Report of the Study Group for the Development of Integrated Monitoring and Assessment of Ecosystem Health in the Baltic Sea (SGEH)

ICES Study Group for the Development of Integrated Monitoring and Assessment of Ecosystem Health in the Baltic Sea (SGEH) met at the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research (IOW) in Warnemünde, Germany on 2–5 March 2009. The "new" SGEH was established to follow the main lines of the "old" SGEH, estab-lished in 2003 in support of the Baltic Sea Regional Programme (BSRP). The original focus of SGEH covered all major themes related to the general concept of ecosystem health (EH). The outcomes of the SGEH contain a substantial amount of relevant in-formation and proposals that are valuable for the formulation of practical integrated strategies to the assessment of EH in the Baltic Sea.