Good Environmental Status of marine ecosystems: what is it and how do we know when we have attained it?

By Á. Borja, Michael Elliott, J. Andersen, Ana Cristina Cardoso, J. Carstensen, J. Ferreira, A. Heiskanen, Joao Marques, J. Neto, H. Teixeira and 3 more. Marine Pollution Bulletin, 2013

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Mapping ecosystem services provided by benthic habitats in the European North Atlantic Ocean (2014, background): “…there is a key goal of maintaining the delivery of ecosystem services, which must be based upon ecological principles that articulate the scientifically-recognized attributes of healthy functioning ecosystems (Foley et al., 2010), as required by the MSFD (Borja et al., 2013; Tett et al., 2013).”
Tales from a thousand and one ways to integrate marine ecosystem components when assessing the environmental status (2014, methodology): “A simple version of a decision tree involves only having a few conditional rules where a specific proportion or certain individually specified indicators have to achieve good status in order to achieve GEnS. Borja et al. (2013) implicitly propose using this kind of decision tree when they take the v”