Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services

Science

Volumn 314, Issue 5800, 2006, Pages 787-790

  Worm, Boris ^a   Barbier, Edward B ^b   Beaumont, Nicola ^c   Duffy, J Emmett ^d   Folke, Carl ^e,f   Halpern, Benjamin S ^g   Jackson, Jeremy B C ^h,i   Lotze, Heike K ^a   Micheli, Fiorenza ^j   Palumbi, Stephen R ^j   Sala, Enric ^h   Selkoe, Kimberley A ^g   Stachowicz, John J ^k   Watson, Reg ^l  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

^c PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^d VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f ROYAL SWEDISH ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Sweden)

^g NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^h CENTER FOR MARINE BIODIVERSITY AND CONSERVATION   (United States)

ⁱ SMITHSONIAN TROPICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Panama)

^j STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; FISHERIES; OCEANOGRAPHY; WATER QUALITY;

MARINE ECOSYSTEMS; RECOVERY POTENTIAL;

BIODIVERSITY;

BIODIVERSITY; DATA SET; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FISHERY; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OCEAN; POPULATION DECLINE; RESTORATION ECOLOGY; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION; TESTING METHOD; TIME SERIES; WATER QUALITY;

ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEM; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRODUCTIVITY; SEA; SPECIES; WATER QUALITY;

ALGAE; ANIMALS; BIODIVERSITY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; DATABASES, FACTUAL; ECOSYSTEM; FISHERIES; FISHES; FORECASTING; INVERTEBRATES; OCEANS AND SEAS; PLANTS; POPULATION DYNAMICS; SEAFOOD; SEAWATER; WATER POLLUTION;

EID: 33750720993     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1132294     Document Type: Article

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