Ocean sprawl facilitates dispersal and connectivity of protected species.
Ocean sprawl facilitates dispersal and connectivity of protected species.
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DOI：
10.1038/s41598-018-29575-4
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发表时间：
2018-08-16
影响因子：
4.6
通讯作者：
Roberts JM
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作者：
Henry LA;Mayorga-Adame CG;Fox AD;Polton JA;Ferris JS;McLellan F;McCabe C;Kutti T;Roberts JM
高度连接的网络通常可以提高复杂系统的弹性。我们提出了一种新的应用这种模式，并调查了潜在的人为结构在海洋中，以提高受人类压力和气候变化威胁的受保护物种的连接。受保护珊瑚物种的生物物理扩散模型模拟了北海石油和天然气设施之间的潜在联系，也模拟了下游天然珊瑚的集合种群结果。网络分析表明，这些装置释放的仅仅一代虚拟幼虫就可以创建一个高度关联的人类系统，幼虫能够在一系列天然深海、大陆架和峡湾珊瑚生态系统，包括海洋保护区定居。这些结果提供了第一个研究表明，一个系统的人为结构可以通过创建生态连接的网络，并作为跨国界的相互连接到自然种群的垫脚石具有国际保护意义。
Highly connected networks generally improve resilience in complex systems. We present a novel application of this paradigm and investigated the potential for anthropogenic structures in the ocean to enhance connectivity of a protected species threatened by human pressures and climate change. Biophysical dispersal models of a protected coral species simulated potential connectivity between oil and gas installations across the North Sea but also metapopulation outcomes for naturally occurring corals downstream. Network analyses illustrated how just a single generation of virtual larvae released from these installations could create a highly connected anthropogenic system, with larvae becoming competent to settle over a range of natural deep-sea, shelf and fjord coral ecosystems including a marine protected area. These results provide the first study showing that a system of anthropogenic structures can have international conservation significance by creating ecologically connected networks and by acting as stepping stones for cross-border interconnection to natural populations.
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