Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean

Tittensor, DP; Beger, M; Boerder, K; Boyce, DG; Cavanagh, RD; Cosandey-Godin, A; Crespo, GO; Dunn, DC; Ghiffary, W; Grant, SM; Hannah, L; Halpin, PN; Harfoot, M; Heaslip, SG; Jeffery, NW; Kingston, N; Lotze, HK; McGowan, J; McLeod, E; McOwen, CJ; O’Leary, BC; Schiller, L; Stanley, RRE; Westhead, M; Wilson, KL; Worm, B

Abstract

The impacts of climate change and the socioecological challenges they present are ubiquitous and increasingly severe. Practical efforts to operationalize climate-responsive design and management in the global network of marine protected areas (MPAs) are required to ensure long-term effectiveness for safeguarding marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. Here, we review progress in integrating climate change adaptation into MPA design and management and provide eight recommendations to expedite this process. Climate-smart management objectives should become the default for all protected areas, and made into an explicit international policy target. Furthermore, incentives to use more dynamic management tools would increase the climate change responsiveness of the MPA network as a whole. Given ongoing negotiations on international conservation targets, now is the ideal time to proactively reform management of the global seascape for the dynamic climate-biodiversity reality.

Citation

Tittensor, D., Beger, M., Boerder, K., Boyce, D., Cavanagh, R., Cosandey-Godin, A., …Worm, B. (2019). Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean. Science Advances, 5(11), eaay9969. https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay9969

• Journal Article Type: Article
• Acceptance Date: Nov 1, 2019
• Online Publication Date: Nov 27, 2019
• Publication Date: Nov 27, 2019
• Deposit Date: Dec 18, 2019
• Publicly Available Date: Dec 18, 2019
• Journal: Science Advances
• Publisher: American Association for the Advancement of Science
• Volume: 5
• Issue: 11
• Pages: eaay9969
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay9969
• Publisher URL: https://doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.aay9969
• Related Public URLs: https://advances.sciencemag.org/
• Additional Information: Funders : Canada First Research Excellence Fund Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI): Safe and Sustainable Development of the Ocean Frontier (Module G);Jarislowsky Foundation;Global Environment Facility;Natural Environment Research Council (NERC); Grant Number: GEF-5810