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New approaches to marine conservation through the scaling up of ecological data

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posted on 2023-05-18, 11:03 authored by Graham EdgarGraham Edgar, Bates, AE, Bird, TJ, Jones, AH, Kininmonth, S, Richard Stuart-SmithRichard Stuart-Smith, Webb, TJ
In an era of rapid global change, conservation managers urgently need improved tools to track and counter declining ecosystem conditions. This need is particularly acute in the marine realm, where threats are out of sight, inadequately mapped, cumulative, and often poorly understood, thereby generating impacts that are inefficiently managed. Recent advances in macroecology, statistical analysis, and the compilation of global data will play a central role in improving conservation outcomes, provided that global, regional, and local data streams can be integrated to produce locally relevant and interpretable outputs. Progress will be assisted by (a) expanded rollout of systematic surveys that quantify species patterns, including some carried out with help from citizen scientists; (b) coordinated experimental research networks that utilize large-scale manipulations to identify mechanisms underlying these patterns; (c) improved understanding of consequences of threats through the application of recently developed statistical techniques to analyze global species' distributional data and associated environmental and socioeconomic factors; (d) development of reliable ecological indicators for accurate and comprehensible tracking of threats; and (e) improved data-handling and communication tools.

Funding

Australian Research Council

Department of Parks and Wildlife (Western Australia)

Dept of Environment & Natural Resources South Australia

NSW Department of Environment, Climate Change and Water

Parks Victoria

Tasmanian Parks and Wildlife Service

History

Publication title

Annual Review of Marine Science

Volume

8

Pagination

435-461

ISSN

1941-1405

Department/School

Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies

Publisher

Annual Reviews

Place of publication

United States

Rights statement

Copyright 2016 Annual Reviews

Repository Status

  • Restricted

Socio-economic Objectives

Terrestrial biodiversity

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