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- Title
The role of marine habitat mapping in ecosystem-based management.
- Authors
Cogan, Christopher B.; Todd, Brian J.; Lawton, Peter; Noji, Thomas T.
- Abstract
Cogan, C. B., Todd, B. J., Lawton, P., and Noji, T. T. 2009. The role of marine habitat mapping in ecosystem-based management. – ICES Journal of Marine Science, 66: 2033–2042.Ecosystem-based management (EBM) and the related concept of large marine ecosystems (LMEs) are sometimes criticized as being too broad for many management and research applications. At the same time, there is a great need to develop more effectively some substantive scientific methods to empower EBM. Marine habitat mapping (MHM) is an example of an applied set of field methods that support EBM directly and contribute essential elements for conducting integrated ecosystem assessments. This manuscript places MHM practices in context with biodiversity models and EBM. We build the case for MHM being incorporated as an explicit and early process following initial goal-setting within larger EBM programmes. Advances in MHM and EBM are dependent on evolving technological and modelling capabilities, conservation targets, and policy priorities within a spatial planning framework. In both cases, the evolving and adaptive nature of these sciences requires explicit spatial parameters, clear objectives, combinations of social and scientific considerations, and multiple parameters to assess overlapping viewpoints and ecosystem functions. To examine the commonalities between MHM and EBM, we also address issues of implicit and explicit linkages between classification, mapping, and elements of biodiversity with management goals. Policy objectives such as sustainability, ecosystem health, or the design of marine protected areas are also placed in the combined MHM–EBM context.
- Subjects
AQUATIC habitats; CARTOGRAPHY; ECOSYSTEM management; BIODIVERSITY; HABITATS; MARINE parks &; reserves
- Publication
ICES Journal of Marine Science / Journal du Conseil, 2009, Vol 66, Issue 9, p2033
- ISSN
1054-3139
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1093/icesjms/fsp214