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The northern Baltic Sea phytoplankton communities in 1903–1911 and 1993–2005: a comparison of historical and modern species data

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The authors wish to thank Ari Seinä, Pekka Alenius and Jari Haapala of the Finnish Meteorological Institute for advice on sea ice, temperature and salinity data; Jari Oksanen of the University of Oulu for help on R vegan functions; Leena Parkkonen and her colleagues at the library of the Finnish Environment Institute for helping track down historical information; and three anonymous reviewers for their valuable comments on our manuscript. This work has been partly funded by the Walter and Andrée de Nottbeck Foundation, the Finnish Swedish Cultural Foundation and the European Community actions 07.0201/2005/414002/SUB/D2 (HELCOM QUALITY) and 07.0201/2006/444167/SUB/D2 (HELCOM HARMONY).

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Hällfors, H., Backer, H., Leppänen, JM. et al. The northern Baltic Sea phytoplankton communities in 1903–1911 and 1993–2005: a comparison of historical and modern species data. Hydrobiologia 707, 109–133 (2013). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10750-012-1414-4

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