The role of sustained observations in tracking impacts of environmental change on marine biodiversity and ecosystems

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2025, 2014, Pages

  Mieszkowska, N ^a   Sugden, H ^b   Firth, L B ^c   Hawkins, S J ^a,d  

^a THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c NATIONAL UNIVERSITY OF IRELAND   (Ireland)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Climate change; Ecosystem; Marine biodiversity; Multiple stressors; Sustained observations; Timeseries

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; EUTROPHICATION; MARINE BIOLOGY; TIME SERIES;

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; COASTAL DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; MARINE BIODIVERSITY; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MULTIPLE STRESSORS; OCEAN ACIDIFICATIONS; SUSTAINED OBSERVATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

AQUATIC SPECIES; ARTICLE; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; HUMAN; MARINE BIODIVERSITY; MARINE BIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; MULTIPLE STRESSORS; POLICY; SUSTAINED OBSERVATIONS; TIME; TIMESERIES; UNITED KINGDOM;

CLIMATE CHANGE; ECOSYSTEM; MARINE BIODIVERSITY; MULTIPLE STRESSORS; SUSTAINED OBSERVATIONS; TIMESERIES;

AQUATIC ORGANISMS; BIODIVERSITY; CLIMATE; GREAT BRITAIN; HUMANS; MARINE BIOLOGY; POLICY; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 84907266422     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0339     Document Type: Review

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