Climate change (CC) is a key, global driver of change of marine ecosystems. At local and
regional scales, other local human stressors (LS) can interact with CC and modify its effects …

Cumulative impacts increasingly threaten marine and coastal ecosystems. To address this
issue, the research community has invested efforts on designing and testing different …

Marine ecosystems are under high demand for human use, giving concerns about how
pressures from human activities may affect their structure, function, and status. In Europe …

The objectives of this study are 1) to map the potential cumulative impacts of multiple human
activities and stressors on the ecosystems in the transition zone between the North Sea and …

Oceans and coasts provide important ecosystem, livelihood, and cultural values to humans
and the planet but face current and future compounding threats from anthropogenic activities …

The implementation of marine spatial plans as required by the Directive on Maritime Spatial
Planning (MSP) of the European Union (EU) poses novel demands for the development of …

Coastal ecosystems are becoming increasingly threatened by human activities and there is
growing appreciation that management must consider the impacts of multiple stressors …

Humans have observed the natural world and how people interact with it for millennia. Over
the past century, synthesis and expansion of that understanding has occurred under the …

Integrated management (IM) has been widely proposed, but difficult to achieve in practice,
and there remains the need for evaluation of examples that illustrate the practical issues that …

Anthropogenic activities have transformed the pelagic habitat in the last decades with
profound implications for its essential functions. While the EU-Marine Strategy Framework …