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Ranking Vulnerability of Marine Ecosystems by silfarius is a document available to read on EtoBox.
This document describes a study that evaluated threats to global marine ecosystems. Researchers surveyed 135 experts from 19 countries to assess the impacts of 38 threats on 23 marine ecosystems. The experts evaluated the functional impact, scale, frequency, ecosystem resistance and recovery time for each threat-ecosystem combination. Survey results showed that all ecosystems are threatened by at least 9 threats, and 9 ecosystems are threatened by over 90% of existing threats. The greatest threats were foun
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- silfarius
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- EN