Rebecca G. Martone

TL;DR: Genetic monitoring can help public agencies implement environmental laws responsive environmental policy demands a constant stream of information about the living world, but biological monitoring is difficult and expensive.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply methods developed to map cumulative impacts globally to the California Current using more comprehensive and higher-quality data for 25 human activities and 19 marine ecosystems and reveal that coastal ecosystems near high human population density and the continental shelves off Oregon and Washington are the most heavily impacted, climate change is the top threat, and impacts from multiple threats are ubiquitous.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors distill a set of seven principles to guide effective management in ecosystems with tipping points, derived from the best available science, based on observations that tipping points are possible everywhere, are associated with intense and/or multifaceted human use, may be preceded by changes in early warning indicators, may redistribute benefits among stakeholders, affect the relative costs of action and inaction, and often require an adaptive response to monitoring.

TL;DR: This work offers a method for eliciting expert judgment to quantitatively estimate the relative vulnerability of ecosystems to stressors, and combines these results with data on the spatial distribution and intensity of human activities to provide a systematic foundation for ecosystem-based management.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors review the evidence for impact-pathways using estuaries as a case study, focusing on seagrass and shellfish, and find that the vast majority of these made connections only rhetorically, and only 4.6% actually evaluated impacts of stressors on ecosystem services.