Extending Vulnerability Assessment to Include Life Stages Considerations.

• Published in: PLOS ONE
• Main Authors: Emma E Hodgson, Timothy E Essington, Isaac C Kaplan
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2016
• Subjects: Medicine; R; Science; Q; Pacific; Hake; Limacina helicina; Ocean acidification
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.1371/journal.pone.0158917; https://doaj.org/article/4091511e43364c3aba15fa2989d37fd3

Species are experiencing a suite of novel stressors from anthropogenic activities that have impacts at multiple scales. Vulnerability assessment is one tool to evaluate the likely impacts that these stressors pose to species so that high-vulnerability cases can be identified and prioritized for moni...