Supporting Risk Assessment: Accounting for Indirect Risk to Ecosystem Components.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Cathryn Clarke Murray, Megan E Mach, Rebecca G Martone, Gerald G Singh, Miriam O, Kai M A Chan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; British Columbia; Canada; Pacific; Orca
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0162932; https://doaj.org/article/0b2cf1ac284645739b6e99ac8f8a435e

The multi-scalar complexity of social-ecological systems makes it challenging to quantify impacts from human activities on ecosystems, inspiring risk-based approaches to assessments of potential effects of human activities on valued ecosystem components. Risk assessments do not commonly include the...