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

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越来越大，这表明有必要加强海洋的可持续性，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（乔内I 2008-2014）与学术界和政府（主要是渔业和海洋加拿大-DFO）合作开发工具，以帮助评估海洋多样性和海洋变化。NSERC乔内II将运用这些知识来帮助我们的合作伙伴管理可持续的海洋利用。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。具体而言，我们将继续与DFO合作，并增加对海洋可持续发展感兴趣的新合作伙伴，以加强和指导海洋保护区等具体管理干预措施的有效性，并了解这些战略的有效性，因为各种生态系统状态的变化有多种驱动因素。我们将制定战略，以评估（状态指标）保护工作的实际成果，优化（规划战略）这些干预措施，并评估不同的压力如何影响生物反应，包括提供关键的生态系统功能和服务，帮助维持生命。虽然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。管理战略的成功应用取决于对这些驱动因素的理解。具体交付成果包括：（1）确定生态特征，这些特征决定了不同海洋生态系统的复原力和脆弱性，

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