Barry Costa-Pierce co-authors article to be featured in ‘Coastal and Estuarine Science News’

BCostaPierce2Barry Costa-Pierce, Ph.D., FAAAS, Henry L. & Grace Doherty Professor and chair in the Department of Marine Sciences and director of the Marine Science Center, co-authored an article that will be featured in the electronic newsletter of the Coastal Estuarine Research Federation, Coastal and Estuarine Science News, a publication designed for coastal management community members who have a need and interest in knowing about recent scientific results.

The article, “Managing bay and estuarine ecosystems for multiple services,” discusses the creation of a management action-ecosystem services matrix for assessing tradeoffs, which assigns positive and negative values to the effects of various management actions on a range of ecosystem services.  The matrix allows patterns to be observed; for example, making it apparent when a management action had multiple positive effects, or a positive impact on one ecosystem service but negative impacts on others.

Full citation:
Needles, L. A., S. E. Lester, R. Ambrose, A. Andren, M. Beyeler, M. S. Connor, J. E. Eckman, B. A. Costa-Pierce, S. D. Gaines, K. D. Lafferty, H. S. Lenihan, J. Parrish, M. S. Peterson, A. E. Sceroni, J. S. Weis, and D. E. Wendt. 2013. Managing bay and estuarine ecosystems for multiple services. Estuaries and Coasts 36 (April 2013). DOI: 10.1007/s12237-013-9602-7.

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