Best practices for assessing ocean health inmultiple contexts using tailorable frameworks

PeerJ

Volumn 2015, Issue 12, 2015, Pages

  Stewart Lowndes, Julia S ^a   Pacheco, Erich J ^b   Best, Benjamin D ^c   Scarborough, Courtney ^a   Longo, Catherine ^d   Katona, Steven K ^b   Halpern, Benjamin S ^a,e,f  

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

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

^c DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Science and Standards Department   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f IMPERIAL COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Ecosystem based management; Marine assessments; Open science

Indexed keywords

CONSENSUS DEVELOPMENT; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEM; GOVERNMENT; HUMAN; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEA;

EID: 84951050538     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21678359     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.7717/peerj.1503     Document Type: Article

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