Climate change (CC) is a key, global driver of change of marine ecosystems. At local and
regional scales, other local human stressors (LS) can interact with CC and modify its effects …

Nowadays, a variety of methodologies are available to assess local, regional and global
impacts of human activities on ecosystems, which include Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) …

Ocean governance is complex and influenced by multiple drivers and actors with different
worldviews and goals. While governance encompasses many elements, in this paper we …

Cumulative impacts increasingly threaten marine and coastal ecosystems. To address this
issue, the research community has invested efforts on designing and testing different …

Protected areas are widely used to stem biodiversity loss, with global conservation policy
mandating their use in meeting area-based conservation targets, such as the recent target to …

Abstract Marine Ecosystem Models (MEMs) provide a deeper understanding of marine
ecosystem dynamics. The United Nations Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable …

Claims for ocean space are growing while marine ecosystems suffer from centuries of
insufficient care. Human pressures from runoff, atmospheric emissions, marine pollution …

Marine ecosystems and their associated biodiversity sustain life on Earth and hold intrinsic
value. Critical marine ecosystem services include maintenance of global oxygen and carbon …

Understanding the areas used by migratory marine animals and their movements is critical
in supporting management decisions that target their conservation. This is especially …

Areas beyond national jurisdiction (ABNJ) constitute 61% of the world's oceans and are
collectively managed by countries under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the …