Background materials and preparatory tasks

For January 2005 working group meeting

Background materials

The following references are provided as background material on marine ecosystem-based management in general and on the California Current system, the proposed focus of our EBM case study. Please read or skim them before the working group.

Package A - Ecosystem-based management of marine coastal ecosystems

Guerry, Anne D. 2005. Icarus and Daedalus: conceptual and tactical lessons for marine ecosystem-based management. Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 3(4): 202-211.

National Research Council. 2004. Valuing ecosystem services: toward better environmental decision-making: Executive summary. National Academies Press.

Plus see other documents sent under previous email cover

Package B - The California Current ecosystem

California Marine Life Protection Act Initiative Central Coast Regional Profile and Appendices, September 19, 2005

Halpin, Patricia, P. Ted Strub, William T. Peterson, and Tim R. Baumgartner. 2004. An overview of interactions among oceanography, marine ecosystems, climatic and human disruptions along the eastern margins of the Pacific Ocean. Revista Chilena de Historia Natural 77: 371-409.

Kildow, Judith and Charles S. Colgan. 2005. California's Ocean Economy. Report to the Resources Agency, State of California. The National Ocean Economics Program.

Kildow, Judith. 2005. State summary of coastal and ocean social and economic trends. National Ocean Economics Program.

Lluch-Belda, Daniel, Daniel B. Lluch-Cota, and Salvador E. Lluch-Cota. 2005. Changes in marine faunal distributions and ENSO events in the Calfornia Current.

Lluch-Belda, Daniel, R. Michael Laurs, Daniel B. Lluch-Cota, and Salvador E. Lluch-Cota. 2001. Long-term trends of interannual variability in the California Current system. CalCOFI Report 42: 129-144.

A Matrix of Ecosystem Services

This matrix of ecosystem services and human impacts (developed by UNH grad students and the NCEAS Distributed Graduate Seminar) is intended to help prioritize the major areas of focus for ecosystem based management. For the purposes of the working group we suggest that this matrix can serve as a mental model for narrowing down the focus of our work. The hope is that as we each go through the process of subjectively ranking each cell in terms of its importance for the California Current system (very important, moderately, of minor importance or not important), we will identify the dominant features for scientific analysis and management efforts. Feel free to consider either the ecological and economic importance of the services and threats or the feasibility of modeling these interactions when ranking them, but please be explicit about which of these decision frameworks you used. Prior to the meeting please think about the problem of prioritizing services and impacts for the Çalifornia Current system broadly as well as for small scale ecosystems nested within the large marine ecosystem. Remember that cumulative impacts are important as well as the interactions between services (e.g. habitat and nutrient regulation) and between impacts (e.g. climate change and disease).

National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis Science Frameworks for EBM

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