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In our opinion the next 10 to 20 years will be instrumental to put into
practice this knowledge on the broad spectrum of impacts affecting the
coastal zone. Considering the non-linearities that arise from the interactions
among multiple environmental stressors is of paramount importance
(Beardall et al. 2009, Wootton et al. 2008) and so we believe that now is
the time to move on to the next phase in global change research and start
looking into the synergistic effects of multiple stressors (Boesch 2002,
Cloern 2001).
Finally, it is of utmost importance that the key human actors (i.e., the
general public, the scientifi c community, policy makers, and politicians
and decision makers; Fig. 2) establish close relationships among each other
and attain a common objective of environmental policy reinforcement
and education. Such strategy needs urgent implementation if we are to
ameliorate the impacts of global change on coastal marine ecosystems.
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