Response to Comments on "Impacts of Biodiversity Loss on Ocean Ecosystem Services"
Boris Worm1*,
Edward B. Barbier2,
Nicola Beaumont3,
J. Emmett Duffy4,
Carl Folke5,6,
Benjamin S. Halpern7,
Jeremy B. C. Jackson8,9,
Heike K. Lotze1,
Fiorenza Micheli10,
Stephen R. Palumbi10,
Enric Sala8,
Kimberley A. Selkoe7,
John J. Stachowicz11 and
Reg Watson12
1 Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada B3H 4J1.
2 Department of Economics and Finance, University of Wyoming, Laramie, WY 82071, USA.
3 Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Plymouth PL1 3DH, UK.
4 Virginia Institute of Marine Science, Gloucester Point, VA 23062–1346, USA.
5 Department of Systems Ecology, Stockholm University, Stockholm SE-106 91, Sweden.
6 Beijer International Institute of Ecological Economics, Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences, SE-104 05, Stockholm, Sweden.
7 National Center for Ecological Analysis and Synthesis, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA.
8 Center for Marine Biodiversity and Conservation, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA 92093–0202, USA.
9 Smithsonian Tropical Research Institute, Box 2072 Balboa, Republic of Panama.
10 Hopkins Marine Station, Stanford University, Pacific Grove, CA 93950, USA.
11 Section of Evolution and Ecology, University of California, Davis, CA 95616, USA.
12 Fisheries Centre, University of British Columbia, Vancouver, BC, Canada V6T 1Z4.
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Fig. 1. Fisheries collapses in LMEs as a function of time. Percentage of taxa that are currently producing less than 10% of the maximum catch ("collapsed taxa"), as a function of (A) average start year of the fishery, and (B) average lifetime of a fishery.
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