We used input from stakeholders to create a comprehensive understanding of the social-ecological system in West Hawai‘i, diagrammed in this conceptual ecosystem model. Ecosystem services are linked to complex interactions between human pressures such as habitat destruction, and ecological elements such as reef and pelagic fishes. In the model, Drivers (orange boxes) tend to be distal events that create more immediate Pressures (red boxes) which create change within an Ecosystem State Component (green boxes). Changes directly influence Impacted Ecosystem Services (purple boxes).
