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Benjamin S. Halpern

Professor, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB
Verified email at nceas.ucsb.edu
Cited by 75973

Non‐linearity in ecosystem services: temporal and spatial variability in coastal protection

…, N Muthiga, S Polasky, BS Halpern… - Frontiers in Ecology …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Natural processes tend to vary over time and space, as well as between species. The
ecosystem services these natural processes provide are therefore also highly variable. It is often …

The soundscape of the Anthropocene ocean

…, VM Eguiluz, C Erbe, TAC Gordon, BS Halpern… - Science, 2021 - science.org
BACKGROUND Sound is the sensory cue that travels farthest through the ocean and is used
by marine animals, ranging from invertebrates to great whales, to interpret and explore the …

Understanding and managing human threats to the coastal marine environment

CM Crain, BS Halpern, MW Beck… - Annals of the New York …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal marine habitats at the interface of land and sea are subject to threats from human
activities in both realms. Researchers have attempted to quantify how these various threats …

The identification, conservation, and management of estuarine and marine nurseries for fish and invertebrates: a better understanding of the habitats that serve as …

…, DB Eggleston, BM Gillanders, B Halpern… - Bioscience, 2001 - academic.oup.com
Articles and cited as justification for the protection and conservation of these areas. Nonetheless,
the nursery-role concept has rarely been stated clearly, even in papers that purport to …

Impacts of biodiversity loss on ocean ecosystem services

…, N Beaumont, JE Duffy, C Folke, BS Halpern… - science, 2006 - science.org
Human-dominated marine ecosystems are experiencing accelerating loss of populations
and species, with largely unknown consequences. We analyzed local experiments, long-term …

A global map of human impact on marine ecosystems

BS Halpern, S Walbridge, KA Selkoe, CV Kappel… - science, 2008 - science.org
The management and conservation of the world's oceans require synthesis of spatial data on
the distribution and intensity of human activities and the overlap of their impacts on marine …

[PDF][PDF] Fixed points of nonexpanding maps

B Halpern - 1967 - projecteuclid.org
Introduction. This paper is concerned with nonexpanding maps from the unit ball of a real
Hubert space into itself. Browder [l] has established that such maps always possess at least …

Marine ecoregions of the world: a bioregionalization of coastal and shelf areas

…, ZA Ferdaña, MAX Finlayson, BS Halpern… - …, 2007 - academic.oup.com
Halpern is project coordinator for ecosystem-based management of coastal marine systems
at the National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA 93101. …

An index to assess the health and benefits of the global ocean

BS Halpern, C Longo, D Hardy, KL McLeod… - Nature, 2012 - nature.com
The ocean plays a critical role in supporting human well-being, from providing food, livelihoods
and recreational opportunities to regulating the global climate. Sustainable management …

Interactive and cumulative effects of multiple human stressors in marine systems

CM Crain, K Kroeker, BS Halpern - Ecology letters, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
Humans impact natural systems in a multitude of ways, yet the cumulative effect of multiple
stressors on ecological communities remains largely unknown. Here we synthesized 171 …