Ecosystem service indicators along the cascade: How do assessment and mapping studies position their indicators?

3 Ecosystem Indicators

There are many types of indicators, including those of the physical environment (e.g., climate), ecological, and socio-economic conditions. There is an entire professional journal devoted to the topic, called Ecological Indicators. Within marine systems, the most recent focus has been on developing indicators for ecosystem-based fisheries management (EBFM). Significant recent literature on this...

Potential ecosystem indicators for th

1) Ecosystem indicators are a way of reducing ecosystem complexity into a form that is most informative and useful to management. As a means of turning data into information, indicators are ultimately a communication tool facilitating science-based governance, i.e. the sustainable use of WCPO tuna resources and the conservation of associated species. 2) One framework suggested for the developme...

Health service performance indicators

The development of statistical indicators for monitoring performance throughout the National Health Service began in 1981. In recent years, computer software packages containing performance indicators have been amended to include Health and Social Services Boards in Northern Ireland. Although this information is available to anyone with an interest in service provision, the main purpose of the ...

Representativity Indicators for Survey Quality How to use R-indicators?

Quantitative Ecosystem Indicators for Fisheries Management Introduction

Spring in Paris (31 March to 3 April 2004) helped to attract more than 250 participants from 53 countries to a symposium on ‘‘Quantitative Ecosystem Indicators for Fisheries Management’’. The symposium was hosted by the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission at the UNESCO headquarters next to the Eiffel Tower, and coorganized with the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research (SCOR). Four ye...