Ecosystem-based management is generally viewed as one of the most promising avenues for addressing the various anthropogenic pressures facing the world’s marine ecosystems. These approaches have been developed to varying degrees by individual countries or international organisations, but there remain a large proportion of marine ecosystems, particularly in developing regions, that have not yet been the subject of such research. In these areas, lack of effective regulation and the often high importance of the marine environment in providing food and economic opportunities, together create conditions where marine resources and habitats come under unsustainable levels of pressure. Here, we present a data-limited assessment approach to discern marine ecological patterns, in this case for the exclusive economic zone of Vietnam. By combining data from environmental and biological surveys from the Vietnamese national survey dataset and local oceanographic models, we have identified a series of 12 candidate ecological production units, delineated by their environmental characteristics, and the key commercial species that exist within them. These units are suggested as a possible foundation for a spatial management structure in the Vietnamese exclusive economic zone including considerations such as placement of marine protected areas, or ecological boundaries of key areas of socio-economic importance.

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确定越南的海洋生态生产单位

基于生态系统的管理通常被视为解决世界海洋生态系统面临的各种人为压力的最有希望的途径之一。各个国家或国际组织已在不同程度上开发了这些方法，但仍有很大一部分海洋生态系统，特别是在发展中地区，尚未成为此类研究的主题。在这些地区，缺乏有效的监管以及海洋环境在提供食物和经济机会方面往往非常重要，共同创造了海洋资源和栖息地面临不可持续压力的条件。在这里，我们提出了一种数据有限的评估方法来识别海洋生态模式，在这种情况下是针对越南专属经济区的。通过结合来自越南国家调查数据集和当地海洋学模型的环境和生物调查数据，我们确定了一系列 12 个候选生态生产单元，按其环境特征和其中存在的关键商业物种进行划分。这些单位被建议作为越南专属经济区空间管理结构的可能基础，包括海洋保护区的位置或具有社会经济重要性的关键区域的生态边界等考虑因素。以及其中存在的关键商业物种。这些单位被建议作为越南专属经济区空间管理结构的可能基础，包括海洋保护区的位置或具有社会经济重要性的关键区域的生态边界等考虑因素。以及其中存在的关键商业物种。这些单位被建议作为越南专属经济区空间管理结构的可能基础，包括海洋保护区的位置或具有社会经济重要性的关键区域的生态边界等考虑因素。