Climate change (CC) is a key, global driver of change of marine ecosystems. At local and
regional scales, other local human stressors (LS) can interact with CC and modify its effects …

Determining and assessing the links between human pressures and state-changes in
marine and coastal ecosystems remains a challenge. Although there are several conceptual …

Climate change is having a significant impact on ecosystem services and is likely to become
increasingly important as this phenomenon intensifies. Future impacts can be difficult to …

Ecosystem services and ecological risk prevention are important factors that influence for
sustainable socio-economic development. In recent years, fewer studies, and practices have …

As pressures on coastal zones mount, there is a growing need for frameworks that can be
used to conceptualize complex sustainability challenges and help organize research that …

Cumulative impacts increasingly threaten marine and coastal ecosystems. To address this
issue, the research community has invested efforts on designing and testing different …

Risk assessments quantify the probability of undesirable events along with their
consequences. They are used to prioritize management interventions and assess tradeoffs …

The aim of ecosystem-based management (EBM) is to maintain an ecosystem in a healthy,
productive and resilient condition through the implementation of policies and management …

Global initiatives have been increasingly focusing on mainstreaming the values of
biodiversity and ecosystem services into decision-making at all levels. Due to the …

Florida Bay is home to a network of shallow mud-banks which act as barriers to circulation
creating small basins that are often subject to extremes in temperature and salinity. Florida …