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Ecosystem-based management of coral reefs under climate change
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Harvey, BJ and Nash, KL and Blanchard, JL and Edwards, DP, Ecosystem-based management of coral reefs under climate change, Ecology and Evolution, 8, (12) pp. 6354-6368. ISSN 2045-7758 (2018) [Substantial Review]
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Abstract
Coral reefs provide food and livelihoods for hundreds of millions of people as well as
harbour some of the highest regions of biodiversity in the ocean. However, overexploitation,
land-use
change and other local anthropogenic threats to coral reefs have
left many degraded. Additionally, coral reefs are faced with the dual emerging threats
of ocean warming and acidification due to rising CO2 emissions, with dire predictions
that they will not survive the century. This review evaluates the impacts of climate
change on coral reef organisms, communities and ecosystems, focusing on the interactions
between climate change factors and local anthropogenic stressors. It then
explores the shortcomings of existing management and the move towards ecosystem-based
management and resilience thinking, before highlighting the need for climate
change-ready
marine protected areas (MPAs), reduction in local anthropogenic
stressors, novel approaches such as human-assisted
evolution and the importance of
sustainable socialecological systems. It concludes that designation of climate change-ready
MPAs, integrated with other management strategies involving stakeholders
and participation at multiple scales such as marine spatial planning, will be required
to maximise coral reef resilience under climate change. However, efforts to reduce
carbon emissions are critical if the long-term
efficacy of local management actions is
to be maintained and coral reefs are to survive.
Item Details
| Item Type: | Substantial Review |
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| Keywords: | climate change, coral reef ecology, ecosystem-based management, marine protected areas, marine spatial planning, resilience, social-ecological systems |
| Research Division: | Environmental Sciences |
| Research Group: | Environmental Science and Management |
| Research Field: | Conservation and Biodiversity |
| Objective Division: | Environment |
| Objective Group: | Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |
| Objective Field: | Marine Flora, Fauna and Biodiversity |
| UTAS Author: | Nash, KL (Dr Kirsty Nash) |
| UTAS Author: | Blanchard, JL (Dr Julia Blanchard) |
| ID Code: | 128144 |
| Year Published: | 2018 |
| Web of Science® Times Cited: | 3 |
| Deposited By: | Ecology and Biodiversity |
| Deposited On: | 2018-09-05 |
| Last Modified: | 2018-09-05 |
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