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Creating a safe operating space for iconic ecosystems
- Source :
- Science, 347(6228), 1317-1319, Science, 347, 1317-1319, Science, 347, 6228, pp. 1317-1319, Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, Science 347 (2015) 6228
- Publication Year :
- 2015
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Abstract
- Although some ecosystem responses to climate change are gradual, many ecosystems react in highly nonlinear ways. They show little response until a threshold or tipping point is reached where even a small perturbation may trigger collapse into a state from which recovery is difficult (1). Increasing evidence shows that the critical climate level for such collapse may be altered by conditions that can be managed locally. These synergies between local stressors and climate change provide potential opportunities for proactive management. Although their clarity and scale make such local approaches more conducive to action than global greenhouse gas management, crises in iconic UNESCO World Heritage sites illustrate that such stewardship is at risk of failing.
- Subjects :
- 0106 biological sciences
Aquatic Ecology and Water Quality Management
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
Natural resource economics
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education
amazon
Climate change
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
law.invention
Deforestation
law
deforestation
Greenhouse effect
impacts
resilience
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
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Multidisciplinary
business.industry
Environmental resource management
Aquatic Ecology
15. Life on land
Aquatische Ecologie en Waterkwaliteitsbeheer
Tipping point (climatology)
PE&RC
coral-reefs
13. Climate action
Greenhouse gas
Ecological Microbiology
Wildlife Ecology and Conservation
climate-change
CLARITY
Business
Psychological resilience
Stewardship
fire
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- Language :
- English
- ISSN :
- 00368075
- Database :
- OpenAIRE
- Journal :
- Science, 347(6228), 1317-1319, Science, 347, 1317-1319, Science, 347, 6228, pp. 1317-1319, Digital.CSIC. Repositorio Institucional del CSIC, instname, Science 347 (2015) 6228
- Accession number :
- edsair.doi.dedup.....d35ef2351d88b6a315a8cc1b196c5759