Benthic-based contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation
Benthic-based contributions to climate change mitigation and adaptation
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DOI：
10.1098/rstb.2019.0107
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发表时间：
2020-03-16
影响因子：
6.3
通讯作者：
Godbold, Jasmin A.
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作者：
Solan, Martin;Bennett, Elena M.;Godbold, Jasmin A.
需要改善生态系统状况和复原力的创新解决方案，以应对社会挑战，并为建设具有气候抗御能力的未来铺平道路。基于自然的解决方案提供了保护、可持续管理和恢复自然或改良生态系统的潜力，同时为健康、经济、社会和环境提供多种其他惠益。然而，实施基于自然的解决方案的讨论几乎完全来自陆地和城市环境，并假定减少风险是在当地解决的。我们认为，这一立场忽视了在一系列的时间和空间尺度上复杂的生态相互作用的重要性，并错过了海洋生态系统的实质性贡献，这是明显缺乏大多数气候减缓和适应战略，延伸到沿海灾害管理。在这里，我们认为沉积物栖息的动物和植物群的潜力，以通知和支持基于自然的解决方案，以及如何底栖环境的生态可以加强适应计划。我们用实践的例子来说明我们的论文，这些实践正在产生或有潜力提供变革性的变化，并讨论进一步的创新可能应用于何处。最后，我们采取了反思性的看看底栖生物为基础的解决方案，以促进适应计划的实现和潜在的能力，并提供我们的观点，过去的成就和未来的奖励合理的优先顺序的适用性和缺点。这篇文章是“气候变化和生态系统：威胁，机遇和解决方案”主题的一部分。
Innovative solutions to improve the condition and resilience of ecosystems are needed to address societal challenges and pave the way towards a climate-resilient future. Nature-based solutions offer the potential to protect, sustainably manage and restore natural or modified ecosystems while providing multiple other benefits for health, the economy, society and the environment. However, the implementation of nature-based solutions stems from a discourse that is almost exclusively derived from a terrestrial and urban context and assumes that risk reduction is resolved locally. We argue that this position ignores the importance of complex ecological interactions across a range of temporal and spatial scales and misses the substantive contribution from marine ecosystems, which are notably absent from most climate mitigation and adaptation strategies that extend beyond coastal disaster management. Here, we consider the potential of sediment-dwelling fauna and flora to inform and support nature-based solutions, and how the ecology of benthic environments can enhance adaptation plans. We illustrate our thesis with examples of practice that are generating, or have the potential to deliver, transformative change and discuss where further innovation might be applied. Finally, we take a reflective look at the realized and potential capacity of benthic-based solutions to contribute to adaptation plans and offer our perspectives on the suitability and shortcomings of past achievements and the prospective rewards from sensible prioritization of future research. This article is part of the theme issue 'Climate change and ecosystems: threats, opportunities and solutions'.