Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival
Kleypas, Joanie, Allemand, Denis, Anthony, Ken, Baker, Andrew, Beck, Michael, Hale, Lynne Zeitlin, Hilmi, Nathalie, Hoegh-Guldberg, Ove, Hughes, Terry, Kaufman, Les, Kayanne, Hajime, Magnan, Alexandre, Mcleod, Elizabeth, Mumby, Peter, Palumbi, Stephen, Richmond, Robert, Rinkevich, Baruch, Steneck, Robert S, Voolstra, Christian, Wachenfeld, David, and Gattuso, Jean-Pierre (2021) Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival. Biological Conservation, 257. 109107.
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Abstract
Maintaining coral reef ecosystems is a social imperative, because so many people depend on coral reefs for food production, shoreline protection, and livelihoods. The survival of reefs this century, however, is threatened by the mounting effects of climate change. Climate mitigation is the foremost and essential action to prevent coral reef ecosystem collapse. Without it, reefs will become extremely diminished within the next 20–30 years. Even with strong climate mitigation, however, existing conservation measures such as marine protected areas and fisheries management are no longer sufficient to sustain the ecosystem and many additional and innovative actions to increase reef resilience must also be taken. In this paper we assess the suite of protections and actions in terms of their potential to be effective according to a set of criteria that include effectiveness, readiness, co-benefits and disbenefits. Even with the best scientific innovation, saving coral reefs will require a well-funded, well-designed, and rapidly executed strategy with political and social commitments at the level of other grand challenges.
Item ID: | 70428 |
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Item Type: | Article (Research - C1) |
ISSN: | 1873-2917 |
Keywords: | Climate change, Conservation strategy, Coral reefs, Ecosystem restoration |
Copyright Information: | Copyright © 2021 Published by Elsevier Ltd. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license |
Date Deposited: | 07 Apr 2022 23:26 |
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