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Marine Biology Question- What is an "anthropogenic stressor"?

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In coastal areas anthropogenic stressors are progresively altering conditions and influencing essential habitats. But, if multiple stressors act concurrently, their effects on ecosystems become hard to know. In USA, Chesapeake Bay estimation indicate that from climate change, anthropogenic stressors such as increasing temperatures, may accelerate the frequency as well as storm severity, leading to accelerate freshwater, nutrient, also inputs of sediment. Another anthropogenic stressors source is a Coastal development, regularly accelerate with growing coastal populations, and cause change in characteristics of sediment, altered food webs, loss of vegetated habitats and habitat fragmentation . Community processes may affect with stressors, such as, propagules  immigration between habitat patches may change diversity, also reconstruct response of community to stressors. change might modify functioning of ecosystem and services, but different ecosystems may be more firm mainly in the multiple stressors face. Anthropogenic stressors leads to vulnerable habitats, contains seagrass systems, that facilitate many valuable services of an ecosystem.