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Caswell, B.A.; Klein, E.S.; Alleway, H.K.; Ball, J.E.; Botero, J.; Cardinale, M.; Eero, M.; Engelhard, G.H.; Fortibuoni, T.; Giraldo, A.-J.; Hentati-Sundberg, J.; Jones, P.; Kittinger, J.N.; Krause, G.; Lajus, D.L.; Lajus, J.; Lau, S.C.Y.; Lescrauwaet, A.-K.; MacKenzie, B.R.; McKenzie, M.; Ojaveer, H.; Pandolfi, J.M.; Raicevich, S.; Russell, B.D.; Sundelöf, A.; Thorpe, R.B.; zu Ermgassen, P.S.E.; Thurstan, R.H. (2020). Something old, something new: Historical perspectives provide lessons for blue growth agendas. Fish Fish. 21(4): 774-796. https://doi.org/10.1111/faf.12460
Stelzenmüller, V.; Coll, M.; Cormier, R.; Mazaris, A.D.; Pascual, M.; Loiseau, C.; Claudet, J.; Katsanevakis, S.; Gissi, E.; Evagelopoulos, A.; Rumes, B.; Degraer, S.; Ojaveer, H.; Möller, T.; Giménez, J.; Piroddi, C.; Markantonatou, V.; Dimitriadis, C. (2020). Operationalizing risk-based cumulative effect assessments in the marine environment. Sci. Total Environ. 724: 138118. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2020.138118
Tsiamis, K.; Azzurro, E.; Bariche, M.; Çinar, M.E.; Crocetta, F.; De Clerck, O.; Galil, B.; Gómez, F.; Hoffman, R.; Jensen, K.R.; Kamburska, L.; Langeneck, J.; Langer, M.R.; Levitt-Barmats, Y.; Lezzi, M.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A.; Ojaveer, H.; Piraino, S.; Shenkar, N.; Yankova, M.; Zenetos, A.; Zuljevíc, A.; Cardoso, A.C. (2020). Prioritizing marine invasive alien species in the European Union through horizon scanning. Aquat. Conserv. 30(4): 794-845. https://hdl.handle.net/10.1002/aqc.3267
Evans, K.; Chiba, S.; Bebianno, M.J.; Garcia-Soto, C.; Ojaveer, H.; Park, C.; Ruwa, R.; Simcock, A.J.; Vu, C.T.; Zielinski, T. (2019). The Global Integrated World Ocean Assessment: Linking observations to science and policy across multiple scales. Front. Mar. Sci. 6: 1-8. https://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fmars.2019.00298
Tsiamis, K.; Palialexis, A.; Stefanova, K.; Gladan, Z.N.; Skejic, S.; Despalatovic, M.; Cvitkovic, I.; Dragicevic, B.; Dulcic, J.; Vidjak, O.; Bojanic, N.; Zuljevic, A.; Aplikioti, M.; Argyrou, M.; Josephides, M.; Michailidis, N.; Jakobsen, H.H.; Staehr, P.A.; Ojaveer, H.; Lehtiniemi, M.; Massé, C.; Zenetos, A.; Castriota, L.; Livi, S.; Mazziotti, C.; Schembri, P.J.; Evans, J.; Bartolo, A.G.; Kabuta, S.H.; Smolders, S.; Knegtering, E.; Gittenberger, A.; Gruszka, P.; Krasniewski, W.; Bartilotti, C.; Tuaty-Guerra, M.; Canning-Clode, J.; Costa, A.C.; Parente, M.I.; Botelho, A.Z.; Micael, J.; Miodonski, J.V.; Carreira, G.P.; Lopes, V.; Chainho, P.; Barberá, C.; Naddafi, R.; Florin, A.-B.; Barry, P.; Stebbing, P.D.; Cardoso, A.C. (2019). Non-indigenous species refined national baseline inventories: a synthesis in the context of the European Union's Marine Strategy Framework Directive. Mar. Pollut. Bull. 145: 429-435. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpolbul.2019.06.012
Cardeccia, A.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A.; Galil, B.; Gollasch, S.; Minchin, D.; Narscius, A.; Olenin, S.; Ojaveer, H. (2018). Assessing biological invasions in European seas: Biological traits of the most widespread non-indigenous species. Est., Coast. and Shelf Sci. 201: 17-28. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2016.02.014
Ojaveer, H.; Galil, B.S.; Carlton, J.T.; Alleway, H.K.; Goulletquer, P.; Lehtiniemi, M.; Marchini, A.; Miller, W.; Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A.; Peharda, M.; Ruiz, G.M.; Williams, S.L.; Zaiko, A. (2018). Historical baselines in marine bioinvasions: implications for policy and management. PLoS One 13(8): e0202383. https://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0202383
Bekkevold, D.; Gross, R.; Arula, T.; Helyar, S.J.; Ojaveer, H. (2016). Outlier loci detect intraspecific biodiversity amongst spring and autumn spawning herring across local scales. PLoS One 11(4): e0148499. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0148499
Kotta, J.; Nurkse, K.; Puntila, R.; Ojaveer, H. (2016). Shipping and natural environmental conditions determine the distribution of the invasive non-indigenous round goby Neogobius melanostomus in a regional sea. Est., Coast. and Shelf Sci. 169: 15-24. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2015.11.029
Lucy, F.E.; Roy, H.; Simpson, A.; Carlton, J.T.; Hanson, J.M.; Magellan, K.; Campbell, M.L.; Costello, M.J.; Pagad, S.; Hewitt, C.L.; McDonald, J.; Cassey, P.; Thomaz, S.; Katsanevakis, S.; Zenetos, A.; Tricarico, E.; Boggero, A.; Groom, Q.; Adriaens, T.; Vanderhoeven, S.; Torchin, M.; Hufbauer, R.; Fuller, P.; Carman, M.R.; Conn, D.B.; Vitule, J.R.S.; Canning-Clode, J.; Galil, B.S.; Ojaveer, H.; Bailey, S.A.; Therriault, T.W.; Claudi, R.; Gazda, A.; Dick, J.T.A.; Caffrey, J.; Witt, A.; Kenis, M.; Lehtiniemi, M.; Helmisaari, H.; Panov, V.E. (2016). INVASIVESNET towards an International Association for Open Knowledge on Invasive Alien Species. Manag. Biol. Inv. 7(2): 131-139. https://dx.doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2016.7.2.01
Kleisner, K.M.; Coll, M.; Lynam, C.P.; Bundy, A.; Shannon, L.; Shin, Y.-J.; Boldt, J.L.; Borges, M.F.; Diallo, I.; Fox, C.; Gascuel, D.; Heymans, J.J.; Juan Jordá, M.J.; Jouffre, D.; Large, S.I.; Marshall, K.N.; Ojaveer, H.; Piroddi, C.; Tam, J.; Torres, M.A.; Travers-Trolet, M.; Tsagarakis, K.; Van der Meeren, G.I.; Zador, S. (2015). Evaluating changes in marine communities that provide ecosystem services through comparative assessments of community indicators. Ecosystem Services 16: 413-429. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecoser.2015.02.002
Lehtiniemi, M.; Ojaveer, H.; David, M.; Galil, B.; Gollasch, S.; McKenzie, C.; Minchin, D.; Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A.; Olenin, S.; Pederson, J. (2015). Dose of truth—Monitoring marine non-indigenous species to serve legislative requirements. Mar. Policy 54: 26-35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2014.12.015
Ojaveer, H.; Galil, B.S.; Campbell, M.L.; Carlton, J.T.; Canning-Clode, J.; Cook, E.J.; Davidson, A.D.; Hewitt, C.L.; Jelmert, J.; Marchini, A.; McKenzie, C.H.; Minchin, D.; Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A.; Olenin, S.; Ruiz, G. (2015). Classification of non-indigenous species based on their impacts: considerations for application in marine management. PLoS Biology 13(4): e1002130. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pbio.1002130
Ojaveer, H.; Galil, B.S.; Lehtiniemi, M.; Christoffersen, M.; Clink, S.; Florin, A.-B.; Gruszka, P.; Puntila, R.; Behrens, J.W. (2015). Twenty five years of invasion: management of the round goby Neogobius melanostomus in the Baltic Sea. Manag. Biol. Inv. 6(4): 329-339. https://dx.doi.org/10.3391/mbi.2015.6.4.02
Olenin, S.; Narscius, A.; Minchin, D.; David, M.; Galil, B.; Gollasch, S.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A.; Ojaveer, H.; Zaiko, A. (2014). Making non-indigenous species information systems practical for management and useful for research: an aquatic perspective. Biol. Conserv. 173: 98-107. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.biocon.2013.07.040
Schwerdtner Máñez, K; Holm, P.; Blight, L.; Coll, M.; MacDiarmid, A.; Ojaveer, H.; Poulsen, B.; Tull, M. (2014). The Future of the Oceans Past: Towards a Global Marine Historical Research Initiative. PLoS One 9(7): 10
Narayanaswamy, B.E.; Coll, M.; Danovaro, R.; Davidson, K.; Ojaveer, H.; Renaud, P.E. (2013). Synthesis of knowledge on marine biodiversity in European seas: from census to sustainable management. PLoS One 8(3): e58909. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0058909
Ellis, S.L.; Incze, L.S.; Lawton, P.; Ojaveer, H.; MacKenzie, B.R.; Pitcher, C.R.; Shirley, T.C.; Eero, M.; Tunnell, J.W.; Doherty, P.J.; Zeller, B.M. (2011). Four regional marine biodiversity studies: approaches and contributions to ecosystem-based management. PLoS One 6(4): e18997. dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0018997
Ojaveer, H.; Jaanus, A.; MacKenzie, B.R.; Martin, G.; Olenin, S.; Radziejewska, T.; Telesh, I.; Zettler, M.L.; Zaiko, A. (2010). Status of biodiversity in the Baltic Sea. PLoS One 5(9): e12467. http://dx.doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0012467
Shin, Y.-J.; Shannon, L.J.; Bundy, A.; Coll, M.; Aydin, K.Y.; Bez, N.; Blanchard, J.L.; de Fátima Borges, M.; Diallo, I.; Diaz, E.; Heymans, J.J.; Hill, L.; Johannesen, E.; Jouffre, D.; Kifani, S.; Labrosse, P.; Link, J.S.; Mackinson, S.; Masski, H.; Möllmann, C.; Neira, S.; Ojaveer, H.; ould Mohammed Abdallahi, K.; Perry, I.; Thiao, D.; Yemane, D.; Cury, P.M. (2010). Using indicators for evaluating, comparing, and communicating the ecological status of exploited marine ecosystems. 2. Setting the scene. ICES J. Mar. Sci./J. Cons. int. Explor. Mer 67(4): 692-716. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsp294
Shin, Y.-J.; Bundy, A.; Shannon, L.J.; Simier, M.; Coll, M.; Fulton, E.A.; Link, J.S.; Jouffre, D.; Ojaveer, H.; Mackinson, S.; Heymans, J.J.; Raid, T. (2010). Can simple be useful and reliable? Using ecological indicators to represent and compare the states of marine ecosystems. ICES J. Mar. Sci./J. Cons. int. Explor. Mer 67(4): 717-731. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsp287
Coll, M.; Shannon, L.J.; Yemane, D.; Link, J.S.; Ojaveer, H.; Neira, S.; Jouffre, D.; Labrosse, P.; Heymans, J.J.; Fulton, E.A.; Shin, Y.-J. (2009). Ranking the ecological relative status of exploited marine ecosystems. ICES J. Mar. Sci./J. Cons. int. Explor. Mer 67(4): 769-786. https://dx.doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsp261
Hiddink, J.G.; MacKenzie, B.R.; Rijnsdorp, A.D.; Dulvy, N.K.; Nielsen, E.; Bekkevold, D.; Heino, M.; Lorance, P.; Ojaveer, H. (2008). Importance of fish biodiversity for the management of fisheries and ecosystems. Fish. Res. 90(6-8), more
Gaumiga, R.; Karlsons, G.; Uzars, D.; Ojaveer, H. (2007). Gulf of Riga (Baltic Sea) fisheries in the late 17th century. Fish. Res. 87(2-3): 120-125. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2007.04.003
Lajus, J.; Ojaveer, H.; Tammiksaar, E. (2007). Fisheries at the Estonian Baltic Sea coast in the first half of the 19th century: What can be learned from the archives of Karl Ernst Baer? Fish. Res. 87(2-3): 126-136. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2007.07.004
MacKenzie, B.R.; Bager, M.; Ojaveer, H.; Awebro, K.; Heino, U.; Holm, P.; Must, A. (2007). Multi-decadal scale variability in the eastern Baltic cod fishery 1550-1860: evidence and causes. Fish. Res. 87(2-3): 106-119. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2007.07.003, more
Ojaveer, H.; Awebro, K.; Karlsdóttir, H.M.; MacKenzie, B.R. (2007). Swedish Baltic Sea fisheries during 1868-1913: spatio-temporal dynamics of catch and fishing effort. Fish. Res. 87(2-3): 137-145. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2007.07.010, more
Ojaveer, H.; Gollasch, S.; Jaanus, A.; Kotta, J.; Laine, A.O.; Minde, A.; Normant, M.; Panov, V.E. (2007). Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis in the Baltic Sea - a supply-side invader? Biological Invasions 9(4): 409-418. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10530-006-9047-z, more
Ojaveer, H.; MacKenzie, B.R. (2007). Historical development of fisheries in northern Europe - Reconstructing chronology of interactions between nature and man. Fish. Res. 87(2-3): 102-105. https://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2007.08.011
Ojaveer, H.; MacKenzie, B.R. (Ed.) (2007). History of marine animal populations and their exploitation in northern Europe. Fisheries Research, 87(2-3). Elsevier: Amsterdam. 100-261 pp.
Kotta, J.; Kotta, I.; Simm, M.; Lankov, A.; Lauringson, V.; Põllumäe, A.; Ojaveer, H. (2006). Ecological consequences of biological invasions: three invertebrate case studies in the north-eastern Baltic Sea. Helgol. Mar. Res. 60(2): 106-112, more
Ojaveer, H. (2006). The round goby Neogobius melanostomus is colonising the NE Baltic Sea. Aquat. Invasions 1(1): 44-45
Kaiser, M.J.; Austen, M.C.V.; Ojaveer, H. (2004). European biodiversity action plan for fisheries: issues for non-target species. Fish. Res. 69(1): 1-6. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.fishres.2004.05.001, more
Leppäkoski, E.; Gollasch, S.; Gruszka, P.; Ojaveer, H.; Olenin, S.; Panov, V. (2002). The Baltic: a sea of invaders. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 59(7): 1175-1188
Vanderploeg, H.A.; Nalepa, T.F.; Jude, D.J.; Mills, E.L.; Holeck, K.T.; Liebig, J.R.; Grigorovich, I.A.; Ojaveer, H. (2002). Dispersal and emerging ecological impacts of Ponto-Caspian species in the Laurentian Great Lakes. Can. J. Fish. Aquat. Sci. 59(7): 120-1228
Ojaveer, H.; Lankov, A.; Eero, M.; Kotta, J.; Kotta, I.; Lumberg, A. (1999). Changes in the ecosystem of the Gulf of Riga from the 1970s to the 1990s. ICES J. Mar. Sci./J. Cons. int. Explor. Mer 56(Suppl.): 33-40
Ojaveer, E.; Lumberg, A.; Ojaveer, H. (1998). Highlights of zooplankton dynamics in Estonian waters (Baltic Sea). ICES J. Mar. Sci./J. Cons. int. Explor. Mer 55(4): 748-755
Wasmund, N.; Nausch, G.; Postel, L.; Witek, Z.; Zalewski, M.; Gromisz, S.; Lysiak-Pastuszak, E.; Olenina, I.; Kavolyte, R.; Jasinskaite, A.; Müller-Karulis, B.; Ikauniece, A.; Andrushaitis, A.; Ojaveer, H.; Kallaste, K.; Jaanus, A. (2000). Trophic status of coastal and open areas of the south-eastern Baltic Seas based on nutrient phytoplankton data 1993-1997. Meereswiss. Ber. 38: 3-83
Saat, T.; Ojaveer, H. (Ed.) (2005). Fishes and fisheries of the Gulf of Riga. University of Tartu; Estonian Marine Institute: Tallinn. ISBN 9985-4-0455-6.
Weslawski, J.M.; Ojaveer, H.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Appeltans, W.; van Avesaath, P.H.; Hummel, H.; Heip, C.H.R.; Mees, J. (2003). Electronic conference on ‘Newly Associated States and Marine Biodiversity Research’: summary of discussions, 2 - 12 June 2003. MARBENA Proceedings, 4. Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ): Oostende. V, 63 pp., more
Webb, T.J.; Juan Jordá, M.J.; Motomura, H.; Navarrete-Mier, F.; Ojaveer, H.; Oxenford, H.; Park, C.; Roberts, C.; Santos, M.D.; Sutton, T.; Thorndyke, M. (2021). Fishes, in: The Second World Ocean Assessment, Volume 1. pp. 161-175
Miloslavich, P.; Archambault, P.; Bax, N.J.; Vanden Berghe, E.; Boustany, A.; Brandt, A.; Butler, A.J.; Clarke, M.; Collette, B.B.; Dulvy, N.K.; Edwards, M.; Escobar-Briones, E.; Fujikura, K.; Gobin, J.; Graves, J.E.; Griffiths, C.L.; Griffiths, H.J.; Halpin, P.N.; Hopcroft, R.R.; Kaschner, K.; Lascelles, B.; Li, X.; Morato, T.; Moretzsohn, F.; Nakaoka, M.; Obura, D.; Ojaveer, H.; Pepin, P.; Raghunathan, C.; Reeves, R.R.; Rice, J.; Sato, M.; Schillinger, G.; Simpfendorfer, C.A.; Tunnell Jr., J.W.; Tunnicliffe, V.; Snelgrove, P.; Stocks, K.; Tarzia, M.; Venkataraman, K.; Wallace, B.; Wanless, R.M.; Webb, T.; Yamano, H. (2017). Extent of assessment of marine biological diversity, in: The Group of Experts of the Regular Process (Ed.) The First Global Integrated Marine Assessment: World Ocean Assessment I. pp. 525-554
Ojaveer, H.; Gollasch, S.; Jaanus, A. (2006). Chinese mitten crab Eriocheir sinensis in the north-eastern Baltic Sea, in: Ojaveer, H. et al. (Ed.) Alien invasive species in the north-eastern Baltic Sea: population dynamics and ecological impacts. Estonian Marine Institute Report Series, 14: pp. 18-22, more
Simm, M.; Lankov, A.; Põllupüü, M.; Ojaveer, H. (2006). Estimation of consumption rates of the predatory cladoceran Cercopagis pengoi in laboratory conditions, in: Ojaveer, H. et al.Alien invasive species in the north-eastern Baltic Sea: population dynamics and ecological impacts. Estonian Marine Institute Report Series, 14: pp. 42-47, more
Ojaveer, H. (2004). Introduction to Topic 2a: Fisheries. Management of fish resources - the Baltic Sea, in: Heip, C.H.R. et al.Electronic conference on 'Marine biodiversity research that matters!': summary of discussions, 15 to 26 November 2004. pp. 7-8
Ojaveer, H. (2004). Summary of discussions on Topic 2a: Fisheries. Management of fish resources - the Baltic Sea, in: Heip, C.H.R. et al.Electronic conference on 'Marine biodiversity research that matters!': summary of discussions, 15 to 26 November 2004. pp. 21-22
Marcin, J.; Ojaveer, H. (2003). Executive summary: Newly Associated States and marine biodiversity research, in: Weslawski, J.M. et al.Electronic conference on ‘Newly Associated States and Marine Biodiversity Research’: summary of discussions, 2 - 12 June 2003. MARBENA Proceedings, 4: pp. 9-11
Telesh, I.V.; Ojaveer, H. (2002). The predatory water flea Cercopagis pengoi in the Baltic sea: invasion history, distribution and implications to ecosystem dynamics, in: Leppäkoski, E. et al. (Ed.) Invasive aquatic species of Europe: distribution, impacts and management. pp. 62-65
Olenin, S.; Narscius, A.; Minchin, D.; Galil, B.; Gollasch, S.; Marchini, A.; Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A.; Ojaveer, H.; Zaiko, A. (2013). AquaNIS: a new generation information system on aquatic non-indigenous and cryptogenic species, in: Robbens, J. et al. (Ed.) Non-indigenous species in the North-East Atlantic. Ostend, 20-22 November 2013: Book of abstracts. VLIZ Special Publication, 66: pp. 48-49
Narayanaswamy, B.E.; Ojaveer, H.; Boxshall, G.; Appeltans, W.; Danovaro, R.; Holm, P.; Nickelson, T. (2010). Diversity of European seas: Finding new life. EuroCoML Non-Technical Report. The European Census of Marine Life: Oban. 55 pp.
Olenin, S.; Alemany, F.; Cardoso, A.C.; Gollasch, S.; Goulletquer, P.; Lehtiniemi, M.; McCollin, T.; Minchin, D.; Miossec, L.; Occhipinti-Ambrogi, A.; Ojaveer, H.; Jensen, K.R.; Stankiewicz, M.; Wallentinus, I.; Aleksandrov, B. (2010). Marine Strategy Framework Directive Task Group 2 Report: Non-indigenous species. JRC Scientific and Technical Reports. Office for Official Publications of the European Communities: Luxembourg. ISBN 978-92-79-15655-7. 44 pp.
Ojaveer, H.; Kotta, J. (Ed.) (2006). Alien invasive species in the north-eastern Baltic Sea: population dynamics and ecological impacts. Estonian Marine Institute Report Series, 14. Estonian Marine Institute: Tallinn. ISBN 9985-4-0472-6. 64 pp., more
Ojaveer, H.; Simm, M.; Lankov, A.; Lumberg, A. (2000). Consequences of invasion of a predatory cladoceran. CM Documents - ICES, C.M. 2000(U:16). International Council for the Exploration of the Sea: Copenhagen. 12 + tables + figures pp.
Kotta, J.; Ojaveer, H. (2012). Rapid establishment of the alien crab Rhithropanopeus harrisii (Gould) in the Gulf of Riga. Estonian Journal of Ecology 61(4): 293-298. https://dx.doi.org/10.3176/eco.2012.4.04
Ojaveer, H.; Schiedek, D. (2002). Temperature and salinity: two essential structuring factors of biodiversity in the Baltic Sea. BIOMARE Newsletter 3: 13
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