Options for managing impacts of climate change on a deep-sea community
The deep sea hosts some of the world's largest, oldest, and most sensitive ecosystems. Climate change and ocean acidification are likely to have severe implications for many deep-sea ecosystems and communities, but what, if anything, can be done to mitigate these threats is poorly understood. T...
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ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:118872 2023-05-15T17:51:09+02:00 Options for managing impacts of climate change on a deep-sea community Thresher, RE Guinotte, JM Matear, RJ Hobday, AJ 2015 https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2611 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/118872 en eng Nature Publishing Group http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2611 Thresher, RE and Guinotte, JM and Matear, RJ and Hobday, AJ, Options for managing impacts of climate change on a deep-sea community, Nature Climate Change, 5, (7) pp. 635-639. ISSN 1758-678X (2015) [Refereed Article] http://ecite.utas.edu.au/118872 Environmental Sciences Environmental Science and Management Environmental Management Refereed Article PeerReviewed 2015 ftunivtasecite https://doi.org/10.1038/nclimate2611 2019-12-13T22:18:09Z The deep sea hosts some of the world's largest, oldest, and most sensitive ecosystems. Climate change and ocean acidification are likely to have severe implications for many deep-sea ecosystems and communities, but what, if anything, can be done to mitigate these threats is poorly understood. To begin to bridge this gap, we convened a stakeholder workshop to assess and prioritize options for conserving legislatively protected deep-sea coral reefs off southeast Australia that, without management intervention, are likely to be severely degraded within decades as a result of climate change. Seventeen possible options were explored that span biological, engineering and regulatory domains and that differed widely in their perceived costs, benefits, time to implementation, and risks. In the short term, the highest priority identified is the need to urgently locate and protect sites globally that are, or will become, refugia areas for the coral and its associated community as climate change progresses. Article in Journal/Newspaper Ocean acidification eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) Nature Climate Change 5 7 635 639 |
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The deep sea hosts some of the world's largest, oldest, and most sensitive ecosystems. Climate change and ocean acidification are likely to have severe implications for many deep-sea ecosystems and communities, but what, if anything, can be done to mitigate these threats is poorly understood. To begin to bridge this gap, we convened a stakeholder workshop to assess and prioritize options for conserving legislatively protected deep-sea coral reefs off southeast Australia that, without management intervention, are likely to be severely degraded within decades as a result of climate change. Seventeen possible options were explored that span biological, engineering and regulatory domains and that differed widely in their perceived costs, benefits, time to implementation, and risks. In the short term, the highest priority identified is the need to urgently locate and protect sites globally that are, or will become, refugia areas for the coral and its associated community as climate change progresses. |
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