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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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:EN
Published: Nature Portfolio 2017
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/b3e79069863748b2ab6cdb50bc973d6a
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