Human Impacts on Marine Ecosystems Of The California Current
The goal of this project was to map the current threats and impacts of human activities on the California Current marine ecosystem. For more information, visit the project page
Instructions:
Legend / Data Layers
Overlays
Countries
Rivers
Cities
Basins
Ecosystems
   Beach
   Kelp
   Rocky intertidal
   Salt marsh
   Seagrass
   Seamounts
   Suspension reef
   Canyons
   Deep waters
   Rocky reef
   Deep hard benthic
   Hard slope
   Hard shelf
   Mudflat
   Surface waters
   Shallow soft
   Deep soft Benthic
   Soft slope
   Soft shelf

Note: You must turn off all ecosystem layers in order to view the activity base maps.

* Ecosystems may not be visible on the full scale map.
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Model
Modeled Cumulative Impact
Activities
Demersal destructive fishing
Demersal non-destructive high-bycatch fishing
Demersal non-destructive low-bycatch fishing
Inorganic pollution
Invasive species
Nutrient runoff
Ocean acidification
Organic pollution
Pelagic high-bycatch fishing
Pelagic low-bycatch fishing
Ocean-based pollution
Commercial shipping
Sea temperature anomalies
UV radiation
Beach access (direct human impact)
Coastal engineering
Atmospheric deposition of pollutants
Light/Noise pollution
Aquaculture
Coastal power plants
Recreational fishing
Sediment increase
Sediment decrease
Trash
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