Timing anthropogenic stressors to mitigate their impact on marine ecosystem resilience

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.

Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Paul Pao-Yen Wu, Kerrie Mengersen, Kathryn McMahon, Gary A. Kendrick, Kathryn Chartrand, Paul H. York, Michael A. Rasheed, M. Julian Caley
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2017-11-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-01306-9
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Summary: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.
ISSN:2041-1723

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