Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean

Derek P. Tittensor, Maria Beger, Kristina Boerder, Daniel G. Boyce, Rachel D. Cavanagh, Aurelie Cosandey-Godin, Guillermo Ortuño Crespo, Daniel C. Dunn, Wildan Ghiffary, Susie M. Grant, Lee Hannah, Patrick N. Halpin, Mike Harfoot, Susan G. Heaslip, Nicholas W. Jeffery, Naomi Kingston, Heike K. Lotze, Jennifer McGowan, Elizabeth McLeod, Chris J. McOwenBethan C. O’Leary, Laurenne Schiller, Ryan R.E. Stanley, Maxine Westhead, Kristen L. Wilson, Boris Worm

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Abstract

The impacts of climate change and the socioecological challenges they present are ubiquitous and increasingly severe. Practical efforts to operationalize climate-responsive design and management in the global network of marine protected areas (MPAs) are required to ensure long-term effectiveness for safeguarding marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. Here, we review progress in integrating climate change adaptation into MPA design and management and provide eight recommendations to expedite this process. Climate-smart management objectives should become the default for all protected areas, and made into an explicit international policy target. Furthermore, incentives to use more dynamic management tools would increase the climate change responsiveness of the MPA network as a whole. Given ongoing negotiations on international conservation targets, now is the ideal time to proactively reform management of the global seascape for the dynamic climate-biodiversity reality.

Original languageEnglish
Article numbereaay9969
JournalScience advances
Volume5
Issue number11
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - Nov 27 2019

Bibliographical note

Funding Information:
This work was funded by the Canada First Research Excellence Fund Ocean Frontier Institute (OFI): Safe and Sustainable Development of the Ocean Frontier (Module G). D.P.T. acknowledges support from the Jarislowsky Foundation. Participation of L.H. was supported, in part, by a grant from the Global Environment Facility (GEF-5810). R.D.C. and S.M.G. were supported by Natural Environment Research Council (NERC) core funding to British Antarctic Survey.

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ASJC Scopus Subject Areas

  • General

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  • Journal Article
  • Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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