Interactions between global and local stressors of ecosystems determine management effectiveness in cumulative impact mapping

Diversity and Distributions

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 538-546

  Brown, Christopher J ^a   Saunders, Megan I ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a,b   Richardson, Anthony J ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Antagonistic threats; Biodiversity prioritization; Ecosystem stress mapping; Multiple stressors; Seagrass; Synergistic threats; Threat mapping

Indexed keywords

ANTAGONISM; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOLOGICAL IMPACT; ECOSYSTEM MANAGEMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL STRESS; EUTROPHICATION; MAPPING; MEADOW; PRIORITIZATION; REFUGE; SEAGRASS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SYNERGISM; WARMING;

AUSTRALASIA;

EID: 84897962896     PISSN: 13669516     EISSN: 14724642     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/ddi.12159     Document Type: Article

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