Polar lessons learned: Long-term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments

Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 316-324

  Bennett, Joseph R ^a   Shaw, Justine D ^a,b   Terauds, Aleks ^b   Smol, John P ^c   Aerts, Rien ^d   Bergstrom, Dana M ^b   Blais, Jules M ^e   Cheung, William W L ^f   Chown, Steven L ^g   Lea, Mary Anne ^h   Nielsen, Uffe N ⁱ   Pauly, Daniel ^f   Reimer, Kenneth J ^j   Riddle, Martin J ^b   Snape, Ian ^b   Stark, Jonathan S ^b   Tulloch, Vivitskaia J ^a   Possingham, Hugh P ^a,k  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^c QUEEN S UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^d VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OTTAWA   (Canada)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^g MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

ⁱ WESTERN SYDNEY UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j ROYAL MILITARY COLLEGE OF CANADA   (Canada)

^k IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL INVASION; EMISSION CONTROL; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; EXPLOITATION; GREENHOUSE GAS; HUMAN ACTIVITY; INTERNATIONAL COOPERATION; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; POLAR REGION;

ANTARCTICA; ARCTIC;

EID: 84939559837     PISSN: 15409295     EISSN: 15409309     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1890/140315     Document Type: Review

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