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Baltic Sea biodiversity status vs. cumulative human pressures
- Source :
- Andersen, JH; Halpern, BS; Korpinen, S; Murray, C; & Reker, J. (2015). Baltic Sea biodiversity status vs. cumulative human pressures. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 161, 88-92. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2015.05.002. UC Santa Barbara: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1qr4481x, Andersen, J H, Halpern, B S, Korpinen, S, Murray, C & Reker, J 2015, ' Baltic Sea biodiversity status vs. cumulative human pressures ', Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 161, pp. 88-92 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2015.05.002
- Publication Year :
- 2015
- Publisher :
- eScholarship, University of California, 2015.
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Abstract
- Many studies have tried to explain spatial and temporal variations in biodiversity status of marine areas from a single-issue perspective, such as fishing pressure or coastal pollution, yet most continental seas experience a wide range of human pressures. Cumulative impact assessments have been developed to capture the consequences of multiple stressors for biodiversity, but the ability of these assessments to accurately predict biodiversity status has never been tested or ground-truthed. This relationship has similarly been assumed for the Baltic Sea, especially in areas with impaired status, but has also never been documented. Here we provide a first tentative indication that cumulative human impacts relate to ecosystem condition, i.e. biodiversity status, in the Baltic Sea. Thus, cumulative impact assessments offer a promising tool for informed marine spatial planning, designation of marine protected areas and ecosystem-based management, and may prove useful for setting limits on allowable levels of human impact on ecosystems. Many studies have tried to explain spatial and temporal variations in biodiversity status of marine areas from a single-issue perspective, such as fishing pressure or coastal pollution, yet most continental seas experience a wide range of human pressures. Cumulative impact assessments have been developed to capture the consequences of multiple stressors for biodiversity, but the ability of these assessments to accurately predict biodiversity status has never been tested or ground-truthed. This relationship has similarly been assumed for the Baltic Sea, especially in areas with impaired status, but has also never been documented. Here we provide a first tentative indication that cumulative human impacts relate to ecosystem condition, i.e. biodiversity status, in the Baltic Sea. Thus, cumulative impact assessments offer a promising tool for informed marine spatial planning, designation of marine protected areas and ecosystem-based management, and may prove useful for setting limits on allowable levels of human impact on ecosystems.
- Subjects :
- marine biodiversity
MARINE ECOSYSTEMS
cumulative effects
Baltic Sea
IMPACT
Fishing
04 Earth Sciences
05 Environmental Sciences
Biodiversity
Aquatic Science
Oceanography
Marine ecosystem
Ecosystem
Marine & Freshwater Biology
impacts
Science & Technology
business.industry
Ecology
Impact assessment
Environmental resource management
Cumulative effects
Marine spatial planning
06 Biological Sciences
pressures
Marine Biology & Hydrobiology
multiple stressors
Geography
Physical Sciences
Marine protected area
business
Life Sciences & Biomedicine
Subjects
Details
- Language :
- English
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Andersen, JH; Halpern, BS; Korpinen, S; Murray, C; & Reker, J. (2015). Baltic Sea biodiversity status vs. cumulative human pressures. Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, 161, 88-92. doi: 10.1016/j.ecss.2015.05.002. UC Santa Barbara: Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1qr4481x, Andersen, J H, Halpern, B S, Korpinen, S, Murray, C & Reker, J 2015, ' Baltic Sea biodiversity status vs. cumulative human pressures ', Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science, vol. 161, pp. 88-92 . https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2015.05.002
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....4acfd10595d371c1c4b19961f1536ee6
- Full Text :
- https://doi.org/10.1016/j.ecss.2015.05.002.