The Large Marine Ecosystem Approach to the Assessment and Management of Coastal Ocean Waters
Since 1984, the NOAA Fisheries Service's Large Marine Ecosystems (LME) Program has been engaged in the development and implementation of an ecosystem-based approach to support assessment and management of marine resources and habitats. Five linked program modules have been developed for introducing the LME approach: productivity, fish and fisheries, pollution and ecosystem health, socioeconomics, and governance. Taken together, these modules provide time-series measurements used to support actions for the recovery, sustainability, and management of marine resources and habitats. A global effort is underway by NOAA in partnership with the World Conservation Union (IUCN), the UN's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC), and other UN agencies to improve the long-term sustainability of resources and environments of the world's 66 LMEs and linked watersheds. Scientific and technical assistance is provided to developing countries committed to policies and actions for eliminating transboundary environmental and resource-use practices that lead to serious degradation of coastal environments and their linked watersheds, and to losses in biodiversity and food security.
LMEs are natural regions of ocean space encompassing coastal waters from river basins and estuaries to the seaward boundary of continental shelves and the outer margins of coastal currents. They are relatively large regions of 200,000 km2 or greater, the natural boundaries of which are based on four ecological criteria: bathymetry, hydrography, productivity, and trophically related populations. The theory, measurement, and modeling relevant to monitoring the changing states of LMEs are imbedded in reports on ecosystems with multiple steady states, and on the pattern formation and spatial diffusion within ecosystems. The concept that critical processes controlling the structure and function of biological communities can best be addressed on a regional basis has been applied to the ocean by using LMEs as the distinct units for marine resources assessment, monitoring, and management.
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Identification info
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LME's
- Date (Publication)
- 2016-06-28T00:00:00
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28/6/2016 data downloaded from https://www.lme.noaa.gov/index.php?option=com_content&view=category&layout=blog&id=48&Itemid=268
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file:///E:/data/LME/LME66/LME66.htm
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- Vector
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- Oceans
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- GCMD Science Keywords 5.3.8
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Biosphere
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Biosphere | Aquatic Habitat
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Oceans
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Resource constraints
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- Unclassified
- Language
- English
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- UTF8
Distribution Information
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Distributor NOAA
Resource lineage
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July 20, 2013 – These data represent the latest official version of the LME boundaries. Two new LMEs were added for the Aleutian Islands (LME #65) and the Canadian High Arctic – North Greenland (LME #66). All of the boundaries for the Arctic LMEs were changed to reflect the revisions as outlined within the report: "Large Marine Ecosystems of the Arctic Area: Revision of the Arctic LME Map, 15 May 2013". The report was put together by the Protection of the Arctic Marine Environment (PAME) and the Arctic Council. The report is available through the lme website at www.lme.noaa.gov
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series
Reference System Information
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- WGS 84
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
- 3459C304-9A45-45CF-8FCE-DC24CA98F6C9
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Point of contact CSIRO Oceans & Atmosphere - Hobart
Type of resource
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- Series
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series
- Date info (Creation)
- 2016-06-28T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2016-06-28T01:50:56
Metadata standard
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ISO 19115-3:2018
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Marine Community Profile
- Date (Creation)
- 2019-05-30
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3.0
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- 2019-05-30T00:00:00
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Role Organisation Electronic mail address Custodian Marine Community Profile Governance Committee
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