Fauna of Europe of the Baltic Sea has led to the evolution of many slightly divergent species, such as the Baltic Sea herring, which is a smaller variant of the Atlantic herring. The most frequent benthic species are "Saduria entomon" and "Monoporeia affinis", which is originally a freshwater species. A great part of its bottom is anoxic and without animal life. The Baltic Sea and North Sea are also home to a variety of marine mammals (common seals, grey seals). Europe contains several important freshwater ecoregions, including the heavily developed rivers of Europe, the rivers of Russia, which flow into the Arctic, Baltic,
Latitude of the Gulf Stream and the Gulf Stream north wall index Regier and Stommel model compared with observations over 40 years (The graphs are in standardised units). The latitude of the north wall has been linked via the atmospheric circulation with a variety of changes at the other side of the North Atlantic Ocean [17], [19], [20], and. The Continuous Plankton Recorder Survey, now run by the Sir Alister Hardy Foundation for Ocean Science in Plymouth, UK, has monitored the plankton in the surface waters of the North Sea and NE Atlantic for more than half a century. Over most of this time many of the zooplankton in these regions have