Anthropocene Baselines: Assessing Change and Managing Biodiversity in Human-Dominated Aquatic Ecosystems

BioScience

Volumn 65, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 798-811

  Kopf, R Keller ^a   Finlayson, C Max ^a   Humphries, Paul ^a   Sims, Neil C ^b   Hladyz, Sally ^c  

^a CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

alternative stable state; novel ecosystem; regime shift; resilience; river restoration

Indexed keywords

EID: 84938841298     PISSN: 00063568     EISSN: 15253244     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/biosci/biv092     Document Type: Review

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