Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival
Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival
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DOI：
10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109107
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发表时间：
2021-04-17
影响因子：
5.9
通讯作者：
Gattuso, Jean-Pierre
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作者：
Kleypas, Joan;Allemand, Denis;Gattuso, Jean-Pierre
维护珊瑚礁生态系统是一项社会责任，因为许多人依赖珊瑚礁进行粮食生产，海岸线保护和生计。然而，本世纪珊瑚礁的生存受到气候变化日益严重的影响的威胁。减缓气候变化是防止珊瑚礁生态系统崩溃的首要和必要行动。如果没有它，珊瑚礁将在未来20-30年内极度减少。然而，即使有了强有力的气候减缓措施，海洋保护区和渔业管理等现有养护措施也不再足以维持生态系统，还必须采取许多额外的创新行动来提高珊瑚礁的复原力。在本文中，我们根据一套标准，包括有效性，准备程度，共同利益和不利因素，评估了保护和行动的潜力。即使有最好的科学创新，拯救珊瑚礁也需要一个资金充足、精心设计和迅速执行的战略，并在其他重大挑战的层面上做出政治和社会承诺。
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, cobenefits 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.