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A Conceptual Framework for Integrated Ecosystem Assessment [PDF]

One Ecosystem, 2018
This short communication presents an ecosystem assessment framework developed within ESMERALDA; a Horizon2020-funded EU project aimed at delivering a ‘flexible methodology’ to assist towards pan-European and regional Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystem ...
Claire Brown, Abigail Burns, Andy Arnell   +2 more
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Integrated ecosystem assessment: Lake Ontario water management. [PDF]

PLoS ONE, 2008
BACKGROUND: Ecosystem management requires organizing, synthesizing, and projecting information at a large scale while simultaneously addressing public interests, dynamic ecological properties, and a continuum of physicochemical conditions.
Mark B Bain, Nuanchan Singkran, Katherine E Mills   +2 more
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Scoping an integrated ecosystem assessment for South Africa

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
The need to move toward marine ecosystem-based management is globally recognized. Few countries effectively account for multiple interacting pressures in their marine assessments, planning and management.
Lisa Skein, Lisa Skein, Kerry J. Sink, Kerry J. Sink, Prideel A. Majiedt, Megan G. van der Bank, Kaylee P. Smit, Kaylee P. Smit, Lynne J. Shannon   +8 more
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An operational framework for integrated Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) [PDF]

One Ecosystem, 2018
Mapping and Assessment of Ecosystems and their Services (MAES) are central to the EU Biodiversity Strategy to 2020. Action 5 of the Strategy’s second target asks all EU member states to map and assess the state of ecosystems and their services in their ...
Benjamin Burkhard, Fernando Santos-Martin, Stoyan Nedkov, Joachim Maes   +3 more
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Conditions of Mainland China’s Island Ecosystems and Associated Influencing Factors: Integrated Assessment of 42 Typical Island Ecosystems

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022
Although China possesses a large number of islands, knowledge of their overall ecological condition is limited on a national scale. Accordingly, this study developed a comprehensive and quantitative island ecosystem assessment framework that incorporates
Zhiyuan Ma, Zhiyuan Ma, Weiwei Yu, Weiwei Yu, Wanting Zhang, Wanting Zhang, Feiyang Ge, Bin Chen, Bin Chen, Wenjia Hu, Wenjia Hu, Dian Zhang, Jianji Liao, Jianji Liao, Hao Huang, Hao Huang, Yuanmin Sun, Yuanmin Sun, Haiping Huang   +18 more
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Managing estuaries for ecosystem function

Global Ecology and Conservation, 2020
Estuary management is limited by lack of consensus on operational tools for handling multiple conflicting management objectives. One critical step to this goal is a shift from individual problems to a focus on maintaining ecosystem functions that benefit
R.S. Fulford, M. Russell, J.D. Hagy, III, D. Breitburg   +3 more
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Evidence of climate‐driven regime shifts in the Aegean Sea’s demersal resources: A study spanning six decades

Ecology and Evolution, 2021
Climate change (CC) can alter the configuration of marine ecosystems; however, ecosystem response and resilience to change are usually case‐specific. The effect of CC on the demersal resources of the Aegean Sea (east Mediterranean Sea) was investigated ...
Dimitrios Damalas, Vasiliki Sgardeli, Paraskevas Vasilakopoulos, Georgios Tserpes, Christos Maravelias   +4 more
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Operationalising ODEMM risk assessment for Integrated Ecosystem Assessment scoping: Complexity vs. manageability

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023
Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEA) require consideration of the full suite of pressures and impacts affecting ecosystems. However, capacity limitations often severely limit our ability to do everything that we want or ‘should’ do, outside of short ...
Debbi Pedreschi, Susa Niiranen, Mette Skern-Mauritzen, David G. Reid   +3 more
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Improving Representation of Human Well-Being and Cultural Importance in Conceptualizing the West Hawai‘i Ecosystem

Frontiers in Marine Science, 2019
Ecosystem-based management approaches are increasingly used to address the critical linkages between human and biophysical systems. Yet, many of the social-ecological systems (SES) frameworks typically used in coastal and marine management neither ...
Kirsten M. Leong, Supin Wongbusarakum, Supin Wongbusarakum, Rebecca J. Ingram, Rebecca J. Ingram, Alexander Mawyer, Melissa R. Poe   +6 more
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Framework for Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (FIEA): A structured approach to support evidence-based decision-making [PDF]

One Ecosystem
While numerous ecosystem assessment frameworks have been developed, they often provide valuable insights into and guidelines for assessments from siloed perspectives, addressing ecosystem assessments primarily through research, public-sector, private ...
Sabine Lange, Joana Seguin, Emily Bank, Luke Brander, Martine van Weelden, Lisa Heine, Graeme Nicholls, Paula Rendon, Fernando Santos, Slavena Peneva, Raya Ganeva, Gabriela Popova, Davide Geneletti, Jarumi Kato-Huerta, Chiara Cortinovis, David Barton, Sylvie Clappe, Graciela Rusch, Inge Liekens, Claire Brown, Nicolas Grondard, Stoyan Nedkov, Vince van ‘t Hoff, Julia Wentworth, Benjamin Burkhard   +24 more
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