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Assessing Risks to Wildlife Populations from Multiple Stressors: Overview of the Problem and Research Needs.

Ecology and Society, 2006
Wildlife populations are experiencing increasing pressure from human-induced changes in the landscape. Stressors including agricultural and urban land use, introduced invasive and exotic species, nutrient enrichment, direct human disturbance, and toxic ...
Wayne R. Munns, Jr.
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Pressure-Induced Shifts in Trophic Linkages in a Simplified Aquatic Food Web

Frontiers in Environmental Science, 2017
It is essential to understand effects of existing and emerging anthropogenic stressors on the structure of aquatic food webs in more natural settings, to obtain realistic predictions on how they can affect major ecosystem properties and functioning.
Maarten Schrama, Maarten Schrama, S. Henrik Barmentlo, Ellard R. Hunting, Richard S. P. van Logtestijn, Martina G. Vijver, Peter M. van Bodegom   +6 more
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The contribution of work and non-work stressors to common mental disorders in the 2007 Adult Psychiatric Morbidity Survey. [PDF]

, 2011
Evidence for an effect of work stressors on common mental disorders (CMD) has increased over the past decade. However, studies have not considered whether the effects of work stressors on CMD remain after taking co-occurring non-work stressors into ...
Jenkins, R., C. Pike, McManus, S., Brugha, T, Bebbington, Paul, Bebbington, P., Weich, S., R. Jenkins, Pike, C, T. Brugha, S. Weich, J. Harris, Weich, S, Clark, C., McManus, Sally, Meltzer, H, Meltzer, H., C. Clark, Stansfeld, Stephen, S. Stansfeld, Brugha, T. S. (Traolach S.), Brugha, T., Meltzer, Howard, McManus, S, Harris, J., Jenkins, Rachel, S. McManus, Jenkins, R, Harris, J, Bebbington, P. E., Stansfeld, S, P. Bebbington, Clark, C, Pike, C., Bebbington, P, H. Meltzer, Stansfeld, S., Clarke, C., Weich, Scott   +38 more
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Mine Waste and Acute Warming Induce Energetic Stress in the Deep-Sea Sponge Geodia atlantica and Coral Primnoa resedeaformis; Results From a Mesocosm Study

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2018
There is the potential for climate change to interact with pollution in all of the Earth's oceans. In the fjords of Norway, mine tailings are released into fjords generating suspended sediment plumes that impact deep-sea ecosystems.
Elliot Scanes, Elliot Scanes, Tina Kutti, James K. H. Fang, James K. H. Fang, Emma L. Johnston, Pauline M. Ross, Raymond J. Bannister   +7 more
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Iron Availability Influences the Tolerance of Southern Ocean Phytoplankton to Warming and Elevated Irradiance

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
The Southern Ocean is responsible for approximately 40% of oceanic carbon uptake through biological and physical processes. In the Southern Ocean, phytoplankton growth is limited by low iron (Fe) and light supply.
Sarah M. Andrew, Hugh T. Morell, Robert F. Strzepek, Philip W. Boyd, Philip W. Boyd, Michael J. Ellwood   +5 more
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Multiple stressors effects on community stability

, 2022
Las actividades antropogénicas ejercen una presión constante sobre los sistemas naturales, amenazando la diversidad, la estabilidad y el funcionamiento de estos en todo el planeta. Además, existe un gran número de factores de estrés antropogénico, como son la eutrofización, la contaminación química y los eventos extremos, que actúan de manera ...
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Benthic macroinvertebrates and multiple stressors : quantification of the effects of multiple stressors in field, laboratory and model settings [PDF]

, 2001
Organisms are always exposed to several simultaneously operating stressors in nature. It appears that the combined effects of multiple stressors cannot be understood as a simple product of their individual effects.
Peeters, E.T.H.M.
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Water Scarcity as a Driver of Multiple Stressor Effects

, 2019
Growing human demands for water are leading to rapid increases in the frequency and severity of water scarcity, where there is insufficient water to simultaneously support both human and ecosystem water needs.
Ryan M. Burrows, Mark J. Kennard, Stuart E. Bunn, Burrows, RM, Bond, NR, Kennard, MJ, Bunn, SE, Nick R. Bond   +7 more
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Patients' and nurses' perspectives on patients' experience for coronary care unit stressors using a mixed method approach [PDF]

, 2011
This thesis was submitted for the degree of Doctor of Philosophy and awarded by Brunel University.Background: Getting admitted to CCU is viewed as a stressful event by patients.
Qaid, Rafa TA
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Experience of Identity Change in People Who Reported a Diagnosis of Multiple Sclerosis : A Qualitative Inquiry [PDF]

, 2019
Background: A diagnosis of multiple sclerosis (MS) can lead to changes to a person’s sense of self. The aim of this study was to investigate the subjective experience of identity change and subsequent adjustment to MS.
das Nair, Roshan, Smale, Kathryn, Lincoln, NB, Lincoln, Nadina B., Barker, AB, Hunt, N, Smale, K., das Nair, R, Hunt, Nigel, Barker, Alexander B., Barker, A., Smale, K, Lincoln, N.B., Hunt, N.   +13 more
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