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Historical Overfishing and the Recent Collapse of Coastal Ecosystems
- J. B. Jackson, M. X. Kirby, +16 authors R. Warner
- Geography, Medicine
- Science
- 27 July 2001
Ecological extinction caused by overfishing precedes all other pervasive human disturbance to coastal ecosystems, including pollution, degradation of water quality, and anthropogenic climate change.… Expand
Depletion, Degradation, and Recovery Potential of Estuaries and Coastal Seas
- H. Lotze, H. Lenihan, +7 authors J. B. Jackson
- Environmental Science, Medicine
- Science
- 23 June 2006
Estuarine and coastal transformation is as old as civilization yet has dramatically accelerated over the past 150 to 300 years. Reconstructed time lines, causes, and consequences of change in 12 once… Expand
The Report of the Ecological Society of America Committee on the Scientific Basis for Ecosystem Management
- Norman L. Christensen, A. Bartuska, +10 authors R. Woodmansee
- Business, Geography
- 1 August 1996
Ecosystem management is management driven by explicit goals, executed by policies, protocols, and practices, and made adaptable by monitoring and research based on our best understanding of the… Expand
Long-Term Ecosystem Response to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
- C. Peterson, S. Rice, +4 authors D. Irons
- Environmental Science, Medicine
- Science
- 19 December 2003
The ecosystem response to the 1989 spill of oil from the Exxon Valdez into Prince William Sound, Alaska, shows that current practices for assessing ecological risks of oil in the oceans and, by… Expand
The management of fisheries and marine ecosystems
- L. Botsford, J. C. Castilla, C. Peterson
- Geography
- 25 July 1997
The global marine fish catch is approaching its upper limit. The number of overfished populations, as well as the indirect effects of fisheries on marine ecosystems, indicate that management has… Expand
Estimated enhancement of fish production resulting from restoring oyster reef habitat: quantitative valuation
- C. Peterson, J. Grabowski, S. Powers
- Environmental Science
- 15 December 2003
We reviewed studies providing quantitative measurements of abundance of fishes and large mobile crustaceans on oyster reefs and on nearby sedimentary habitat in the southeast United States. For each… Expand
Cascading Effects of the Loss of Apex Predatory Sharks from a Coastal Ocean
- R. Myers, J. Baum, Travis D. Shepherd, S. Powers, C. Peterson
- Biology, Medicine
- Science
- 30 March 2007
Impacts of chronic overfishing are evident in population depletions worldwide, yet indirect ecosystem effects induced by predator removal from oceanic food webs remain unpredictable. As abundances of… Expand
Cascading of habitat degradation: Oyster reefs invaded by refugee fishes escaping stress
- H. Lenihan, C. Peterson, J. Byers, J. Grabowski, G. Thayer, D. R. Colby
- Environmental Science
- 1 June 2001
Mobile consumers have potential to cause a cascading of habitat degradation beyond the region that is directly stressed, by concentrating in refuges where they intensify biological interactions and… Expand
The Sustainable Biosphere Initiative: An Ecological Research Agenda: A Report from the Ecological Society of America
- J. Lubchenco, A. Olson, +13 authors P. G. Risser
- Environmental Science, Biology
- 1 April 1991
In this document, the Ecological Society of America proposes the Sustainable Biosphere Initiative (SBI), an initiative that focuses on the necessary role of ecological science in the wise management… Expand
Economic Valuation of Ecosystem Services Provided by Oyster Reefs
- J. Grabowski, R. Brumbaugh, +6 authors A. Smyth
- Environmental Science
- 1 October 2012
Valuation of ecosystem services can provide evidence of the importance of sustaining and enhancing those resources and the ecosystems that provide them. Long appreciated only as a commercial source… Expand