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When asked to make some concluding comments about this symposium, I did not hesitate long, because I have had the privilege of following more or less closely the development of the various Pelag projects during the years. In fact, I have seen the Pelag in its germ line phase, when I was still working myself at Tvärminne Zoological Station in the early 1980s. We then constructed the first-ever carbon budget for the pelagic and benthic system off Tvärminne, which was submitted to the ICES ecosystem symposium in Kiel in 1982. The pelagic system structure of our carbon flow model was admittedly crude compared with the present knowledge, but, nevertheless, the paper was accepted as a lecture, and we got it published (Kuparinen et al., 1984). Many things have changed since those days, but I have been happy to notice that the good humour and untiring scientific curiosity of the group have persisted through the years.
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Sarvala, J. (1998). Closing address: perspectives on basic and applied, freshwater and marine pelagic research. In: Tamminen, T., Kuosa, H. (eds) Eutrophication in Planktonic Ecosystems: Food Web Dynamics and Elemental Cycling. Developments in Hydrobiology, vol 127. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-1493-8_29
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