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Managing for ocean biodiversity to sustain marine ecosystem services

Stephen R Palumbi

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Department of Biology, Stanford University, Hopkins Marine Station, Pacific Grove, CA

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Paul A Sandifer

NOAA Hollings Marine Laboratory, Charleston, SC

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J David Allan

School of Natural Resources and Environment, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, MI

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Michael W Beck

The Nature Conservancy, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA

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Daphne G Fautin

Division of Biological Sciences, University of Kansas, Lawrence, KS

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Michael J Fogarty

NOAA Northeast Fisheries Science Center, Woods Hole, MA

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Benjamin S Halpern

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA

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Lewis S Incze

Aquatic Systems Group, University of Southern Maine, Portland, ME

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Jo-Ann Leong

Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kaneohe, HI

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Elliott Norse

Marine Conservation Biology Institute, Bellevue, WA

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John J Stachowicz

Department of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, Davis, CA

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Diana H Wall

Department of Biology and Natural Resource Ecology Laboratory, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO

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First published: 18 September 2008
Cited by: 110

Abstract

Managing a complex ecosystem to balance delivery of all of its services is at the heart of ecosystem‐based management. But how can this balance be accomplished amidst the conflicting demands of stakeholders, managers, and policy makers? In marine ecosystems, several common ecological mechanisms link biodiversity to ecosystem functioning and to a complex of essential services. As a result, the effects of preserving diversity can be broadly beneficial to a wide spectrum of important ecosystem processes and services, including fisheries, water quality, recreation, and shoreline protection. A management system that conserves diversity will help to accrue more “ecoservice capital” for human use and will maintain a hedge against unanticipated ecosystem changes from natural or anthropogenic causes. Although maintenance of biodiversity cannot be the only goal for ecosystem‐based management, it could provide a common currency for evaluating the impacts of different human activities on ecosystem functioning and can act as a critical indicator of ecosystem status.

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