Interesting times: winners, losers, and system shifts under climate change around Australia
Author(s) -
Elizabeth A. Fulton
Publication year - 2011
Publication title -
ices journal of marine science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.348
H-Index - 117
eISSN - 1095-9289
pISSN - 1054-3139
DOI - 10.1093/icesjms/fsr032
Subject(s) - exploit , climate change , ecosystem , simple (philosophy) , function (biology) , space (punctuation) , global change , ecology , environmental science , environmental resource management , geography , computer science , biology , philosophy , computer security , epistemology , evolutionary biology , operating system
Fulton, E. A. 2011. Interesting times: winners, losers, and system shifts under climate change around Australia. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 68: 1329–1342. Feedback and change are basic features of ecosystems, something global change has highlighted. Changes in the physical environment will see shifts in species ranges, community compositions, and ultimately the form and function of ecosystem and the human societies that exploit them. What these shifts will be depends on which of the competing (and potentially counteracting) mechanisms dominate through space and time. Moreover, changes are unlikely to be simple or linear; there will be winners, losers, and surprises. It also means that management will be complex and non-stationary, presenting management, scientific, and statistical challenges.
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