Assessing the health of the U.S. West Coast with a regional-scale application of the ocean health index

PLoS ONE

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Halpern, Benjamin S ^a,b,c   Longo, Catherine ^a   Scarborough, Courtney ^a   Hardy, Darren ^a,i   Best, Benjamin D ^a   Doney, Scott C ^d   Katona, Steven K ^e   McLeod, Karen L ^f   Rosenberg, Andrew A ^g   Samhouri, Jameal F ^h  

^a NATIONAL CENTER FOR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS AND SYNTHESIS   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e Betty and Gordon Moore Center for Science and Oceans   (United States)

^f OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNION OF CONCERNED SCIENTISTS   (United States)

^h NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; DECISION MAKING; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FISHING; HUMAN; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NAMED INVENTORIES, QUESTIONNAIRES AND RATING SCALES; OCEAN HEALTH INDEX; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; RECREATION; SCORING SYSTEM; SEA; TOURISM; UNITED STATES; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; PACIFIC OCEAN; WATER QUALITY;

CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC STATES; WATER QUALITY;

EID: 84903289500     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0098995     Document Type: Article

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