Managing for interactions between local and global stressors of ecosystems.

Global stressors, including climate change, are a major threat to ecosystems, but they cannot be halted by local actions. Ecosystem management is thus attempting to compensate for the impacts of global stressors by reducing local stressors, such as overfishing. This approach assumes that stressors i...

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Main Authors: Christopher J Brown, Megan I Saunders, Hugh P Possingham, Anthony J Richardson
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3680442?pdf=render