Regime Shifts and Ecosystem Service Generation in Swedish Coastal Soft Bottom Habitats: When Resilience is Undesirable
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Regime shifts and ecosystem services in Swedish coastal soft bottom habitats: when resilience is undesirable
Ecosystems can undergo regime shifts where they suddenly change from one state into another. This can have important implications for formulation of management strategies, if system characteristics develop that are undesirable from a human perspective, and that have a high resistance to restoration efforts. This paper identifies some of the ecological and economic consequences of increased abun...
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عنوان ژورنال: Ecology and Society
سال: 2005
ISSN: 1708-3087
DOI: 10.5751/es-01374-100130