Benjamin S. Halpern

A Global Map of Human Impact on Marine Ecosystems

The management and conservation of the world's oceans require synthesis of spatial data on the distribution and intensity of human activities and the overlap of their impacts on...

Global priority areas for incorporating land–sea connections in marine conservation

Abstract Coastal marine ecosystems rank among the most productive ecosystems on earth but are also highly threatened by the exposure to both ocean‐ and land‐based human activiti...

Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services

Human-dominated marine ecosystems are experiencing accelerating loss of populations and species, with largely unknown consequences. We analyzed local experiments, long-term regi...

Marine Ecoregions of the World: A Bioregionalization of Coastal and Shelf Areas

ABSTRACT The conservation and sustainable use of marine resources is a highlighted goal on a growing number of national and international policy agendas. Unfortunately, efforts ...

Evaluating and Ranking the Vulnerability of Global Marine Ecosystems to Anthropogenic Threats

Abstract: Marine ecosystems are threatened by a suite of anthropogenic stressors. Mitigating multiple threats is a daunting task, particularly when funding constraints limit the...

Managing for cumulative impacts in ecosystem-based management through ocean zoning

Resolving Mismatches in U.S. Ocean Governance

Problems in ocean resource management derive from governance, not science. Ocean zoning would replace mismatched and fragmented approaches with integrated regulatory domains.