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Donald F. Boesch
Researcher at University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science
Publications - 79
Citations - 11697
Donald F. Boesch is an academic researcher from University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science. The author has contributed to research in topics: Hypoxia (environmental) & Estuary. The author has an hindex of 36, co-authored 78 publications receiving 10622 citations. Previous affiliations of Donald F. Boesch include University of Queensland & Virginia Institute of Marine Science.
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Dependence of Fishery Species on Salt Marshes: The Role of Food and Refuge
TL;DR: The limited observations available support the hypothesis that salt marshes offer significant escape from mortality due to predation, but there have been yet few experimental tests of this hypothesis.
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The Function of Marine Critical Transition Zones and the Importance of Sediment Biodiversity
Lisa A. Levin,Donald F. Boesch,Alan P. Covich,Cliff Dahm,Christer Erséus,Katherine C. Ewel,Ronald T. Kneib,Andy Moldenke,Margaret A. Palmer,Paul V. R. Snelgrove,David L. Strayer,Jan Marcin Węsławski +11 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors hypothesized that diversity is indeed important to ecosystem function in marine CTZs because high diversity maintains positive interactions among species (facilitation and mutualism), promoting stability and resistance to invasion or other forms of disturbance.
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Hypoxia in the northern Gulf of Mexico: Does the science support the Plan to Reduce, Mitigate, and Control Hypoxia?
Nancy N. Rabalais,R.E. Turner,B.K. Sen Gupta,Donald F. Boesch,Piers Chapman,Michael C. Murrell +5 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors update and reevaluate the scientific information on the distribution, history, and causes of continental shelf hypoxia that supports the 2001 Action Plan for Reducing, Mitigating, and Controlling Hypoxia in the Northern Gulf of Mexico (Mississippi River/Gulf of Mexico Watershed Nutrient Task Force 2001).
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Challenges and opportunities for science in reducing nutrient over-enrichment of coastal ecosystems
TL;DR: The effects of nutrient over-enrichment on coastal ecosystems have been extensively documented and studied as discussed by the authors, and the consequences of this eutrophication have been also felt over large areas of semi-enclosed seas including the Baltic, North, Adriatic, and Black Seas in Europe, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Seto Inland Sea in Japan.
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Principles for Sustainable Governance of the Oceans
Robert Costanza,Francisco H. Andrade,Paula Antunes,Marjan van den Belt,Dee Boersma,Donald F. Boesch,Fernando Catarino,Susan Hanna,Karin E. Limburg,Bobbi S. Low,Michael Molitor,João G. Pereira,Steve Rayner,Rui Santos,James Wilson,Michael A. Young +15 more
TL;DR: Six core principles are proposed to guide governance and use of ocean resources and to promote sustainability and examples of governance structures that embody these principles are given.