TY - JOUR
AU1 - Cronin, T.
AU2 - Walker, H.
AB - RESTORING COASTAL ECOSYSTEMS AND ABRUPT CLIMATE CHANGE AN EDITORIAL ESSAY 1 2 T. M. CRONIN and H. A. WALKER 926A US Geological Survey National Center, Reston, Virginia 20192 USA E-mail: tcronin@usgs.gov Atlantic Ecology Division, Office of Research and Development, US Environmental Protection Agency, Narragansett, Rhode Island 02882 USA Consensus exists that U.S. coastal ecosystems are severely degraded due to a va- riety of human factors requiring large financial expenditures to restore and man- age (National Research Council, 2000). Yet, even as public controversy surrounds human factors in ecosystem degradation in the Gulf of Mexico (Ferber, 2004), Chesapeake Bay (Ernst, 2003; Thompson, 2004), and elsewhere, there is grow- ing evidence that long-term coastal ecosystem management and restoration efforts should integrate abrupt climate change, including human-induced change, into re- search and modeling programs. Abrupt climate change is a form of climate vari- ability involving a shift in climate across a threshold at a rate exceeding that of the cause (National Research Council, 2002), such as the Younger Dryas climate cooling that began and ended in a few decades during the last deglacial period ∼12.8–11.6 thousand years ago. Abrupt climate changes, however, also punctuate the Holocene interglacial period at various spatial and 
TI - Restoring Coastal Ecosystems and Abrupt Climate Change
JF - Climatic Change
DO - 10.1007/s10584-005-9029-7
DA - 2006-03-21
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/springer-journals/restoring-coastal-ecosystems-and-abrupt-climate-change-0er3Y0A8cY
SP - 369
EP - 376
VL - 74
IS - 4
DP - DeepDyve
ER -