Anthropogenic environmental changes, or 'stressors', increasingly threaten biodiversity and
ecosystem functioning worldwide. Multiple-stressor research is a rapidly expanding field of …

Coastal zones, the world's most densely populated regions, are increasingly threatened by
climate change stressors—rising and warming seas, intensifying storms and droughts, and …

Climate and land-use change drive a suite of stressors that shape ecosystems and interact
to yield complex ecological responses (that is, additive, antagonistic and synergistic effects) …

In the 12 years since Dudgeon et al.(2006) reviewed major pressures on freshwater
ecosystems, the biodiversity crisis in the world's lakes, reservoirs, rivers, streams and …

The tropics contain the overwhelming majority of Earth's biodiversity: their terrestrial,
freshwater and marine ecosystems hold more than three-quarters of all species, including …

The ability of ecosystems to withstand disturbances and maintain their functions is being
increasingly tested as rates of change intensify due to climate change and other human …

Bioindication has become an indispensable part of water quality monitoring in most
countries of the world, with the presence and abundance of bioindicator taxa, mostly …

Interactions between multiple ecosystem stressors are expected to jeopardize biological
processes, functions and biodiversity. The scientific community has declared stressor …

Wildlife populations and their habitats are exposed to an expanding diversity and intensity of
stressors caused by human activities, within the broader context of natural processes and …

The accelerating rate of global change has focused attention on the cumulative impacts of
novel and extreme environmental changes (ie stressors), especially in marine ecosystems …