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May 27, 2009
Most efforts to alleviate harmful effects to beleaguered ocean waters tend to focus on just one or two causes at a time, such as overfishing or sewage dumping. But in real life, scores of factors interact, sometimes in unexpected ways, to create the status quo.In order to better understand the total picture, researchers from California and Hawaii have analyzed 25 factors and developed a map that reflects the relative cumulative magnitude of their effects on the waters extending for about 250-350 miles off the shores of Washington, Oregon, California, and the Baja Peninsula. They announced their final results on May 11, 2009, following early online publication April 17, 2009, in the journal Conservation Letters:
- "Mapping Cumulative Human Impacts to California Current Marine Ecosystems": Release (includes numerous contacts) and journal article.
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