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Marine ecosystem indicators are sensitive to ecosystem boundaries and spatial scale
Time series indicators are widely used in ecosystem-based management. A suite of indicators is typically calculated for a static region or multiple subregions and presented in an ecosystem assessment (EA).
Kurt C. Heim +4 more
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Forests are specifically relevant for biodiversity and provide a wide range of ecosystem services. However, Europe’s forests and their services are threatened.
André Tiemann, Irene Ring
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Foraminiferal community response to seasonal anoxia in Lake Grevelingen (the Netherlands) [PDF]
Over the last decades, hypoxia in marine coastal environments has become more and more widespread, prolonged and intense. Hypoxic events have large consequences for the functioning of benthic ecosystems.
J. Richirt +11 more
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Integrated ecosystem assessment around islands of the tropical South Mid-Atlantic Ridge
The South Mid Atlantic Ridge comprises three main oceanic islands in the equatorial and tropical portions of the Atlantic Ocean. These islands are isolated from each other and equidistant from both the continental margins of South America and Africa ...
Amanda R. Rodrigues +9 more
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The vast spatial extent of the ocean presents a major challenge for monitoring changes in marine biodiversity and connecting those changes to management practices.
Caren Barceló +6 more
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Understanding the impacts and extent of both climate change and human activities on ecosystems is crucial to sustainable development. With low anti-interference ability, arid and semi-arid ecosystems are particularly sensitive to disturbances from both ...
Yanqing Zhou +4 more
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A review of ecosystem condition accounts: lessons learned and options for further development [PDF]
Ecosystem condition accounts are part of the System of Environmental-Economic Accounting – Experimental Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EEA). An ecosystem condition account contains aggregated statistical information about the overall abiotic and biotic ...
Joachim Maes +6 more
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Although China possesses a large number of islands, knowledge of their overall ecological condition is limited on a national scale. Accordingly, this study developed a comprehensive and quantitative island ecosystem assessment framework that incorporates
Zhiyuan Ma +18 more
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Selection criteria for ecosystem condition indicators
The UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting (SEEA EA) aims at regular and standardised stocktaking of the extent of ecosystems, their condition, and the services they provide to society.
Bálint Czúcz +7 more
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Implementing Ecosystem Approaches to Fishery Management: Risk Assessment in the US Mid-Atlantic
Fishery managers worldwide are evaluating methods for incorporating climate, habitat, ecological, social, and economic factors into current operations in order to implement Ecosystem Approaches to Fishery Management (EAFM).
Sarah K. Gaichas +6 more
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