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SUBMITTER: Halpern BS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6691109 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Aug
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Halpern Benjamin S BS Frazier Melanie M Afflerbach Jamie J Lowndes Julia S JS Micheli Fiorenza F O'Hara Casey C Scarborough Courtney C Selkoe Kimberly A KA
Scientific reports 20190812 1
Humans interact with the oceans in diverse and profound ways. The scope, magnitude, footprint and ultimate cumulative impacts of human activities can threaten ocean ecosystems and have changed over time, resulting in new challenges and threats to marine ecosystems. A fundamental gap in understanding how humanity is affecting the oceans is our limited knowledge about the pace of change in cumulative impact on ocean ecosystems from expanding human activities - and the patterns, locations and drive ...[more]