NSERC CHONe 2 - Conservation Strategies in Canada's Changing Oceans

NSERC CHNe 2 - 加拿大不断变化的海洋的保护策略

• 批准号: 468437-2014
• 负责人: Snelgrove, Paul
• 金额: $ 72.44万
• 依托单位: Memorial University of Newfoundland
• 依托单位国家: 加拿大
• 项目类别: Strategic Network Grants Program
• 财政年份: 2015
• 资助国家: 加拿大
• 起止时间: 2015-01-01 至 2016-12-31
• 项目状态: 已结题
• 来源: https://www.nserc-crsng.gc.ca/ase-oro/Details-Detailles_eng.asp?id=577205
• 关键词: NSERC; CHONe; Conservation; Strategies; Canada

Canada's oceans add immensely to our economy, health, and culture. Nonetheless, increasing pressures on ocean resources point to a need to enhance ocean sustainability and understand how different activities will change marine living resources. The NSERC Canadian Healthy Oceans Network (CHONe I 2008-2014) partnered academia and government (predominantly Fisheries and Oceans Canada-DFO) to develop tools to aid in assessing ocean diversity and ocean change. NSERC CHONe II will apply that knowledge to assist our partners in managing sustainable ocean use. We will help to achieve key scientific and conservation objectives outlined in Canada's Ocean Act and support activities under the recently established National Conservation Plan. Specifically, we will continue to partner with DFO and add new partners interested in sustainable ocean development to enhance and provide guidance on the efficacy of specific management interventions such as Marine Protected Areas, and to understand the efficacy of these strategies given multiple drivers of change across various ecosystem states. We will develop strategies to evaluate (status indicators) tangible results of conservation efforts and optimize (planning strategies) those interventions, and to assess how different pressures influence biological response, including delivery of key ecosystem functions and services that help sustain life. Although we can often predict how individual pressures such as pollution influence marine diversity few data exist to test cumulative impacts of multiple pressures. Successful application of management strategies hinges upon understanding these drivers. Specific deliverables include: (1) identification of ecological characteristics that define the resilience and vulnerability of different marine ecosystems in the context of management actions; (2) indicators and effective sampling designs for evaluating status and drivers of change, as well as efficacy of management actions; (3) comparison of different management actions given multiple and often cumulative stressors and; (4) a repository for coastal ecological data. We will complete this research in strategic geographic locations to provide new understanding with applicability elsewhere.

加拿大的海洋极大地促进了我们的经济、健康和文化。尽管如此，海洋资源面临的压力日益增加，需要增强海洋可持续性并了解不同的活动将如何改变海洋生物资源。 NSERC 加拿大健康海洋网络 (CHONe I 2008-2014) 与学术界和政府（主要是加拿大渔业和海洋部 - DFO）合作开发工具来帮助评估海洋多样性和海洋变化。 NSERC CHNe II 将运用这些知识来协助我们的合作伙伴管理可持续海洋利用。我们将帮助实现加拿大海洋法中概述的关键科学和保护目标，并支持最近制定的国家保护计划下的活动。具体来说，我们将继续与 DFO 合作，并增加对可持续海洋发展感兴趣的新合作伙伴，以增强海洋保护区等具体管理干预措施的有效性并提供指导，并在考虑到不同生态系统状态变化的多种驱动因素的情况下了解这些策略的有效性。我们将制定战略来评估（状态指标）保护工作的实际成果并优化（规划战略）这些干预措施，并评估不同压力如何影响生物反应，包括提供有助于维持生命的关键生态系统功能和服务。尽管我们经常可以预测污染等个别压力如何影响海洋多样性，但很少有数据可以测试多种压力的累积影响。管理策略的成功应用取决于对这些驱动因素的理解。具体成果包括：（1）确定生态特征，定义不同海洋生态系统的恢复力和脆弱性 管理行动的背景； (2) 用于评估变化状况和驱动因素以及管理行动有效性的指标和有效抽样设计； (3) 在多重且经常累积的压力因素下比较不同的管理行动； （四）海岸带生态数据存储库。我们将在战略地理位置完成这项研究，以提供在其他地方适用的新理解。