Plausible futures of a social-ecological system: Yahara watershed, Wisconsin, USA

Ecology and Society

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2015, Pages

  Carpenter, Stephen R ^a   Booth, Eric G ^a,b   Gillon, Sean ^a,c   Kucharik, Christopher J ^a   Loheide, Steven ^b   Mase, Amber S ^a   Motew, Melissa ^a   Qiu, Jiangxiao ^a   Rissman, Adena R ^a   Seifert, Jenny ^a   Soylu, Evren ^a,d   Turner, Monica ^a   Wardropper, Chloe B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

^b University of Wisconsin Madison   (United States)

^c Marylhurst University   (United States)

^d MELIKSAH UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Alternative futures; Climate; Ecosystem services; Eutrophication; Governance; Lakes; Land use change; Phosphorus; Scenarios

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CLIMATE EFFECT; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; EUTROPHICATION; GOVERNANCE APPROACH; LAKE WATER; LAND USE CHANGE; NATURE-SOCIETY RELATIONS; PHOSPHORUS; WATER MANAGEMENT; WATER QUALITY; WATERSHED;

UNITED STATES; WISCONSIN;

EID: 84934783681     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17083087     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5751/ES-07433-200210     Document Type: Article

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