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| Benjamin S HalpernSummaryAffiliation: University of California Country: USA Publications
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A global map of human impact on marine ecosystemsBenjamin S Halpern
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
Science 319:948-52. 2008....
Matching marine reserve design to reserve objectivesBenjamin S Halpern
Department of Ecology, Evolution and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Proc Biol Sci 270:1871-8. 2003....- An index to assess the health and benefits of the global oceanBenjamin S Halpern
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State St Suite 300, Santa Barbara, California 93101, USA
Nature 488:615-20. 2012..Only 5% of countries scored higher than 70, whereas 32% scored lower than 50. The index provides a powerful tool to raise public awareness, direct resource management, improve policy and prioritize scientific research... - Ecosystem service tradeoff analysis reveals the value of marine spatial planning for multiple ocean usesCrow White
Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, CA 93106, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 109:4696-701. 2012..Our analysis demonstrates the utility, feasibility, and value of MSP and provides timely support for the management transitions needed for society to address the challenges of an increasingly crowded ocean environment... - Understanding and managing human threats to the coastal marine environmentCaitlin M Crain
University of California, Santa Cruz Center for Ocean Health, Santa Cruz, California 93940, USA
Ann N Y Acad Sci 1162:39-62. 2009..The state of our ecological understanding, public awareness, and policy initiatives make the time ripe for advancing coastal marine management and improving our stewardship of coastal and marine ecosystems... - Placing marine protected areas onto the ecosystem-based management seascapeBenjamin S Halpern
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 107:18312-7. 2010..Ultimately, better synergies between these two burgeoning approaches provide opportunities to greatly benefit ocean health... 
Using expert judgment to estimate marine ecosystem vulnerability in the California CurrentSarah J Teck
Department of Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology, University of California, Santa Barbara, California 93106, USA
Ecol Appl 20:1402-16. 2010..Combining these results with data on the spatial distribution and intensity of human activities provides a systematic foundation for ecosystem-based management...- Interactive and cumulative effects of multiple human stressors in marine systemsCaitlin Mullan Crain
University of California, Santa Cruz and The Nature Conservancy Global Marine Initiative, Center for Ocean Health, 100 Shaffer Rd, Santa Cruz, CA 95060, USA
Ecol Lett 11:1304-15. 2008..While significant gaps exist in multiple stressor research, our results suggest an immediate need to account for stressor interactions in ecological studies and conservation planning... - Habitat size, recruitment, and longevity as factors limiting population size in stage-structured speciesBenjamin S Halpern
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California 93101, USA
Am Nat 165:82-94. 2005.... - Evaluating and ranking the vulnerability of global marine ecosystems to anthropogenic threatsBenjamin S Halpern
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
Conserv Biol 21:1301-15. 2007..Additionally, it can be easily modified, updated as new data become available, and scaled to local or regional settings, which would facilitate informed and transparent conservation priority setting... - Accounting for uncertainty in marine reserve designBenjamin S Halpern
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State St, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
Ecol Lett 9:2-11; discussion 11-4. 2006..We also argue that incorporating rather than avoiding uncertainty will increase the chances of successfully achieving conservation and management goals... - Strong top-down control in southern California kelp forest ecosystemsBenjamin S Halpern
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
Science 312:1230-2. 2006..Management of top-down influences such as fishing may be more important in coastal marine ecosystems, particularly in kelp forest systems, than is commonly thought... - Gaps and mismatches between global conservation priorities and spendingBenjamin S Halpern
National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, 735 State Street, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA
Conserv Biol 20:56-64. 2006.... - Asymmetry in community regulation: effects of predators and productivityElizabeth T Borer
Department of Zoology, Oregon State University, Corvallis, Oregon 97331, USA
Ecology 87:2813-20. 2006..Thus, top-down effects of predation are transferred through more trophic levels than are bottom-up effects of eutrophication, showing strong asymmetry in the direction of control of biomass distribution in communities... - Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem servicesBoris Worm
Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4J1
Science 314:787-90. 2006..Yet available data suggest that at this point, these trends are still reversible... - Temperature control of larval dispersal and the implications for marine ecology, evolution, and conservationMary I O'Connor
Curriculum in Ecology, CB 3275, Department of Marine Sciences, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, USA
Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A 104:1266-71. 2007.... - Understanding and predicting ecological dynamics: are major surprises inevitable?Daniel F Doak
Department of Zoology and Physiology, University of Wyoming, Laramie, Wyoming 82071, USA
Ecology 89:952-61. 2008.... - Impact of animal handling on the results of 18F-FDG PET studies in miceBarbara J Fueger
Department of Molecular and Medical Pharmacology, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA, Los Angeles, California, USA
J Nucl Med 47:999-1006. 2006..Isoflurane appears well suited for anesthesia of tumor-bearing mice, whereas ketamine/xylazine should be used with caution, as it may induce marked hyperglycemia...