Utilising ecosystem services to support marine ecosystem management

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Identifying, measuring, and mapping ecosystem services in different places helps managers make decisions around things like resource use, planning and consents, catchment management, and marine protected areas.

Ecosystem services can help us understand and communicate multiple uses of marine ecosystems. The benefits of ecosystem services to people go far beyond making money and providing food. Marine ecosystems provide many services that are less obvious and may go unnoticed, yet the value and importance of these are poorly understood and difficult to measure.