Development of an index system for evaluation of ecological carrying capacity of marine ecosystems

Ocean and Coastal Management

Volumn 144, Issue , 2017, Pages 23-30

  Ma, Panpan ^a   Ye, Guanqiong ^a   Peng, Xin ^b   Liu, Junfeng ^b   Qi, Jiaguo ^a,c   Jia, Shiguo ^d  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Zhejiang Mariculture Research Institute   (China)

^c MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Conceptual model; Ecological carrying capacity evaluation; Index; Marine ecosystems; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

AQUATIC ECOSYSTEMS; ECOLOGY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

CARRYING OBJECTS; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; ECOLOGICAL CARRYING CAPACITY; EVALUATION INDEX; INDEX; INDEX SYSTEMS; SYSTEMATIC EVALUATION;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CARRYING CAPACITY; CONCEPTUAL FRAMEWORK; INDEX METHOD; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

CHINA;

EID: 85019008770     PISSN: 09645691     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2017.04.012     Document Type: Article

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