Polar lessons learned: Long-term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments
The Arctic and Antarctic polar regions are subject to multiple environmental threats, arising from both local and ex-situ human activities. We review the major threats to polar ecosystems including the principal stressor, climate change, which interacts with and exacerbates other threats such as pol...
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ftunivqespace:oai:espace.library.uq.edu.au:UQ:368277 2023-05-15T13:59:53+02:00 Polar lessons learned: Long-term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments Bennett, Joseph R. Shaw, Justine D. Terauds, Aleks Smol, John P. Aerts, Rien Bergstrom, Dana M. Blais, Jules M. Cheung, William W. L. Chown, Steven L. Lea, Mary-Anne Nielsen, Uffe N. Pauly, Daniel Reimer, Kenneth J. Riddle, Martin J. Snape, Ian Stark, Jonathan S. Tulloch, Vivitskaia J. Possingham, Hugh P. 2015-08-01 https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:368277/UQ368277_OA.pdf https://espace.library.uq.edu.au/view/UQ:368277 eng eng Ecological Society of America doi:10.1890/140315 issn:1540-9295 issn:1540-9309 orcid:0000-0002-3901-9513 orcid:0000-0002-9603-2271 orcid:0000-0001-7755-996X Ecology Environmental Sciences Environmental Sciences & Ecology 1105 Ecology Evolution Behavior and Systematics 2303 Ecology Journal Article 2015 ftunivqespace https://doi.org/10.1890/140315 2020-10-27T02:55:31Z The Arctic and Antarctic polar regions are subject to multiple environmental threats, arising from both local and ex-situ human activities. We review the major threats to polar ecosystems including the principal stressor, climate change, which interacts with and exacerbates other threats such as pollution, fisheries overexploitation, and the establishment and spread of invasive species. Given the lack of progress in reducing global atmospheric greenhouse-gas emissions, we suggest that managing the threats that interact synergistically with climate change, and that are potentially more tractable, is all the more important in the short to medium term for polar conservation. We show how evidence-based lessons learned from scientific research can be shared between the poles on topics such as contaminant mitigation, biosecurity protocols to reduce species invasions, and the regulation of fisheries and marine environments. Applying these trans-polar lessons in tandem with expansion of international cooperation could substantially improve environmental management in both the Arctic and Antarctic. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Arctic Climate change The University of Queensland: UQ eSpace Arctic Antarctic Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment 13 6 316 324 |
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The Arctic and Antarctic polar regions are subject to multiple environmental threats, arising from both local and ex-situ human activities. We review the major threats to polar ecosystems including the principal stressor, climate change, which interacts with and exacerbates other threats such as pollution, fisheries overexploitation, and the establishment and spread of invasive species. Given the lack of progress in reducing global atmospheric greenhouse-gas emissions, we suggest that managing the threats that interact synergistically with climate change, and that are potentially more tractable, is all the more important in the short to medium term for polar conservation. We show how evidence-based lessons learned from scientific research can be shared between the poles on topics such as contaminant mitigation, biosecurity protocols to reduce species invasions, and the regulation of fisheries and marine environments. Applying these trans-polar lessons in tandem with expansion of international cooperation could substantially improve environmental management in both the Arctic and Antarctic. |
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Bennett, Joseph R. Shaw, Justine D. Terauds, Aleks Smol, John P. Aerts, Rien Bergstrom, Dana M. Blais, Jules M. Cheung, William W. L. Chown, Steven L. Lea, Mary-Anne Nielsen, Uffe N. Pauly, Daniel Reimer, Kenneth J. Riddle, Martin J. Snape, Ian Stark, Jonathan S. Tulloch, Vivitskaia J. Possingham, Hugh P. |
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Bennett, Joseph R. Shaw, Justine D. Terauds, Aleks Smol, John P. Aerts, Rien Bergstrom, Dana M. Blais, Jules M. Cheung, William W. L. Chown, Steven L. Lea, Mary-Anne Nielsen, Uffe N. Pauly, Daniel Reimer, Kenneth J. Riddle, Martin J. Snape, Ian Stark, Jonathan S. Tulloch, Vivitskaia J. Possingham, Hugh P. |
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Polar lessons learned: Long-term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments |
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Polar lessons learned: Long-term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments |
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Polar lessons learned: Long-term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments |
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Polar lessons learned: Long-term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments |
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Polar lessons learned: Long-term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments |
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polar lessons learned: long-term management based on shared threats in arctic and antarctic environments |
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Ecological Society of America |
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2015 |
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