Defining ecologically, geographically, and politically coherent boundaries for the Northern Gulf of Mexico coastal region: Facilitating ecosystem-based management

Oakley, Jenny W.; Lawing, A. Michelle; Guillen, George J.; Gelwick, Frances P.

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2017.12.019

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“…It allows decision makers in a variety of governance settings to apply the indices. EBM approaches are typically emerging as processes of regional governance, urging cooperation and integration across actors representing most diverse public and private institutions as well as governance scales (Giebels et al, 2013;van Leeuwen et al, 2014;Soma et al, 2015;Oakley et al, 2018). Hence it is important to develop indices that can speak to a variety of governance levels.…”

Section: Ecological Network Analysis (Ena): a Promising Methods For A Holistic Ecological Perspective Under Contemporary European Directimentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The call for integrated or holistic approaches and ecosystem-based management (EBM) to the governance of our marine ecosystems is wellknown and well-established (de Jonge, 2003(de Jonge, , 2007Borja et al, 2010;UNEP, 2011;Katsanevakis et al, 2011;de Jonge et al, 2012;Rodriguez, 2017;Oakley et al, 2018). The EBM philosophy stresses the necessity for decision makers to understand and decide upon entire ecosystems (Curtin and Prellezo, 2010) instead of food web subsets (de Jonge et al, accepted B) or independent species.…”

Section: The Ecosystem-based Approach For the Management Of Marine Ecosystemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

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Vitamine ENA: A framework for the development of ecosystem-based indicators for decision makers

Safi

Giebels

Arroyo

et al. 2019

Ocean & Coastal Management

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The Water Framework Directive (article 2, paragraph 21) as well as the Marine Strategy Framework Directive (MSFD, Descriptor 4) stress the need for assessing the quality of the structure and the functioning of ecosystems. The MSFD also underlines the urgent need for development, testing, and validation of ecosystem state indicators. Holistic function-based criteria and indicators as provided by Ecological Network Analysis (ENA) could be used to define and assess the 'Good Environmental Status' of marine ecosystems. This approach also feeds Ecosystem Based Management (EBM). ENA generally analyses the fluxes' quality of a single medium such as here the carbon fluxes in a food web and produces a number of useful metrics that indicate, inter alia, the total carbon flow through the system, the quality of the functioning of the system or the trophic efficiency of system. A short list of indices [i.e. Detritivory over Herbivory ratio (D/H), Connectance Index (CI), Transfer Efficiency (TE) over trophic levels, System Omnivory Index (SOI), Finn's Cycling Index (FCI), relative Redundancy (R/DC), Average Mutual Information (AMI) and Interaction Strength (IS)] is proposed for practical use. This paper presents a first framework for OSPAR Regional Sea Convention food web indicators based on ENA. These are presented here focusing on their applicability and what is needed for implementation, illustrating their potential use by case studies.

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Section: Ecological Network Analysis (Ena): a Promising Methods For A Holistic Ecological Perspective Under Contemporary European Directimentioning

confidence: 99%

Section: The Ecosystem-based Approach For the Management Of Marine Ecosystemsmentioning

confidence: 99%

Vitamine ENA: A framework for the development of ecosystem-based indicators for decision makers

Safi

Giebels

Arroyo

et al. 2019

Ocean & Coastal Management

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“…Through the factor analysis of cell-based ecosystem service maps showing different indicators, two main types of ecosystems, mountains and flatlands, were extracted. Synergetic (e.g., underground water and carbon; farms, CO2, and erosion) and trade-off (e.g., rice paddies vs. underground water and carbon; scenic quality vs. farms, CO2, and erosion) relationships between the two ecosystem service types (mountains and agriculture) and their boundaries were identified, providing one method of finding the main ecosystems and boundaries that are often discussed theoretically (Banks-Leite & Ewers, 2009;Prieto-Torres & Rojas-Soto, 2016;Saunders & Briggs, 2002); beyond administrative districts (Haines-Young, Potschin, & Kienast, 2012;Hamann, Biggs, & Reyers, 2015;Jopke et al, 2015;Oakley et al, 2018;Queiroz et al, 2015;Raudsepp-Hearne, C, Peterson, & Bennett, 2010;Schulp et al, 2014). These results are consistent with previous studies that have grouped items and shown ecosystem service synergies and trade-offs, and examined how the corresponding areas were distributed in space (Früh-Müller et al, 2016;Qiu & Turner, 2013).…”

Section: Factor Analysismentioning

confidence: 99%

“…& Arnhold, 2018;Kim, I. et al, 2017;Li & Wang, 2018;Lin et al, 2018;White, Halpern, & Kappel, 2012). Therefore, several researchers have attempted to create ecosystem service maps and identify correlations, but their studies have focused only on cultural services (Plieninger et al, 2013) or were limited to administrative districts (Haines-Young, Potschin, & Kienast, 2012;Hamann, Biggs, & Reyers, 2015;Jopke et al, 2015;Oakley et al, 2018;Queiroz et al, 2015;Raudsepp-Hearne, C, Peterson, & Bennett, 2010;Schulp et al, 2014;Yang et al, 2015). Such studies are limited in their ability to identify spatial boundaries based on the microscopic flow of overall ecosystem services in order to create a useful foundation for local policymaking.…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Boundary Setting for Ecosystem Services by Factor Analysis

Lee

Kim²,

Kim³

et al. 2019

IRSPSD International

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Ecosystem service assessment maps are an important form of data, showing the flow and characteristics of ecosystem services. However, there has been a lack of research on the spatial boundaries of synergetic and trade-off relationships among different types of ecosystem services based on the microscopic characteristics of ecosystem maps. Therefore, the boundaries of ecosystems were identified in this study using factor analysis of indicators in ecosystem service maps. Ecosystems were mapped for each indicator in each cell, and then factor analysis was used to combine all indicators into one map. Analysis of Seocheon in central South Korea shows the boundaries of two ecosystem types: a mountainous region with abundant underground water and carbon stocks that lack rice paddies, and flatlands with high crop production and a lack of scenic views. The spatial types of ecosystems in which synergy and trade-offs occur were identified by indicator, and these can be used as evidentiary material for spatial planning in order to maximize the function of each ecosystem service.

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“…Even though there is not always agreement in the direction marine and coastal management should take, the need for improvement of convectional management practices is clear and consensual, specifically through the better acknowledge and incorporation of biodiversity, trade-offs, complexity of social-ecological systems, and stakeholders' concerns and expectations [9][10][11]. Any strategy designed to address these issues and to follow an ecosystem-based management approach requires the understanding of social and ecological processes and their relationships [12,13].…”

Section: Introductionmentioning

confidence: 99%

Ecosystem Service Mapping: A Management-Oriented Approach to Support Environmental Planning Process

Sousa¹,

Lillebø²,

Alves³

2018

Ecosystem Services and Global Ecology

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Effective integration of ecosystem services (ESs) into spatial planning and decision-making processes has been advocated as an opportunity to improve current practices and to promote sustainable development. However, the actual uptake of ecosystem services is still challenging, in part due to the complexity of ES studies, data scarcity, and ES compartmentalization, and so on. This chapter presents a case of mapping and characterizing coastal ecosystem services in a way that deals with these issues in order to facilitate its integration in the decision-making and planning process. It gives an insight into which ESs are currently provided in Ria de Aveiro coastal region (Portugal), how are they distributed in space, and identifies multifunctional areas. We argue that the use of existing and available data, as well as tools and approaches that are similar to those used in spatial planning, notwithstanding its limitations, has the potential for bridging science and decision-making spheres. ES-related information could be thus gradually incorporated in the design of local strategies towards sustainable and transparent planning and management processes.[1-3] and, consequently, are regions where human presence and activity is especially intense

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Defining ecologically, geographically, and politically coherent boundaries for the Northern Gulf of Mexico coastal region: Facilitating ecosystem-based management

Cited by 4 publications

References 31 publications

Vitamine ENA: A framework for the development of ecosystem-based indicators for decision makers

Vitamine ENA: A framework for the development of ecosystem-based indicators for decision makers

Boundary Setting for Ecosystem Services by Factor Analysis

Ecosystem Service Mapping: A Management-Oriented Approach to Support Environmental Planning Process

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