Acronym BALTHEALTH
Category
Fisheries
Title Baltic Sea multilevel health impacts on key species of anthropogenic hazardous substances Programme BONUS
Instrument (FP6)
Contact Type (FP7)
Strand (Interreg)
NA
Theme (FP7)
Activity Area (FP6)
Regional Area (Interreg)
Action (COST)
NA
Specific Programme (FP7)
NA
Funding source National-European Coordinator Dietz Rune Coordinator email rdi@dmu.dk
Coordinator institution
AU - Aarhus University (Denmark)
Institutions involved
NA - Carleton University (Canada) ,
UBA - Federal Environment Agency (Germany) ,
NA - Maritimas AB (Sweden) ,
LUKE - Natural Resources Institute (Finland) ,
NINA - Norwegian Institute for Nature Research (Norway) ,
NA - Stockholm University (Sweden) ,
NA - Swedish Museum of Natural History (Sweden) ,
NA - Tufts University (United States of America) ,
UMU - UMEA University (Sweden) ,
UA - University of Antwerp (Belgium) ,
UCONN - University of Connecticut (United States of America) ,
KU - University of Copenhagen (Denmark) ,
UGOT - University of Gothenburg (Sweden) ,
UTU - University of Turku (Finland) ,
TiHo - University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover (Germany) ,
Start year 2017 End year 2020 Funding (€) € 2,779,181 Website https://www.era-learn.eu/network-information/networks/bonus-169/bonus-call-2015-blue-baltic/baltic-sea-multilevel-health-impacts-on-key-species-of-anthropogenic-hazardous-substances Summary The Baltic serves as a unique model ecosystem in which top predators can provide early warnings for ecosystem health. Over the last century the Baltic food web has been severely impacted by hazardous substances, hunting, fisheries and eutrophication. The main focus of the proposed project BaltHealth is therefore to investigate spatial and temporal trends in multilevel food web impacts of chemical substances, climate change, zoonotic diseases, and their interactions. The consortium, representing four BONUS countries, provides a unique synergism of extensive ecological, toxicological and veterinary expertise. The consortium has access to state of the art facilities and techniques, as well as decades of acquired samples and data, which will be used to develop novel indicators of animal health and good ecological status. Once having defined food web interactions between key ecological and commercial species, separate work packages will investigate food web dynamics of energy and hazardous substances, linkages to pathological, immune and endocrine effect biomarkers, as well as important infectious and zoonotic diseases. All data will feed into an integrated model of health effects of multiple stressors on the Baltic food web. The BaltHealth outcome will furthermore provide novel knowledge for risk assessment by Baltic stakeholders, including HELCOM, ICES, OSPAR and ASCOBANS, and will have large impact through education, public media and the participating national history museums.
Keywords
Indicators;
Impacts;
Climate change;
Disease;
Fish health;
Food web;
Marine Region
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Southern Central Baltic-East (27.IIId.26)
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Sound, Belt Sea or Transition Area (27.IIIb,c)
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Southern Central Baltic-West (27.IIId.25)
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Baltic West of Bornholm (27.IIId.24)
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Gulf of Finland (27.IIId.32)
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East of Gotland or Gulf of Riga (27.IIId.28)
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West of Gotland (27.IIId.27)
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Bothnian Sea (27.IIId.30)
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Archipelago Sea (27.IIId. 29)
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Marine Region Map
