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Multiple Stressors and the Functioning of Coral Reefs

Annual Review of Marine Science, 2017
Coral reefs provide critical services to coastal communities, and these services rely on ecosystem functions threatened by stressors. By summarizing the threats to the functioning of reefs from fishing, climate change, and decreasing water quality, we highlight that these stressors have multiple, conflicting effects on functionally similar groups of ...
Harborne, Alastair R., Rogers, Alice, Bozec, Yves-Marie, Mumby, Peter J.   +3 more
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Implications for environmental health of multiple stressors

Journal of Radiological Protection, 2009
Recent insights into the mechanisms underlying the biological effects of low dose effects of ionising radiation have revealed that similar mechanisms can be induced by chemical stressors in the environment. This means that interactions between radiation and chemicals are likely and that the outcomes following mixed exposures to radiation and chemicals ...
Carmel, Mothersill, Colin, Seymour
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MULTIPLE STRESSORS AND THE CAUSE OF AMPHIBIAN ABNORMALITIES

Ecology, 2010
The repeated occurrence of abnormal amphibians in nature points to ecological imbalance, yet identifying causes of these abnormalities has proved complex. Multiple studies have linked amphibian abnormalities to chemically contaminated areas, but inference about causal mechanisms is lacking.
Mari K. Reeves, Peter Jensen, Christine L. Dolph, Marcel Holyoak, Kimberly A. Trust   +4 more
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The physiological effects of multiple stressors

Behavioral Science, 1966
In psychophysiological experimentation a number of studies have investigated the physiological response to a single stimulus or to a series of stimuli differing only in intensity. They have, in general, reported sympathetic-like changes in a wide range of physiological variables to such diverse stimuli as electric shock, loud noise, dynamometer tension,
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Multiple stressors

Abstract In a rapidly changing world, animals must respond to multiple stressors that occur either simultaneously or in rapid succession. While more challenging than studying responses to single stressors, directly studying multiple stressors is important because not all effects are additive; multiple stressors can interact in ...
Amelia Munson, Daphne Cortese, Shaun S. Killen   +2 more
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Multiple stressors in freshwater ecosystems

Freshwater Biology, 2010
Summary1. The fundamental importance of freshwater resources, the rapid extinction rate among freshwater species and the pronounced sensitivity of freshwater ecosystems to climate change together signal a pre‐eminent need for renewed scientific focus and greater resources.
S. J. ORMEROD, M. DOBSON, A. G. HILDREW, C. R. TOWNSEND   +3 more
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Multiple Stressors and Disturbances

2009
Marine communities are increasingly affected by numerous stressors that act as agents of physical and biological disturbance through a combination of natural and human-induced impacts. These include storms, sedimentation, temperature changes, pollution, eutrophication, over-harvesting, damage to habitats, arrival of invasive species and climate change.
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Multiple stressors in the Sacramento River watershed

1998
Aquatic biota in the Sacramento River watershed are stressed by diversion of river flows, by historical mining resulting in cadmium, copper, zinc, and mercury, and, more recently, contamination by agricultural and urban chemical runoff. In addition, the proposed redirection of drainage of saline waters--containing selenium--from the western slope of ...
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WP4 Impact of Multiple Stressors

2019
Presentation made at the iAtlantic kick-off meeting in Edinburgh, Scotland, June ...
Sweetman, Andrew, Carreiro-Silva, Marina
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A Layperson's Primer on Multiple Stressors

2007
This article introduces the concept of multiple stressors. It has been written for the layperson, in terms that do not require a strong scientific background. It has been written to facilitate scientists' communication with the public and funding agencies about multiple stressors.
Thomas G. Hinton, Kouichi Aizawa
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