An ecosystem services perspective for the oceanic eastern tropical Pacific: commercial fisheries, carbon storage, recreational fishing, and biodiversity

The ocean provides ecosystem services (ES) that support humanity. Traditional single-issue management largely failed to protect the full suite of ES. Ecosystem-based management (EBM) promotes resilient social-ecological systems that provide ES. To implement EBM, an ES approach is useful: 1) characte...

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Main Authors: Summer Lynn Martin, Lisa Taylor Ballance, Theodore eGroves
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2016-04-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
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Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/Journal/10.3389/fmars.2016.00050/full