Human harvest, climate change and their synergistic effects drove the Chinese Crested Tern to the brink of extinction

Synergistic effect refers to simultaneous actions of separate factors which have a greater total effect than the sum of the individual factor effects. However, there has been a limited knowledge on how synergistic effects occur and individual roles of different drivers are not often considered. Ther...

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Main Authors: Shuihua Chen, Zhongyong Fan, Daniel D. Roby, Yiwei Lu, Cangsong Chen, Qin Huang, Lijing Cheng, Jiang Zhu
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2015-07-01
Series:Global Ecology and Conservation
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Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2351989415000682