Assessing the health of the U.S. west coast with a regional-scale application of the Ocean Health Index.

Management of marine ecosystems increasingly demands comprehensive and quantitative assessments of ocean health, but lacks a tool to do so. We applied the recently developed Ocean Health Index to assess ocean health in the relatively data-rich US west coast region. The overall region scored 71 out o...

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Main Authors: Benjamin S Halpern, Catherine Longo, Courtney Scarborough, Darren Hardy, Benjamin D Best, Scott C Doney, Steven K Katona, Karen L McLeod, Andrew A Rosenberg, Jameal F Samhouri
Format: article
Language:EN
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2014
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Online Access:https://doaj.org/article/395d6be9b72f43f6ad9d2adf0b9fc062
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