Cumulative human impacts on Mediterranean and Black Sea marine ecosystems: assessing current pressures and opportunities.

Management of marine ecosystems requires spatial information on current impacts. In several marine regions, including the Mediterranean and Black Sea, legal mandates and agreements to implement ecosystem-based management and spatial plans provide new opportunities to balance uses and protection of m...

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Main Authors: Fiorenza Micheli, Benjamin S Halpern, Shaun Walbridge, Saul Ciriaco, Francesco Ferretti, Simonetta Fraschetti, Rebecca Lewison, Leo Nykjaer, Andrew A Rosenberg
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:https://journals.plos.org/plosone/article/file?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0079889&type=printable