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Response to Comment on "A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems"

2008; American Association for the Advancement of Science; Volume: 321; Issue: 5895 Linguagem: Inglês

10.1126/science.1158007

1095-9203

Kimberly A. Selkoe, Carrie V. Kappel, Benjamin S. Halpern, Fiorenza Micheli, Caterina D'Agrosa, John F. Bruno, Kenneth S. Casey, Colin M. Ebert, Helen Fox, Rod Fujita, Dennis Heinemann, Hunter S. Lenihan, Elizabeth M. P. Madin, Matt Perry, Elizabeth R. Selig, Mark Spalding, Robert S. Steneck, Shaun Walbridge, Reg Watson,

Marine Bivalve and Aquaculture Studies

Our results provide an important first step toward a full assessment of how human activities act cumulatively to affect the condition of the oceans. Fisheries (and climate change) impacts are some of the hardest to map and measure accurately. Consequently, species-specific considerations and fine-scale analyses should be left to more nuanced regional-scale replicates of our mapping framework.