring for improved spatial and temporal retrieval of chlorophyll-a in coastal waters
• Baltic Sea nutrient reductions - What should we aim for?
• Classifying fishers’ behaviour. An invitation to fishing styles
• Synchronous marine pelagic regime shifts in the Northern Hemisphere
• Float or Sinker for Europe’s Seas? The role of law in marine governance, in Governing Europe’s Marine Environment - Europeanization of Regional Seas or Regionalization of EU Policies
• Meiofauna increases bacterial denitrification in marine sediments
• A chain of fools: or, why it is so hard to stop overfishing
• Using an Ecosystem Approach to complement protection schemes based on organism-level endpoints
• Growth, toxicity and oxidative stress of a cultured cyanobacterium (Dolichospermum sp.) under different CO2/pH and temperature conditions
• Nucleic Acid Content in Crustacean Zooplankton: Bridging Metabolic and Stoichiometric Predictions
• Shifts in food quality for herbivorous consumer growth: multiple
  golden means in the life history
• Evaluation of MERIS products from Baltic Sea coastal waters rich in CDOM
• A holistic view of marine regime shifts
• Recovery discrepancies of OH-PBDEs and polybromophenols in human plasma and cat serum versus herring and long-tailed duck plasma
• Zooming in on size distribution patterns underlying species coexistence in Baltic Sea phytoplankton
• Functional tradeoffs underpin salinity-driven divergence in microbial community composition
• Impact of saltwater inflows on phosphorus cycling and eutrophication in the Baltic Sea: a 3D model study
• The effects of short-term pH decrease on the reproductive output of the copepod Acartia bifilosa – a laboratory study
• Global networks and global change-induced tipping points
• Responses of Phyto- and Zooplankton Communities to Prymnesium polylepis (Prymnesiales) Bloom in the Baltic Sea
• Management Forcing Increased Specialization in a Fishery System
• Does fisheries management incentivize noncompliance? - Estimated misreporting in the Swedish Baltic Sea pelagic fishery based on commercial fishing effort
• Bloom-forming cyanobacteria support copepod reproduction and development in the Baltic Sea
• Multidecadal time series of satellite-detected accumulations of cyanobacteria in the Baltic Sea
• Nitrogen fixed by cyanobacteria is utilized by deposit-feeders
• Aerobic and anaerobic nitrogen transformation processes in N2-fixing cyanobacterial aggregates
• Radionuclide transfer in marine coastal ecosystems, a modelling study using metabolic processes and site data
• BMAA in shellfish from two Portuguese transitional water bodies suggests the marine dinoflagellate Gymnodinium catenatum as a potential BMAA source
• Picocyanobacteria containing a novel pigment gene cluster dominate the brackish water Baltic Sea
• Lipidsoluble Conjugates of Hydroxylated Polybrominated Diphenyl Ethers in Blue Mussels from the Baltic Sea
• Improving the multi-annual, high-resolution modelling of biogeochemical cycles in the Baltic Sea by using data assimilation
• Feeding of the Arctic ctenophore Mertensia ovum in the Baltic Sea: evidence of the use of microbial prey
• Legal Prerequisites for a Nutrient Trading Scheme to Control Eutrophication in the Baltic Sea
• Marine Regime Shifts Around the Globe: Theory, Drivers and Impacts
• Interactions among density, climate, and food web effects determine long-term life cycle dynamics of a key copepod
• Habitat Heterogeneity Determines Climate Impact on Zooplankton Community Structure and Dynamics
• Applying resilience thinking to production ecosystems
• Marine Regime Shifts: Drivers and Impacts on Ecosystems Services
• Societal, land cover and climatic controls on river nutrient flows into the Baltic Sea
• An algorithm based on SLP- fluctuations to identify major Baltic inflow events
• Does aquaculture add resilience to the global food system?
• A novel modeling tool with multi-stressor functionality for organic contaminant transport and fate in the Baltic Sea
• Adaptive Governance of the Baltic Sea – Lessons
  from Elsewhere
• Novel octabrominated phenolic diphenyl ether identified in blue mussels from the Swedish west coast
• Globalization, marine regime shifts and the Soviet Union
• Seasonal oxygen, nitrogen and phosphorus benthic cycling along an impacted Baltic Sea estuary: regulation and spatial patterns
• Diatoms: A Novel Source for the Neurotoxin BMAA in Aquatic Environments
• Eutrophication status of the North Sea, Skagerrak, Kattegat and the Baltic Sea in present and future climates: A model study
• Reanalyzing temperature and salinity on decadal time scales using the ensemble optimal interpolation data assimilation method and a 3D ocean circulation model of the Baltic Sea
• Carbon cycling in the Baltic Sea - The fate of allochthonous organic carbon and its impact on air-sea CO2 exchange

2013

• Implementing ecosystem-based fisheries management: from single-species to integrated ecosystem assessment and advice for Baltic Sea fish stocks
• Benthic boundary layer nutrient and oxygen biogeochemistry in a eutrophicated Baltic Sea estuary
• Data-driven regionalization of river discharges and emergent land cover-evapotranspiration relationships across Sweden
• Effect of reoxygenation and Marenzelleria spp. bioturbation on Baltic Sea sediment metabolism
• Future nutrient load scenarios for the Baltic Sea due to climate and lifestyle changes
• Iron and Manganese Reduction and Associated Phosphorus Release in Coastal Baltic Sea Sediment
• Aligning Key Concepts for Global Change Policy: Robustness, Resilience, and Sustainability
• Emergence of Global Adaptive Governance for Stewardship of Regional Marine Resources
• Global or European Only? International Law on Transparency in Environmental Matters for Members of the Public
• Institutional stability and change in the Baltic Sea: 30 years of issues, crises and solutions
• International fisheries regime effectiveness Activities and resources of key actors in the Southern Ocean
• Modeling Social-Ecological Scenarios in Marine Systems
• Social-ecological systems as complex adaptive systems: modeling and policy implications
• Bioaccumulation of tritiated water in phytoplankton and trophic transfer of organically bound tritium to the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis
• Brominated and chlorinated flame retardants in liver of Greenland shark (Somniosus microcephalus)
• Cyclic volatile methylsiloxanes in fish from the Baltic Sea
• Estimation of the Acid Dissociation Constant of Perfluoroalkyl Carboxylic Acids through an Experimental Investigation of their Water-to-Air Transport
• Evaluating the fate of six common pharmaceuticals using a reactive transport model: Insights from a stream tracer test
• Exposure to contaminants exacerbates oxidative stress in amphipod Monoporeia affinis subjected to fluctuating hypoxia
• Increasing Concentrations of Perfluoroalkyl Acids in Scandinavian Otters (Lutra lutra) between 1972 and 2011: A New Threat to the Otter Population?
• Lipid-soluble conjugates of hydroxylated polybrominated diphenyl ethers in blue mussels from the Baltic Sea
• Polybrominated diphenyl ethers (PBDEs) and hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD) in seven different marine bird species from Iceland
• Radionuclide Transport and Uptake in Coastal Aquatic Ecosystems: A Comparison of a 3D Dynamic Model and a Compartment Model
• Rapid respiratory responses of the deep-water sponge Geodia barretti exposed to suspended sediments
• Sensitive equilibrium sampling to study polychlorinated biphenyl disposition in Baltic Sea sediment
• Temporal trends of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins and dibenzofurans and dioxin-like polychlorinated biphenyls in mothers' milk from Sweden, 1972-2011
• An assessment of upper ocean carbon and nitrogen export fluxes on the boreal continental shelf: A 3-year study in the open Baltic Sea comparing sediment traps, 234Th proxy, nutrient, and oxygen budgets
• ANAEROBIC PROCESSES IN CYANOBACTERIAL AGGREGATES IN AERATED SURFACE WATERS
• Behavioral, Ecological and Genetic Differentiation in an Open Environment-A Study of a Mysid Population in the Baltic Sea
• Combined effects of global climate change and regional ecosystem drivers on an exploited marine food web
• Ecological Network Indicators of Ecosystem Status and Change in the Baltic Sea
• Ecosystem status and functioning: searching for rules of thumb using an intersite comparison of food-web models of Northeast Atlantic continental shelves
• Insights into the Physiology and Ecology of the Brackish-Water-Adapted Cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena CCY9414 Based on a Genome-Transcriptome Analysis
• Integrated trend assessment of ecosystem changes in the Limfjord (Denmark): Evidence of a recent regime shift?
• Modeling Social-Ecological Scenarios in Marine Systems
• Projected marine climate change: effects on copepod oxidative status and reproduction
• The influence of environmental conditions on early life stages of flounder (Platichthys flesus) in the central Baltic Sea
• Trade-Offs between Predation Risk and Growth Benefits in the Copepod Eurytemora affinis with Contrasting Pigmentation
• Reanalyzing temperature and salinity on decadal time scales using the ensemble optimal interpolation data assimilation method and a 3D ocean circulation model of the Baltic Sea
• Combined effects of global climate change and regional ecosystem drivers on an exploited marine food web

2012

• A centennial record of fluvial organic matter input from the discontinuous permafrost catchment of Lake Tornetrask
• Benthic fauna affects recruitment from sediments of the harmful cyano­bacterium Nodularia spumigena
• Does divergence of nutrient load measurements matter for successful mitigation of marine eutrophication?
• Evaluating regional variation of net anthropogenic nitrogen and phosphorus inputs (NANI/NAPI), major drivers, nutrient retention pattern and management implications in the multinational areas of Baltic Sea basin
• Meiofauna enhances organic matter mineralization in soft sediment ecosystems
• Net anthropogenic nitrogen inputs to watersheds and riverine N export to coastal waters: a brief overview
• Nutrient reduction and climate change cause a potential shift from pelagic to benthic pathways in a eutrophic marine ecosystem
• Political backing to save the Baltic sea
• Quantifying catchment-scale mixing and its effect on time-varying travel time distributions
• Reconstructing the Development of Baltic Sea Eutrophication 1850-2006
• Tracing inputs of terrestrial high molecular weight dissolved organic matter within the Baltic Sea ecosystem
• A Systems Approach Framework for the Transition to Sustainable Development: Potential Value Based on Coastal Experiments
• Confronting Feedbacks of Degraded Marine Ecosystems
• Contrasting effects of food quality and quantity on a marine top predator
• Five critical questions of scale for the coastal zone
• General Resilience to Cope with Extreme Events
• Managing organizational change in an international scientific network: a study of ICES reform processes
• Polycentric systems and interacting planetary boundaries: Emerging governance of climate change—ocean acidification—marine biodiversity
• Program on ecosystem change and society: an international research strategy for integrated social-ecological systems
• Research, industry and public sector cooperation: a dynamic perspective
• Sustainability of deep-sea fish species under the European Union Common Fisheries Policy
• A matrix effect-free method for reliable quantification of perfluoroalkyl carboxylic acids and perfluoroalkane sulfonic acids at low parts per trillion levels in dietary samples
• A novel abbreviation standard for organobromine, organochlorine and organophosphorus flame retardants and some characteristics of the chemicals
• A review of multiple stressor studies that include ionising radiation
• An invitation to contribute to a strategic research agenda in radioecology
• Bioaccumulation of tritiated water in phytoplankton and trophic transfer of organically bound tritium to the blue mussel, Mytilus edulis
• Bottom trawling resuspends sediment and releases bioavailable contaminants in a polluted fjord
• Comparison of organohalogen compounds in a white-tailed sea eagle egg laid in 1941 with five eggs from 1996 to 2001
• Dietary exposure to perfluoroalkyl acids for the Swedish population in 1999, 2005 and 2010
• Ecological stoichiometry and multi element transfer in a coastal ecosystem
• PCDD/F release during benthic trawler-induced sediment resuspension
• Polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, polychlorinated dibenzofurans and non-ortho-PCBs in eggs of white-tailed sea eagles collected along the Swedish coast in the Baltic Sea
• Degradation of terrestrial organic carbon, primary production and out-gassing of CO2 in the Laptev and East Siberian Seas as inferred from delta C-13 values of DIC
• Predator transitory spillover induces trophic cascades in ecological sinks
• Uncertainties in a Baltic Sea Food-Web Model Reveal Challenges for Future Projections
• Comparing reconstructed past variations and future projections of the Baltic sea ecosystem first results from multi model ensemble simulations
• Future changes in the Baltic Sea acid-base (pH) and oxygen balances
• Impact of Climate Change on Fish Population Dynamics in the Baltic Sea: A Dynamical Downscaling Investigation

2011

• Diversity of larger consumers enhances interference competition effects on smaller competitors
• Measurement and interpretation of solute concentration gradients in the benthic boundary layer
• Participatory Social-Ecological Modeling in Eutrophication Management: the Case of Himmerfjarden, Sweden
• Polychaete invader enhances resource utilization in a species-poor system
• Creation of a Gilded Trap by the High Economic Value of the Maine Lobster Fishery
• Diffuse hydrological mass transport through catchments: scenario analysis of coupled physical and biogeochemical uncertainty effects
• History and scenarios of future development of Baltic Sea eutrophication
• Incentives, social-ecological feedbacks and European fisheries
• Navigating a complex policy system: explaining local divergences in Swedish fish stocking policy
• Overview of eutrophication indicators to assess environmental status within the European Marine Strategy Framework Directive
• Responding to change: Using scenarios to understand how socioeconomic factors may influence amplifying or dampening exploitation feedbacks among Tanzanian fishers
• Seasonal variations of hydroxylated and methoxylated brominated diphenyl ethers in blue mussels from the Baltic Sea
• Beauty is in the eye of the beholder: management of Baltic cod stock requires an ecosystem approach
• Carbon, nitrogen and O(2) fluxes associated with the cyanobacterium Nodularia spumigena in the Baltic Sea

2010

• Higher diversity of deposit-feeding macrofauna enhances phytodetritus processing
• Nutrient loadings from land: identifying and resolving diverging interpretations of their development
• Building transformative capacity in social-ecological systems: insights and challenges
• Making the ecosystem approach operational-Can regime shifts in ecological- and governance systems facilitate the transition?