Regime shifts and ecosystem services in Swedish coastal soft bottom habitats: When resilience is undesirable

Ecology and Society

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2005, Pages

  Troell, Max ^a   Pihl, Leif ^b   Rönnbäck, Patrick ^b   Wennhage, Håkan ^b   Söderqvist, Tore ^b   Kautsky, Nils ^b  

^a ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^b NONE

Author keywords

Alternate stable states; Ecosystem function; Ecosystem goods and services; Eutrophication; Filamentous algal mats; Resilience; Shallow soft bottoms

Indexed keywords

COASTAL PROTECTION; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTION; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EUTROPHICATION;

EASTERN HEMISPHERE; EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA; SWEDEN; WORLD;

ALGAE;

EID: 27444439750     PISSN: 17083087     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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