The Baltic Sea as a time machine for the future coastal ocean.

ABSTRACT: Coastal global oceans are expected to undergo drastic changes driven by climate change and increasing anthropogenic pressures in coming decades. Predicting specific future conditions and assessing the best management strategies to maintain ecosystem integrity and sustainable resource use are difficult, because of multiple interacting pressures, uncertain projections, and a lack of test cases for management. We argue that the Baltic Sea can serve as a time machine to study consequences and mitigation of future coastal perturbations, due to its unique combination of an early history of multistressor disturbance and ecosystem deterioration and early implementation of cross-border environmental management to address these problems. The Baltic Sea also stands out in providing a strong scientifi

SUBMITTER: Reusch TBH 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5942908 | biostudies-literature | 2018 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature