One hundred priority questions for advancing seagrass conservation in Europe
One hundred priority questions for advancing seagrass conservation in Europe
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DOI：
10.1002/ppp3.10486
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发表时间：
2024-02-08
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5.1
通讯作者：
Wilkes，Robert
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作者：
Nordlund，Lina Mtwana;Unsworth，Richard K. F.;Wilkes，Robert
社会影响声明海草生态系统对我们的星球和福祉至关重要。海草是海洋开花植物，它设计的生态系统提供多种生态系统服务，例如蓝色食物和碳封存。全球大部分地区的海草生态系统已严重退化。现在人们对保护和恢复这些系统越来越感兴趣，特别是在气候紧急情况和生物多样性危机的背景下。对来自欧洲各地专家的 100 个问题进行了整理，如果得到解答，可以通过促进此类工作成功的根本转变来提高我们保护和恢复这些系统的能力。摘要海草草甸提供了众多生态系统服务，包括生物多样性、沿海保护和碳封存。在欧洲，海草可以在海岸线、河口和泻湖以及岛屿周围的浅水庇护水域中找到，但它们的分布已经减少。水质差、海岸改造、机械破坏、过度捕捞、陆海相互作用、气候变化和疾病等因素减少了欧洲海草的覆盖范围，因此需要进行恢复。欧洲海草生态系统的研究、监测和保护工作大多不协调，并且偏向某些物种和地区，导致其管理的关键信息传递不足。在这里，我们的目标是确定 100 个优先问题，如果这些问题得到解决，将有力地推进欧洲的海草监测、研究和保护。使用德尔菲法，来自欧洲各地具有海草经验和不同海草专业知识的研究人员、从业者和政策制定者参与了包括研究问题的制定、投票过程和在线研讨会以确定 100 个问题的最终列表的过程。最终的问题列表涵盖九个主题领域：生物多样性与生态学；生态系统服务；蓝碳；渔业支持；驱动因素、威胁、弹性和响应；监测与评估；保护与恢复；治理、政策和管理；和通讯。回答这些问题将填补当前的知识空白，并使欧洲海草走上积极的复苏轨道。
Societal Impact StatementSeagrass ecosystems are of fundamental importance to our planet and wellbeing. Seagrasses are marine flowering plants, which engineer ecosystems that provide a multitude of ecosystem services, for example, blue foods and carbon sequestration. Seagrass ecosystems have largely been degraded across much of their global range. There is now increasing interest in the conservation and restoration of these systems, particularly in the context of the climate emergency and the biodiversity crisis. The collation of 100 questions from experts across Europe could, if answered, improve our ability to conserve and restore these systems by facilitating a fundamental shift in the success of such work.SummarySeagrass meadows provide numerous ecosystem services including biodiversity, coastal protection, and carbon sequestration. In Europe, seagrasses can be found in shallow sheltered waters along coastlines, in estuaries & lagoons, and around islands, but their distribution has declined. Factors such as poor water quality, coastal modification, mechanical damage, overfishing, land‐sea interactions, climate change and disease have reduced the coverage of Europe’s seagrasses necessitating their recovery. Research, monitoring and conservation efforts on seagrass ecosystems in Europe are mostly uncoordinated and biased towards certain species and regions, resulting in inadequate delivery of critical information for their management. Here, we aim to identify the 100 priority questions, that if addressed would strongly advance seagrass monitoring, research and conservation in Europe. Using a Delphi method, researchers, practitioners, and policymakers with seagrass experience from across Europe and with diverse seagrass expertise participated in the process that involved the formulation of research questions, a voting process and an online workshop to identify the final list of the 100 questions. The final list of questions covers areas across nine themes: Biodiversity & Ecology; Ecosystem services; Blue carbon; Fishery support; Drivers, Threats, Resilience & Response; Monitoring & Assessment; Conservation & Restoration; Governance, Policy & Management; and Communication. Answering these questions will fill current knowledge gaps and place European seagrass onto a positive trajectory of recovery.