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Human activities and climate variability drive fast‐paced change across the world's estuarine–coastal ecosystems

Overview of attention for article published in Global Change Biology, November 2015
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Title
Human activities and climate variability drive fast‐paced change across the world's estuarine–coastal ecosystems
Published in
Global Change Biology, November 2015
DOI 10.1111/gcb.13059
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James E Cloern, Paulo C Abreu, Jacob Carstensen, Laurent Chauvaud, Ragnar Elmgren, Jacques Grall, Holly Greening, John Olov Roger Johansson, Mati Kahru, Edward T Sherwood, Jie Xu, Kedong Yin

Abstract

Time series of environmental measurements are essential for detecting, measuring and understanding changes in the Earth system and its biological communities. Observational series have accumulated over the past 2-5 decades from measurements across the world's estuaries, bays, lagoons, inland seas and shelf waters influenced by runoff. We synthesize information contained in these time series to develop a global view of changes occurring in marine systems influenced by connectivity to land. Our review is organized around four themes: (1) human activities as drivers of change; (2) variability of the climate system as a driver of change; (3) successes, disappointments and challenges of managing change at the sea-land interface; and (4) discoveries made from observations over time. Multidecadal time series reveal that many of the world's estuarine-coastal ecosystems are in a continuing state of change, and the pace of change is faster than we could have imagined a decade ago. Some have been transformed into novel ecosystems with habitats, biogeochemistry and biological communities outside the natural range of variability. Change takes many forms including linear and nonlinear trends, abrupt state changes, and oscillations. The challenge of managing change is daunting in the coastal zone where diverse human pressures are concentrated and intersect with different responses to climate variability over land and over ocean basins. The pace of change in estuarine-coastal ecosystems will likely accelerate as the human population and economies continue to grow and as global climate change accelerates. Wise stewardship of the resources upon which we depend is critically dependent upon a continuing flow of information from observations to measure, understand and anticipate future changes along the world's coastlines. This article is protected by copyright. All rights reserved.

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Geographical breakdown

Country Count As %
United States 3 <1%
France 2 <1%
South Africa 2 <1%
Finland 1 <1%
Japan 1 <1%
Canada 1 <1%
Unknown 485 98%

Demographic breakdown

Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 86 17%
Researcher 76 15%
Student > Master 58 12%
Student > Bachelor 47 9%
Student > Doctoral Student 27 5%
Other 84 17%
Unknown 117 24%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Environmental Science 134 27%
Agricultural and Biological Sciences 112 23%
Earth and Planetary Sciences 40 8%
Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology 13 3%
Engineering 11 2%
Other 35 7%
Unknown 150 30%
Attention Score in Context

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This research output has an Altmetric Attention Score of 10. This is our high-level measure of the quality and quantity of online attention that it has received. This Attention Score, as well as the ranking and number of research outputs shown below, was calculated when the research output was last mentioned on 19 February 2023.
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#3,540,626
of 25,083,571 outputs
Outputs from Global Change Biology
#3,711
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#56,598
of 398,477 outputs
Outputs of similar age from Global Change Biology
#50
of 87 outputs
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