Incorporating stressor interactions into spatially explicit cumulative impact assessments.

Human-induced stressors are impacting the oceans and reducing the biodiversity of marine ecosystems. The many stressors affecting marine environments do not act in isolation. However, their cumulative impact is difficult to predict.

Evaluation of a popular spatial cumulative impact assessment method for marine systems: A seagrass case study.

Human activities put stress on our oceans and with a growing global population, the impact is increasing. Stressors rarely act in isolation, with the majority of marine areas being impacted by multiple, concurrent stressors. Marine spatial cumulative impact assessments attempt to estimate the collective impact of multiple stressors on marine environments.

A meta-analysis of multiple stressors on seagrasses in the context of marine spatial cumulative impacts assessment.

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.