Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival
- Type de publi. : Article dans une revue
- Date de publi. : 01/01/2021
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Auteurs :
Joan KleypasDenis AllemandKen AnthonyAndrew BakerMichael BeckLynne Zeitlin HaleCaroline HilmiOve Hoegh-GuldbergTerry HughesLes KaufmanHajime KayanneAlexandre MagnanElizabeth McleodPeter MumbyStephen PalumbiRobert H RichmondBaruch RinkevichRobert S SteneckChristian R VoolstraDavid WachenfeldJean-Pierre Gattuso
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Organismes :
National Center for Atmospheric Research [Boulder]
Centre Scientifique de Monaco
The University of Queensland
University of Tokyo [Tokyo] = Tōkyō teikoku daigaku
The University of Queensland
Stanford University
University of Hawai‘i [Mānoa]
University of Maine
Universität Konstanz
Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche
Institut du Développement Durable et des Relations Internationales
- Publié dans Biological Conservation le 25/10/2020
Résumé : 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 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, welldesigned, and rapidly executed strategy with political and social commitments at the level of other grand challenges.
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kleypas_etal_inpress_Conservation_Biology.pdf
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