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  1. Department of Biological Sciences, University of Rostock, Albert-Einstein-Straße 3, 18051, Rostock, Germany

    Hendrik Schubert

  2. Instituto de Biologia Marina, Campus Isla Teja, Universidad Austral de Chile, Valdivia, Chile

    Dirk Schories

  3. Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research, Seestraße 15, 18119, Rostock, Germany

    Bernd Schneider

  4. Forschungszentrum Jülich, Schweriner Straße 44, 18069, Rostock, Germany

    Uwe Selig

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  3. Paleoceanography Unit, University of Szczecin Faculty of Geosciences, Szczecin, Poland

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Schubert, H., Schories, D., Schneider, B., Selig, U. (2017). Brackish water as an environment. In: Snoeijs-Leijonmalm, P., Schubert, H., Radziejewska, T. (eds) Biological Oceanography of the Baltic Sea. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-0668-2_1

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