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- Title
Managing for ocean biodiversity to sustain marine ecosystem services.
- Authors
Palumbi, Stephen R.; Sandifer, Paul A.; Allan, J. David; Beck, Michael W.; Fautin, Daphne G.; Fogarty, Michael J.; Halpern, Benjamin S.; Incze, Lewis S.; Leong, Jo-Ann; Norse, Elliott; Stachowicz, John J.; Wall, Diana H.
- Abstract
Managing a complex ecosystem to balance delivery of all of its services is at the heart of ecosystem-based management. But how can this balance be accomplished amidst the conflicting demands of stakeholders, managers, and policy makers? In marine ecosystems, several common ecological mechanisms link biodiversity to ecosystem functioning and to a complex of essential services. As a result, the effects of preserving diversity can be broadly beneficial to a wide spectrum of important ecosystem processes arid services, including fisheries, water quality, recreation, and shoreline protection. A management system that conserves diversity will help to accrue more "ecoservice capital" for human use and will maintain a hedge against unanticipated ecosystem changes from natural or anthropogenic causes. Although maintenance of biodiversity cannot be the only goal for ecosystem-based management, it could provide a common currency for evaluating the impacts of different human activities on ecosystem functioning and can act as a critical indicator of ecosystem status.
- Subjects
ECOSYSTEM management; ENVIRONMENTAL management; BIODIVERSITY conservation; ENVIRONMENTAL law; MARINE ecosystem management; MARINE biodiversity
- Publication
Frontiers in Ecology & the Environment, 2009, Vol 7, Issue 4, p204
- ISSN
1540-9295
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1890/070135