Pubblicazione scientifica

Marine conservation: towards a multi-layered network approach

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
economia circolare e sostenibilità

RIASSUNTO

Valuing, managing and conserving marine biodiversity and a full range of ecosystem services is at the forefront of research and policy agendas. However, biodiversity is being lost at up to a thousand times the average background rate. Traditional disciplinary and siloed conservation approaches are not able to tackle this massive loss of biodiversity because they generally ignore or overlook the interactive and dynamic nature of ecosystems processes, limiting their predictability. To conserve marine biodiversity, we must assess the interactions and impacts among biodiversity and ecosystem services (BD-ES). The scaling up in complexity from single species to entire communities is necessary, albeit challenging, for a deeper understanding of how ecosystem services relate to biodiversity and the roles species have in ecosystem service provision. These interactions are challenging to map, let alone fully assess, but network and system-based approaches provide a powerful way to progress beyond those limitations. Here, we introduce a conceptual multi-layered network approach to understanding how ecosystem services supported by biodiversity drive the total service provision, how different stressors impact BD-ES and where conservation efforts should be placed to optimize the delivery of ecosystem services and protection of biodiversity.

This article is part of the theme issue ‘Integrative research perspectives on marine conservation’.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 02/11/2020

AUTORI

JACOB UTE
BECKERMAN ANDREW
ANTONIJEVIC MIRA
DEE LAURA E
EKLOF ANNA
POSSINGHAM HUGH P
THOMPSON ROSS
WEBB THOMAS J
HALPERN BENJAMIN S

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

HELMHOLTZ INST FUNCTIONAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY AT UNIV
ALFRED WEGENER INST HELMHOLTZ CTR POLAR & MARINE RSCH AM
DEPT ANIMAL & PLANT SCIENCES UNIV SHEFFIELD SHEFFIELD UK
ACH & KRACH GMBH
DEPT ECOLOGY & EVOLUTIONARY BIOLOGY UNIV COLORADO BOULDER CO 80309 USA
DEPT PHYSICS CHEMISTRY & BIOLOGY LINKOPING UNIV LINKOPING 581 83 SWEDEN
SCHOOL OF BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES UNIV QUEENSLAND SAINT LUCIA QUEENSLAND 4072 AUSTRALIA
CTR APPLIED WATER SCIENCE UNIV CANBERRA CANBERRA AUSTRALIAN CAPITAL TERRITORY AUSTRALIA
NATL CTR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS & SYNTHESIS UNIV CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA
BREN SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE & MGMT UNIV CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA CA 93101 USA

RIVISTA

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 375(1814), 20190459

IMPACT FACTOR

6,090

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