Effects of model assumptions and data quality on spatial cumulative human impact assessments

Global Ecology and Biogeography

Volumn 25, Issue 11, 2016, Pages 1321-1332

  Stock, Andy ^a   Micheli, Fiorenza ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Baltic Sea; Black Sea; cumulative effects; cumulative impacts; mapping; Mediterranean Sea; modelling; sensitivity analysis; uncertainty analysis

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DATA QUALITY; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; FUTURE PROSPECT; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MODEL TEST; NUMERICAL MODEL; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; BLACK SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84981737320     PISSN: 1466822X     EISSN: 14668238     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/geb.12493     Document Type: Article

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