Pubblicazione scientifica

Parsing human and biophysical drivers of coral reef regimes

FILONE TECNOLOGICO	TEMA
economia circolare e sostenibilità

RIASSUNTO

Coral reefs worldwide face unprecedented cumulative anthropogenic effects of interacting local human pressures, global climate change and distal social processes. Reefs are also bound by the natural biophysical environment within which they exist. In this context, a key challenge for effective management is understanding how anthropogenic and biophysical conditions interact to drive distinct coral reef configurations. Here, we use machine learning to conduct explanatory predictions on reef ecosystems defined by both fish and benthic communities. Drawing on the most spatially extensive dataset available across the Hawaiian archipelago—20 anthropogenic and biophysical predictors over 620 survey sites—we model the occurrence of four distinct reef regimes and provide a novel approach to quantify the relative influence of human and environmental variables in shaping reef ecosystems. Our findings highlight the nuances of what underpins different coral reef regimes, the overwhelming importance of biophysical predictors and how a reef's natural setting may either expand or narrow the opportunity space for management interventions. The methods developed through this study can help inform reef practitioners and hold promises for replication across a broad range of ecosystems.

DATA

Data di pubblicazione: 13/02/2019

AUTORI

JOUFFRAY JEAN-BAPTISTE
WEDDING LISA M
NORSTROM ALBERT V
DONOVAN MARY K
WILLIAMS GARETH J
CROWDER LARRY B
ERICKSON ASHLEY L
FRIEDLANDER ALAN M
GRAHAM NICHOLAS A J
GOVE JAMISON M
KAPPEL CARRIE V
KITTINGER JOHN N
LECKY JOEY
OLESON KIRSTEN L L
SELKOE KIMBERLY A
WHITE CROW
WILLIAMS IVOR D
NYSTROM MAGNUS

ENTE DI AFFERENZA

STOCKHOLM RESILIENCE CTR STOCKHOLM UNIV STOCKHOLM SWEDEN
GLOBAL ECONOMIC DYNAMICS & BIOSPHERE ACAD PROGRAMME ROYAL SWEDISH ACAD SCIENCES STOCKHOLM SWEDEN
STANFORD CTR OCEAN SOLUTIONS STANFORD UNIV STANFORD CA 94305 USA
HAWAI‘I INSTITUTE OF MARINE BIOLOGY UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MANOA KANEOHE HI 96744 USA
SCHOOL OF OCEAN SCIENCES BANGOR UNIV ANGLESEY LL59 5AB UK
HOPKINS MARINE STATION STANFORD UNIV PACIFIC GROVE CA 9395 USA
PRISTINE SEAS NATL GEOGRAPHIC SOCIETY WASHINGTON DC 20036 USA
LANCASTER ENVIRONMENT CTR LANCASTER UNIV LANCASTER LA1 4YQ UK
ECOSYSTEM SCIENCE DIVISION PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CTR NATL OCEANIC ATMOSPHERIC ADMIN HONOLULU HI 96818 USA
NATL CTR ECOLOGICAL ANALYSIS & SYNTHESIS UNIV CALIFORNIA SANTA BARBARA SANTA BARBARA CA 93101 USA
CTR OCEANS CONSERVATION INTL HONOLULU HI 96825 USA
JULIE ANN WRIGLEY GLOBAL INST SUSTAINABILITY ARIZONA STATE UNIV TEMPE AZ 85281 USA
DEPARTMENT OF NATURAL RESOURCES AND ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT UNIVERSITY OF HAWAI‘I AT MANOA HONOLULU HI 96822 USA
DEPT BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES CALIFORNIA POLYTECHNIC STATE UNIV SAN LUIS OBISPO CA 93407 USA

RIVISTA

Proceedings of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 286(1896), 20182544

IMPACT FACTOR

4,240

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