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  1. Ministry of the Environment, P.O. Box 35, 00023, Government, Finland

    Maria Laamanen

  2. Marine Research Centre, Finnish Environment Institute, P.O. Box 140, 00251, Helsinki, Finland

    Samuli Korpinen

  3. Swedish Institute for the Marine Environment, P.O. Box 260, 40530, Göteborg, Sweden

    Ulla Li Zweifel

  4. NIVA Denmark Water Research, Ørestads Boulevard 73, 2300, Copenhagen, Denmark

    Jesper H. Andersen

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Laamanen, M., Korpinen, S., Zweifel, U.L., Andersen, J.H. (2017). Ecosystem health. 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_17

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