Timing anthropogenic stressors to mitigate their impact on marine ecosystem resilience
Stressors such as sediment dredging can harm marine organisms, but this impact could be minimised if targeted within ‘ecological windows’. Here, Wu and colleagues develop a modelling framework to identify ecological windows that maximise seagrass resilience under varying dredging schedules.
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Nature Publishing Group
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Nature Communications |
| Online Access: | https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01306-9 |