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A meta-analysis of multiple stressors on seagrasses in the context of marine spatial cumulative impacts assessment.
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13 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.
- Understanding trends inPeerJ · 2025Pooled it
- Assessing cumulative impacts of human-induced pressures on reef and sandbank habitats and associated biotopes in the northeastern Baltic Sea.Marine pollution bulletin · 2022Pooled it
- Quantification of blue carbon storage in seagrass meadows across different management strategies in Lamu, Kenya.Scientific reports · 2026Article
- Cumulative effects assessment under the World Heritage and Ramsar regimes.Environmental management · 2025Article
- Incorporating stressor interactions into spatially explicit cumulative impact assessments.Ecological applications : a publication of the Ecological Society of America · 2025Article
- Reconciling Variability in Multiple Stressor Effects Using Environmental Performance Curves.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Cumulative human impacts on global marine fauna highlight risk to biological and functional diversity.PloS one · 2024Article
- Changes in the Rhizosphere Prokaryotic Community Structure ofMicroorganisms · 2023Article
- Fluctuating fortunes: Stressor synchronicity and fluctuating intensity influence biological impacts.Ecology letters · 2022Article
- Net effect of environmental fluctuations in multiple global-change drivers across the tree of life.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2022Article
- Interactive effects of multiple stressors vary with consumer interactions, stressor dynamics and magnitude.Ecology letters · 2022Article
- Interactions among multiple stressors vary with exposure duration and biological response.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2022Article
- Species-Specific Trait Responses of Three Tropical Seagrasses to Multiple Stressors: The Case of Increasing Temperature and Nutrient Enrichment.Frontiers in plant science · 2020Article
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Abstract
Humans are placing more strain on the world's oceans than ever before. Furthermore, marine ecosystems are seldom subjected to single stressors, rather they are frequently exposed to multiple, concurrent stressors. When the combined effect of these stressors is calculated and mapped through cumulative impact assessments, it is often assumed that the effects are additive. However, there is increasing evidence that different combinations of stressors can have non-additive impacts, potentially leading to synergistic and unpredictable impacts on ecosystems. Accurately predicting how stressors interact is important in conservation, as removal of certain stressors could provide a greater benefit, or be more detrimental than would be predicted by an additive model. Here, we conduct a meta-analysis to assess the prevalence of additive, synergistic, and antagonistic stressor interaction effects using seagrasses as case study ecosystems. We found that additive interactions were the most commonly reported in seagrass studies. Synergistic and antagonistic interactions were also common, but there was no clear way of predicting where these non-additive interactions occurred. More studies which synthesise the results of stressor interactions are needed to be able to generalise interactions across ecosystem types, which can then be used to improve models for assessing cumulative impacts.
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