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SUBMITTER: Ellis JI
PROVIDER: S-EPMC5607226 | biostudies-literature | 2017 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Ellis J I JI Clark D D Atalah J J Jiang W W Taiapa C C Patterson M M Sinner J J Hewitt J J
Scientific reports 20170920 1
Sedimentation, nutrients and metal loading to coastal environments are increasing, associated with urbanization and global warming, hence there is a growing need to predict ecological responses to such change. Using a regression technique we predicted how maximum abundance of 20 macrobenthic taxa and 22 functional traits separately and interactively responded to these key stressors. The abundance of most taxa declined in response to sedimentation and metal loading while a unimodal response was o ...[more]