Biological traits offer valuable approaches to understand species distributions and
underlying mechanisms. Their use has received a growing interest in marine community …

Rapid anthropogenic climate change is a major threat to ocean biodiversity, increasing the
challenge for marine conservation. Strategic conservation planning, and more recently …

The ocean plays a critical role in supporting human well-being, from providing food,
livelihoods and recreational opportunities to regulating the global climate. Sustainable …

There is growing interest in assessing the effects of changing environmental conditions and
management actions on human wellbeing. A challenge is to translate social science …

There is a multitude of ecosystem service classifications available within the literature, each
with its own advantages and drawbacks. Elements of them have been used to tailor a …

The advent of an ecosystem‐based approach dramatically expanded the scope of fisheries
management, creating a critical need for new kinds of data and quantitative approaches that …

Abstract The UN System of Environmental-Economic Accounting Ecosystem Accounting
(SEEA EA) aims at regular and standardised stocktaking of the extent of ecosystems, their …

Abstract Modern approaches to Ecosystem-Based Management and sustainable use of
marine resources must account for the myriad of pressures (interspecies, human and …

Ecosystem-based management (EBM) has emerged as a basic approach for managing
human activities in marine ecosystems, with the aim of recovering and conserving marine …

Regime shifts have been observed in marine ecosystems around the globe. These
phenomena can result in dramatic changes in the provision of ecosystem services to coastal …