@article{b12af97608174b06a9299b9691173b08,
title = "Governance characteristics of large marine ecosystems",
author = "Robin Mahon and Lucia Fanning and Patrick McConney and {Pollnac Richard}, R.",
note = "Funding Information: Large marine ecosystems (LMEs) have been defined as relatively large regions of coastal oceans on the order of 200,000 km 2 or greater, characterized by distinct bathymetry, hydrography, productivity, and trophically dependent populations [1] . Over the past 25 years the LME concept has been used to investigate the problems affecting the world's coastal marine ecosystems, and has had a global impact on how initiatives to address these problems are defined, developed, and funded. The concept has focused attention worldwide on the need to address marine ecosystem issues at a geographical scale that is appropriate to major marine biophysical processes. Attention to LME processes has generated numerous books and articles [e.g., [2,3] ]. The LME concept has provided a rallying point for countries to cooperate in dealing with problems relating to the utilization of transboundary resources. This is supported financially by international funding mechanisms such as the Global Environment Fund (GEF). The 64 LMEs have been proposed as ecologically rational units of ocean space in which ecosystem-based management can be applied ( Fig. 1 ). ",
year = "2010",
month = sep,
doi = "10.1016/j.marpol.2010.01.016",
language = "English",
volume = "34",
pages = "919--927",
journal = "Marine Policy",
issn = "0308-597X",
publisher = "Elsevier Limited",
number = "5",
}
