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Assessing the Health of the U.S. West Coast with a Regional-Scale Application of the Ocean Health Index

Creator:

Halpern, Benjamin S., Longo, Catherine, Scarborough, Courtney, Hardy, Darren, Best, Benjamin D., Doney, Scott C., Katona, Steven K., McLeod, Karen L., Rosenberg, Andrew A., and Samhouri, Jameal F.

Abstract:

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 of 100, with sub-regions...

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Article