Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts
Ecological baselinesreference states of species' distributions and abundancesare key to the scientific arguments underpinning many conservation and management interventions, as well as to the public support to such interventions. Yet societal as well as scientific perceptions of these baselines...
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ftunivtasecite:oai:ecite.utas.edu.au:137822 2023-05-15T15:35:59+02:00 Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts Rodrigues, ASL Monsarrat, S Charpentier, A Brooks, TM Hoffmann, M Reeves, R Palomares, MLD Turvey, ST 2019 https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0220 http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31679498 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/137822 en eng Royal Soc London http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0220 Rodrigues, ASL and Monsarrat, S and Charpentier, A and Brooks, TM and Hoffmann, M and Reeves, R and Palomares, MLD and Turvey, ST, Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts, Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 374, (1788) pp. 1-9. ISSN 0962-8436 (2019) [Refereed Article] http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31679498 http://ecite.utas.edu.au/137822 Environmental Sciences Environmental Science and Management Conservation and Biodiversity Refereed Article PeerReviewed 2019 ftunivtasecite https://doi.org/10.1098/rstb.2019.0220 2020-08-24T22:16:20Z Ecological baselinesreference states of species' distributions and abundancesare key to the scientific arguments underpinning many conservation and management interventions, as well as to the public support to such interventions. Yet societal as well as scientific perceptions of these baselines are often based on ecosystems that have been deeply transformed by human actions. Despite increased awareness about the pervasiveness and implications of this shifting baseline syndrome, ongoing global assessments of the state of biodiversity do not take into account the long-term, cumulative, anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity. Here, we propose a new framework for documenting such impacts, by classifying populations according to the extent to which they deviate from a baseline in the absence of human actions. We apply this framework to the bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ) to illustrate how it can be used to assess populations with different geographies and timelines of known or suspected impacts. Through other examples, we discuss how the framework can be applied to populations for which there is a wide diversity of existing knowledge, by making the best use of the available ecological, historical and archaeological data. Combined across multiple populations, this framework provides a standard for assessing cumulative anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue The past is a foreign country: how much can the fossil record actually inform conservation? Article in Journal/Newspaper Balaena mysticetus bowhead whale eCite UTAS (University of Tasmania) Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences 374 1788 20190220 |
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Ecological baselinesreference states of species' distributions and abundancesare key to the scientific arguments underpinning many conservation and management interventions, as well as to the public support to such interventions. Yet societal as well as scientific perceptions of these baselines are often based on ecosystems that have been deeply transformed by human actions. Despite increased awareness about the pervasiveness and implications of this shifting baseline syndrome, ongoing global assessments of the state of biodiversity do not take into account the long-term, cumulative, anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity. Here, we propose a new framework for documenting such impacts, by classifying populations according to the extent to which they deviate from a baseline in the absence of human actions. We apply this framework to the bowhead whale ( Balaena mysticetus ) to illustrate how it can be used to assess populations with different geographies and timelines of known or suspected impacts. Through other examples, we discuss how the framework can be applied to populations for which there is a wide diversity of existing knowledge, by making the best use of the available ecological, historical and archaeological data. Combined across multiple populations, this framework provides a standard for assessing cumulative anthropogenic impacts on biodiversity. This article is part of a discussion meeting issue The past is a foreign country: how much can the fossil record actually inform conservation? |
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Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts |
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Unshifting the baseline: a framework for documenting historical population changes and assessing long-term anthropogenic impacts |
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