Integrated Ecosystem Assessments: Developing the Scientific Basis for Ecosystem-Based Management of the Ocean

By P. Levin, Michael Fogarty, Steven A. Murawski, D. Fluharty. PLoS Biology, 2009

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Integrated ecosystem assessments challenge the broader scientific community to move beyond the important task of tallying insults to marine ecosystems to developing quantitative tools that can support the decisions national and regional resource managers must make.

Subfields: Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law, Oceanography

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Towards ecosystem-based management: identifying operational food-web indicators for marine ecosystems (2017, background): “For example, EBM is central to NOAA’s Integrated Ecosystem Assessments (IEAs: Levin et al., 2009), Fisheries and Oceans Canada has implemented aspects of EBM in the Canada Oceans Act (Curran et al., 2012), there has been a strong shift towards EBM in Australian fisheries driven by a number of…”
Ocean's eleven: a critical evaluation of the role of population, evolutionary and molecular genetics in the management of wild fisheries (2015, background): “Why is it important to fisheries management? As fisheries managers increasingly adopt the principles of ecosystem-based management, tools to monitor the interactions between fisheries and the environment are more in demand (Levin et al. 2009).”
The northeast US application of ATLANTIS: A full system model exploring marine ecosystem dynamics in a living marine resource management context (2010, methodology): “Beyond the heuristic value of this exercise, we also note that, as constructed, this application has the potential for being used in a wide range of management situations, embracing the EBM concept fully (Plagányi, 2007; Levin et al., 2009).”
Comparison of morphological and DNA metabarcoding analyses of diets in exploited marine fishes (2015, background): “As a result, tools to monitor the complex and diverse interactions between fisheries and the environment are more in demand (Levin et al. 2009).”
ICES meets marine historical ecology: placing the history of fish and fisheries in current policy context (2016, background): “The importance of “bottom–up” governance to complement the traditional “top–down” policies is being increasingly recognized (Levin et al., 2009).”
DNA Sequencing as a Tool to Monitor Marine Ecological Status (2017, background): “The goal is to protect and maintain natural ecological function while delivering ecosystem services and societal benefits (Levin et al., 2009; Elliott, 2011).”
Dynamic ocean management: Defining and conceptualizing real-time management of the ocean (2015, positive): “…incorporating trade-off analyses [59] and management strategy ) % d i ff e r e n c e b e t w ee n s t a t i c a n d d y n a m i c evaluations [60] into dynamic management responses will result in better and more rapid on-the-ground responses that can further balance ecological and economic…”
Marine top predators as climate and ecosystem sentinels (2019, background): “The importance of scale highlights the need to consider a suite of metrics from multiple ecosystem components to obtain a more holistic view of ecosystem response to ocean and climate variability (Levin et al. 2009).”
Ecosystem-based marine spatial management: Review of concepts, policies, tools, and critical issues (2011, background): “In recent years much has been written on the scientific concepts and principles of EB-MSM (Levin et al., 2009) and the various difficulties in implementing those (Arkema et al., 2006; Tallis et al., 2010).”
The meaning of the term ‘function’ in ecology: A coral reef perspective (2018, background): “For many systems, 253 including coral reefs, it is now recognized that maintaining ecosystem functions and services 254 will require a focus on holistic ecosystem- or resilience-based management paradigms (e.g. 255 Levin et al. 2009; Graham et al. 2013; Hughes et al. 2017a).”
Lessons learned from developing integrated ecosystem assessments to inform marine ecosystem-based management in the USA (2014, methodology): “IEAs require indicators that capture key ecosystem and socio-economic states and processes (Levin et al., 2009), and a number of frameworks exist to rigorously determine an indicator set (e.g. Methratta and Link, 2006; Shin et al., 2010a, b; Kershner et al., 2011; James et al., 2012).”