The rapidly evolving ocean economy, driven by human needs for food, energy,
transportation and recreation, has led to unprecedented pressures on the ocean that are …

The paper aims to identify the gaps in the assessment and modeling of ecosystem services
to help researchers, resource managers, and decision-makers develop a holistic …

Vegetation change and anthropogenic development are altering ecosystems and
decreasing biodiversity. Successful management of ecosystems threatened by multiple …

A central challenge for natural resource management is develo** rigorous yet practical
approaches for balancing the costs and benefits of diverse human uses of ecosystems …

Growing concern for the world's shark and ray populations is driving the need for greater
research to inform conservation management. A change in public perception, from one that …

In recent years, the environmental crisis affecting the planet has caused the deterioration of
the oceans and a great loss of biodiversity. In response to these changes, the quantity and …

People around the world are looking to marine ecosystems to provide additional benefits to
society. As they consider expanding current uses and investing in new ones, new …

This viewpoint paper explores the potential of genomics technology to provide accurate,
rapid, and cost efficient observations of the marine environment. The use of such …

Much ecosystem service (ES) research is structured around four often implicit assumptions
about ES, benefits, and stakeholders' conceptions of these: 1) ES assessors can identify and …

Governance across the land-sea interface is an emerging challenge. The propensity for, and
intensity of social-ecological interactions across this interface (eg, eutrophication …