Selecting indicator portfolios for marine species and food webs: a Puget sound case study.

ABSTRACT: Ecosystem-based management (EBM) has emerged as a promising approach for maintaining the benefits humans want and need from the ocean, yet concrete approaches for implementing EBM remain scarce. A key challenge lies in the development of indicators that can provide useful information on ecosystem status and trends, and assess progress towards management goals. In this paper, we describe a generalized framework for the methodical and transparent selection of ecosystem indicators. We apply the framework to the second largest estuary in the United States - Puget Sound, Washington - where one of the most advanced EBM processes is currently underway. Rather than introduce a new method, this paper integrates a variety of familiar approaches into one step-by-step approach that will lead to more c

SUBMITTER: Kershner J 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3186776 | biostudies-literature | 2011

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature