Understanding relationships between conflicting human uses and coastal ecosystems status: A geospatial modeling approach

Ecological Indicators

Volumn 19, Issue , 2012, Pages 253-263

  Parravicini, V ^a,b   Rovere, A ^a,b   Vassallo, P ^a   Micheli, F ^c   Montefalcone, M ^a   Morri, C ^a   Paoli, C ^a   Albertelli, G ^a   Fabiano, M ^a   Bianchi, C N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b SEAMap Srl   (Italy)

^c STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Cartography; Ecosystem status; Ecosystem based management; Marine spatial planning; Mediterranean Sea; Multiple stressors; Random forests

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEM-BASED MANAGEMENT; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MULTIPLE STRESSORS; RANDOM FORESTS; SPATIAL PLANNING;

CONSERVATION; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEMS; DECISION TREES; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MANAGERS; MAPPING; MAPS; PORTS AND HARBORS; PROBLEM SOLVING;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CARTOGRAPHY; COASTAL ZONE; CONSERVATION PLANNING; DECISION SUPPORT SYSTEM; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM DYNAMICS; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; GIS; HARBOR; HUMAN ACTIVITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE PARK; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; NUMERICAL MODEL; SPATIAL PLANNING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84858747432     PISSN: 1470160X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecolind.2011.07.027     Document Type: Article

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