Assessing the Impact of Human Activities on British Columbia’s Estuaries
| العنوان: | Assessing the Impact of Human Activities on British Columbia’s Estuaries |
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| المؤلفون: | Carolyn Kathleen Robb |
| المصدر: | PLoS ONE PLoS ONE, Vol 9, Iss 6, p e99578 (2014) |
| بيانات النشر: | Public Library of Science, 2014. |
| سنة النشر: | 2014 |
| مصطلحات موضوعية: | Marine conservation, Cartography, Computer and Information Sciences, Aquatic Organisms, Conservation of Natural Resources, lcsh:Medicine, Marine and Aquatic Sciences, Marine Biology, Marine Conservation, Environmental protection, Geoinformatics, Scientific consensus, Animals, Cluster Analysis, Humans, Marine ecosystem, Ecosystem, Geostatistics, lcsh:Science, Conservation Science, Multidisciplinary, geography.geographical_feature_category, Ecology, Geography, British Columbia, business.industry, lcsh:R, Environmental resource management, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Biology and Life Sciences, Aquatic Environments, Estuary, Marine Environments, Threatened species, Land acquisition, Geographic Information Systems, Earth Sciences, lcsh:Q, Stewardship, business, Estuaries, Coastal Ecology, Environmental Protection, Research Article, Freshwater Environments |
| الوصف: | The world's marine and coastal ecosystems are under threat and single-sector management efforts have failed to address those threats. Scientific consensus suggests that management should evolve to focus on ecosystems and their human, ecological, and physical components. Estuaries are recognized globally as one of the world's most productive and most threatened ecosystems and many estuarine areas in British Columbia (BC) have been lost or degraded. To help prioritize activities and areas for regional management efforts, spatial information on human activities that adversely affect BC's estuaries was compiled. Using statistical analyses, estuaries were assigned to groups facing related threats that could benefit from similar management. The results show that estuaries in the most populated marine ecosections have the highest biological importance but also the highest impacts and the lowest levels of protection. This research is timely, as it will inform ongoing marine planning, land acquisition, and stewardship efforts in BC. |
| اللغة: | English |
| تدمد: | 1932-6203 |
| الوصول الحر: | https://explore.openaire.eu/search/publication?articleId=doi_dedup___::90c41c9e1baabb4db726cf8870fcc344Test http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC4061013Test |
| حقوق: | OPEN |
| رقم الانضمام: | edsair.doi.dedup.....90c41c9e1baabb4db726cf8870fcc344 |
| قاعدة البيانات: | OpenAIRE |
| تدمد: | 19326203 |
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