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Pollution of the North Sea

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The impact of pollution and other kinds of human interference on the marine environment may take either of two extreme forms, i.e., mass mortalities or a slow and gradual change in the size of populations. However, such mortalities or changes may also occur under the influence of natural events and the effects may be similar, causing a sudden, often conspicuous catastrophic mortality in part of the marine biota or resulting in a slow change in the abundance of a population. Such gradual changes may either be the result of an alteration in mortality rates, experienced in the subadult and adult part of a population or, more often, be due to changes in the reproductive success, affecting recruitment.

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  1. Institute for Soil Fertility, Delft Hydraulics Laboratory, P.O. Box 30003, 9750 RA, Haren (Gr), The Netherlands

    Wim Salomons

  2. Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Prospect Place, The Hoe, Plymouth, PL 13 DH, UK

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  3. Netherland Institute for Sea Research, P.O. Box 59, 1790 AB, Den Burg/Texel, The Netherlands

    Egbert Klaas Duursma

  4. Arbeitsbereich Umweltschutztechnik, Technische Universität Hamburg-Harburg, Eißendorfer Str. 40, 2100, Hamburg 90, Fed. Rep. of Germany

    Ulrich Förstner

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Zijlstra, J.J., de Wolf, P. (1993). Natural Events. In: Salomons, W., Bayne, B.L., Duursma, E.K., Förstner, U. (eds) Pollution of the North Sea. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-73709-1_10

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