Comment on "Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services".
Worm et al. (Research Articles, 3 November 2006, p. 787) investigated the importance of biodiversity to marine ecosystem services across temporal and spatial scales. In projecting the extent of future fisheries collapse, we argue that the authors inappropriately extrapolated beyond their available observations and used data on marine reserves and fishery closures that are not representative of global fisheries.
Hölker
Franz
F
European Commission, Directorate General Joint Research Centre, Institute for the Protection and Security of the Citizen, Agriculture and Fisheries Unit, TP 051, 21020, Italy. franz.hoelker@jrc.it
Beare
Doug
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Dörner
Hendrik
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di Natale
Antonio
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Rätz
Hans-Joachim
HJ
Temming
Axel
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Casey
John
J
D000818:Animals; D044822:Biodiversity; D003247:Conservation of Natural Resources; D017753:Ecosystem; D005398:Fisheries; D005399:Fishes; D005544:Forecasting; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D011157:Population Dynamics