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Melissa M. Foley Benjamin S. Halpern Fiorenza Micheli Matthew H. Armsby Margaret R. Caldwell Caitlin M. Crain Erin Prahler Nicole Rohr Deborah Sivas Michael W. Beck Mark H. Carr Larry B. Crowder J. Emmett Duffy Sally D. Hacker Karen L. McLeod Stephen R. Palumbi Charles H. Peterson Helen M. Regan Mary H. Ruckelshaus Paul A. Sandifer Robert S. Steneck 《Marine Policy》2010
The declining health of marine ecosystems around the world is evidence that current piecemeal governance is inadequate to successfully support healthy coastal and ocean ecosystems and sustain human uses of the ocean. One proposed solution to this problem is ecosystem-based marine spatial planning (MSP), which is a process that informs the spatial distribution of activities in the ocean so that existing and emerging uses can be maintained, use conflicts reduced, and ecosystem health and services protected and sustained for future generations. Because a key goal of ecosystem-based MSP is to maintain the delivery of ecosystem services that humans want and need, it must be based on ecological principles that articulate the scientifically recognized attributes of healthy, functioning ecosystems. These principles should be incorporated into a decision-making framework with clearly defined targets for these ecological attributes. This paper identifies ecological principles for MSP based on a synthesis of previously suggested and/or operationalized principles, along with recommendations generated by a group of twenty ecologists and marine scientists with diverse backgrounds and perspectives on MSP. The proposed four main ecological principles to guide MSP—maintaining or restoring: native species diversity, habitat diversity and heterogeneity, key species, and connectivity—and two additional guidelines, the need to account for context and uncertainty, must be explicitly taken into account in the planning process. When applied in concert with social, economic, and governance principles, these ecological principles can inform the designation and siting of ocean uses and the management of activities in the ocean to maintain or restore healthy ecosystems, allow delivery of marine ecosystem services, and ensure sustainable economic and social benefits. 相似文献
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Shifting nutrient limitation and eutrophication effects in marsh vegetation across estuarine salinity gradients 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Caitlin Mullan Crain 《Estuaries and Coasts》2007,30(1):26-34
In light of widespread coastal eutrophication, identifying which nutrients limit vegetation and the community consequences
when limitation is relaxed is critical to maintaining the health of estuarine marshes. Studies in temperate salt marshes have
generally identified nitrogen (N) as the primary limiting nutrient for marsh vegetation, but the limiting nutrient in low
salinity tidal marshes is unknown. I use a 3-yr nutrient addition experiment in mid elevation,Spartina patens dominated marshes that vary in salinity along two estuaries in southern Maine to examine variation in nutrient effects. Nutrient
limitation shifted across estuarine salinity gradients; salt and brackish marsh vegetation was N limited, while oligohaline
marsh vegetation was co-limited by N and phosphorus (P). Plant tissue analysis ofS. patens showed plants in the highest salinity marshes had the greatest percent N, despite N limitation, suggesting that N limitation
in salt marshes is partially driven by a high demand for N to aid in salinity tolerance. Fertilization had little effect on
species composition in monospecificS. patents stands of salt and brackish marshes, but N+P treatments in species-rich oligohaline marshes significantly altered community
composition, favoring dominance by high aboveground producing plants. Eutrophication by both N and P has the potential to
greatly reduce the characteristic high diversity of oligohaline marshes. Inputs of both nutrients in coastal watersheds must
be managed to protect the diversity and functioning of the full range of estuarine marshes. 相似文献
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Oil storage variability in Calanus finmarchicus 总被引:2,自引:0,他引:2
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