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Marine ecosystem indicators are sensitive to ecosystem boundaries and spatial scale

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2021
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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Towards ecosystem service assessment: Developing biophysical indicators for forest ecosystem services

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2022
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]

open access: yesBiogeosciences, 2020
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

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2023
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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Time-Varying Epipelagic Community Seascapes: Assessing and Predicting Species Composition in the Northeastern Pacific Ocean

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2021
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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Ecological Responses to Climate Change and Human Activities in the Arid and Semi-Arid Regions of Xinjiang in China

open access: yesRemote Sensing, 2022
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]

open access: yesOne Ecosystem, 2020
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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Conditions of Mainland China’s Island Ecosystems and Associated Influencing Factors: Integrated Assessment of 42 Typical Island Ecosystems

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2022
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

open access: yesEcological Indicators, 2021
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

open access: yesFrontiers in Marine Science, 2018
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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