Indicators

Indicators can help to inform citizens, policy-makers, scientists and other stakeholders about the status of marine resources, human impacts on the marine ecosystem, the effects of mitigating actions, and the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders. The Indicators component of the IMS is meant to foster information among those institutions and users developing and applying marine indicators. As such this knowledge base will help: to improve understanding of marine indicators and their uses, to promote data and information sharing, and to encourage communication between and among indicator developers and users. Each button in the table above provides direct links to numerous sources of data and information related to indicators, structured along the 3 x 3(4) matrix of the CLME project.