Assessing the Health of the U.S. West Coast with a Regional-Scale Application of the Ocean Health Index

• Benjamin S. Halpern ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin S. Halpern, Catherine Longo, Courtney Scarborough, Darren Hardy

  * E-mail: halpern@bren.ucsb.edu

  Affiliations National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, University of California, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Imperial College London, Silwood Park Campus, Ascot, United Kingdom

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• Catherine Longo ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin S. Halpern, Catherine Longo, Courtney Scarborough, Darren Hardy

  Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

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• Courtney Scarborough ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin S. Halpern, Catherine Longo, Courtney Scarborough, Darren Hardy

  Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

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• Darren Hardy ,

  Contributed equally to this work with: Benjamin S. Halpern, Catherine Longo, Courtney Scarborough, Darren Hardy

  Affiliations National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America, Digital Library Systems & Services, Stanford University, Stanford, California, United States of America

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• Benjamin D. Best,

  Affiliation National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, California, United States of America

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• Scott C. Doney,

  Affiliation Marine Chemistry & Geochemistry Department, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Steven K. Katona,

  Affiliation Conservation International, Arlington, Virginia, United States of America

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• Karen L. McLeod,

  Affiliation COMPASS, Oregon State University, Department of Zoology, Corvallis, Oregon, United States of America

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• Andrew A. Rosenberg,

  Affiliation Union of Concerned Scientists, Cambridge, Massachusetts, United States of America

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• Jameal F. Samhouri

  Affiliation Conservation Biology Division, Northwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries Service, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Seattle, Washington United States of America

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