ecosystem-assessment

Central California MBON

**Central California** MBON This project will integrate remote sensing products, *in situ* data and models in support of long term needs of the NOAA California Current Integrated Ecosystem Assessment (CCIEA), Office of National Marine Sanctuaries, Bureau of Ocean Energy Management, and State of California. The goal is to quantify relationships between climate, the ocean environment (physics, chemistry) and marine food webs (from microbes to fish and top predators), with the aim of providing predictive understanding of marine ecosystem responses to environmental change.

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National Ecosystem Assessment Initiative

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NEA at UNEP-WCMC supports countries undertaking ecosystems assessments. The National Ecosystem Assessment Initiative (NEA Initiative) at UNEP-WCMC launched a new website to support countries undertaking ecosystem assessments. The new online platform hosts a range of resources produced by the NEA Initiative and its partners, including webinars, guidance documents, reports, case studies and lessons learned seeking to present and promote the national ecosystem assessment process. National ecosystem assessments lay out the status and trends on biodiversity and ecosystem services in a given country, their drivers of change, the impacts those drivers are having now and, in the future, and the effectiveness of interventions and responses, empowering the consideration of the full value of nature in decision-making.

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