The Baltic Sea scale inventory of benthic faunal communities

Mayya Gogina1*, Henrik Nygard2, Mats Blomqvist3, Darius Daunys4, Alf B. Josefson5, Jonne Kotta6, Alexey Maximov7, Jan Warzocha8, Vadim Yermakov9, Ulf Grawe1, and Michael L. Zettler1 Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW), Warnemunde, Seestr. 15, 18119 Rostock, Germany Marine Research Centre, Finnish Environment Institute SYKE, PO Box 140, FI-00251 Helsinki, Finland Hafok AB, 179 61 Stenhamra, Sweden Coastal Research and Planning Institute, Klaipeda University, H. Manto Str. 84, LT-92294 Klaipėda, Lithuania Department of Bioscience, Aarhus University, Frederiksborgvej 399, 4000 Roskilde, Denmark Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Maealuse 14, 12618 Tallinn, Estonia Zoological Institute Russian Academy of Science, Universitetskaja nab. 1, 199034 St Petersburg, Russia National Marine Fisheries Research Institute, ul. Kollątaja 1, 81-332 Gdynia, Poland Latvian Institute of Aquatic Ecology, Daugavgrivas Str. 8, LV-1048 Riga, Latvia *Corresponding author: tel: +49 381 5197 393; fax: +49 381 5197 211; e-mail: mayya.gogina@io-warnemuende.de