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Charles H. Peterson
Researcher at University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
Publications - 203
Citations - 31164
Charles H. Peterson is an academic researcher from University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. The author has contributed to research in topics: Oyster & Population. The author has an hindex of 77, co-authored 202 publications receiving 28829 citations. Previous affiliations of Charles H. Peterson include National Ocean Service & Mote Marine Laboratory.
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Historical overfishing and the recent collapse of coastal ecosystems.
Jeremy B. C. Jackson,Jeremy B. C. Jackson,Michael Xavier Kirby,Wolfgang H Berger,Karen A. Bjorndal,Louis W. Botsford,Bruce J. Bourque,Roger Bradbury,Richard G. Cooke,Jon M. Erlandson,James A. Estes,Terry P. Hughes,Susan M. Kidwell,Carina B. Lange,Hunter S. Lenihan,John M. Pandolfi,Charles H. Peterson,Robert S. Steneck,Mia J. Tegner,Robert R. Warner +19 more
TL;DR: Paleoecological, archaeological, and historical data show that time lags of decades to centuries occurred between the onset of overfishing and consequent changes in ecological communities, because unfished species of similar trophic level assumed the ecological roles of over-fished species until they too were overfished or died of epidemic diseases related to overcrowding as mentioned in this paper.
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Depletion, Degradation, and Recovery Potential of Estuaries and Coastal Seas
Heike K. Lotze,Hunter S. Lenihan,Bruce J. Bourque,Roger Bradbury,Richard G. Cooke,Matthew C. Kay,Susan M. Kidwell,Michael Xavier Kirby,Charles H. Peterson,Jeremy B. C. Jackson,Jeremy B. C. Jackson +10 more
TL;DR: Reconstructed time lines, causes, and consequences of change in 12 once diverse and productive estuaries and coastal seas worldwide show similar patterns: Human impacts have depleted >90% of formerly important species, destroyed >65% of seagrass and wetland habitat, degraded water quality, and accelerated species invasions.
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The Report of the Ecological Society of America Committee on the Scientific Basis for Ecosystem Management
Norman L. Christensen,Ann M. Bartuska,James H. Brown,Stephen M Carpenter,Carla M. D'Antonio,Rober Francis,Jerry F. Franklin,James A. MacMahon,Reed F. Noss,David J. Parsons,Charles H. Peterson,Monica G. Turner,Robert G. Woodmansee +12 more
TL;DR: Ecosystem management is management driven by explicit goals, executed by policies, protocols, and practices, and made adaptable by monitoring and research based on our best understanding of the ecological interactions and processes necessary to sustain ecosystem composition, structure, and function as discussed by the authors.
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Long-Term Ecosystem Response to the Exxon Valdez Oil Spill
Charles H. Peterson,Stanley D. Rice,Jeffrey W. Short,Daniel Esler,James L. Bodkin,Brenda E. Ballachey,David B. Irons +6 more
TL;DR: The ecosystem response to the 1989 spill of oil from the Exxon Valdez into Prince William Sound, Alaska, shows that current practices for assessing ecological risks of oil in the oceans and, by extension, other toxic sources should be changed.
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Cascading effects of the loss of apex predatory sharks from a coastal ocean.
TL;DR: For example, this paper found that the abundance of all 11 great sharks that consume other elasmobranchs (rays, skates, and small sharks) fell over the past 35 years, while 12 of 14 of these prey species increased in coastal northwest Atlantic ecosystems.