Ecosystem thresholds and indictors for marine spatial planning

The NCEAS team of Kappel and co-PIs Ben Halpern and Kimberly Selkoe — with partners at Stanford’s Center for Ocean Solutions, the Environmental Defense Fund, and the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) — have been awarded $3.1 million from the Gordon and Betty Moore Foundation for the soon-to-launch study, “Ecosystem Thresholds and Indicators for Marine Spatial Planning.” This four-year project will explore ecological and socio-economic thresholds or “tipping points” in marine ecosystems, and develop tools that help managers use this information to make better decisions about how people interact with and use those ecosystems.

University of California, Santa Barbara press release

For more information, visit the project web site: Ecosystem thresholds and indictors for marine spatial planning