Paul DaytonProfessor, Scripps Institute of OceanographyEcological Rachets and Ecosystem Resilience
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Ecological ratchets refer to human impacts on the environment that result in ecosystem changes beyond the normal capacity of the ecosystems to recover. A precautionary ecosystem based management needs to understand these thresholds well enough to preserve the critical ecological relationships.
Dayton, P. K. 1998. Reversal of the burden of proof in fisheries management. Science 279(5352):821.
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