Ecosystem health assessment in the pearl river estuary of China by considering ecosystem coordination.

Marine ecosystem is a complex nonlinear system. However, ecosystem health assessment conventionally builds on a linear superposition of changes in ecosystem components and probably fails to evaluate nonlinear interactions among various components. To better reflect the intrinsic interactions and the...

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Main Authors: Xiaoyan Chen, Huiwang Gao, Xiaohong Yao, Zhenhua Chen, Hongda Fang, Shufeng Ye
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3720912?pdf=render