Conservation action in a changing climate

McClanahan, Tim R.; Cinner, Joshua E.; Maina, Joseph; Graham, Nicholas A. J.; Daw, Tim M.; Stead, Selina M.; Wamukota, Andrew; Brown, Katrina; Ateweberhan, Mebrahtu; Venus, V.; Polunin, Nicholas V. C.

doi:10.1111/j.1755-263x.2008.00008_1.x

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“…Bleaching occurred across many WIO reefs during 1998, with coral mortality from 1 to 95 per cent depending on local conditions McClanahan et al 2008). Fish-community effects were apparent throughout the WIO but were patchily distributed, reflecting the dependencies of individual species on corals.…”

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Transitional states in marine fisheries: adapting to predicted global change

MacNeil

Graham

Cinner

et al. 2010

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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Global climate change has the potential to substantially alter the production and community structure of marine fisheries and modify the ongoing impacts of fishing. Fish community composition is already changing in some tropical, temperate and polar ecosystems, where local combinations of warming trends and higher environmental variation anticipate the changes likely to occur more widely over coming decades. Using case studies from the Western Indian Ocean, the North Sea and the Bering Sea, we contextualize the direct and indirect effects of climate change on production and biodiversity and, in turn, on the social and economic aspects of marine fisheries. Climate warming is expected to lead to (i) yield and species losses in tropical reef fisheries, driven primarily by habitat loss; (ii) community turnover in temperate fisheries, owing to the arrival and increasing dominance of warm-water species as well as the reduced dominance and departure of cold-water species; and (iii) increased diversity and yield in Arctic fisheries, arising from invasions of southern species and increased primary production resulting from ice-free summer conditions. How societies deal with such changes will depend largely on their capacity to adapt—to plan and implement effective responses to change—a process heavily influenced by social, economic, political and cultural conditions.

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Transitional states in marine fisheries: adapting to predicted global change

MacNeil

Graham

Cinner

et al. 2010

Phil. Trans. R. Soc. B

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“…In Australia, Marshall (2007) found that perceptions of policies could significantly impact on the capacity of commercial fishers to cope and adapt to policy implementation. In general, MPAs that are implemented without due consideration of the likely social consequences can be associated with poor compliance (Sutinen and Kuperan 1999;Christie et al 2003;McClanahan et al 2008). This, in turn, compromises the ability of the MPA to deliver both conservation outcomes and long-term social and economic benefits.…”

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The Links Between Resource Dependency and Attitude of Commercial Fishers to Coral Reef Conservation in the Red Sea

Marshall

Abdulla³

et al. 2010

AMBIO

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The imperative to further constrain extractive uses of natural resources will strengthen as resources degrade through over-use or exposure to climate changes. Here, we explore an approach to increase the support for marine conservation among coral reef fishers. We explore the proposition that resource dependency in the Egyptian Red Sea can act as a barrier to conservation. We administered face-to-face surveys to 49% of the fishing industry to: (i) identify the level of compliance to the local marine protected area (MPA), (ii) assess the level of dependency on marine resources in the region and (iii) examine the relationship between resource dependency and conservation attitudes. Only 11.4% of fishers were aware of the MPA. Fishers were mostly limited in their social flexibility and livelihood options. Results suggest that resource dependency is highly and negatively correlated with conservation attitudes suggesting that management efforts need to seriously focus on reducing dependency if conservation goals are to be met.

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“…Traditional practices of conserving and restoring biodiversity by direct appeal to historical conditions are being reconsidered in the light of rapid environmental change (Seastadt, Hobbs, & Suding, 2008;Choi et al, 2008;McClanahan, 2008). For a species to survive the projected climate change in their current ranges they must tolerate the new conditions, or successfully colonize new areas with suitable conditions.…”

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Managed Migration of Coast Redwoods: Subjectivity of Stakeholders in Oregon’s Land Use Planning Community

Jenkins¹,

Jenkins²

2017

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The Earth's climate is changing at a faster pace than the slow natural adjustment rates of most species to their rapidly shifting habitat conditions, especially for long-lived tree species, such as the iconic coast redwood Sequoia sempersqvirens. This may leave some species stranded in less than optimal environments, resulting in population extinctions and/or the need for human-assisted migration. However, the implementation of assisted migration does not come without economic, legal, political, ecological, and ethical issues. One of the most important and complex social questions regarding assisted migration is that of the land use planning community in the area being considered. This article explores the subjective beliefs among these stakeholders regarding managed migration of coast redwood trees into suitable habitats in Oregon. Q-methodology was used to structure the complexity of participants' subjective beliefs into a few manageable themes to reveal broader socio-economic and environmental perspectives and shared ways of perceiving and valuing the relationship between social, economic, and environmental concerns. The findings of this study suggest two main factors 1) positively ranked values that align on new perspectives of utilitarian ecological values, and 2) positively ranked values that align on a land based communitarian perspective. This convergence suggests an ecologically aware land management ethos as opposed to the view of favoring human's dominion over nature, and therefore bolsters the potential for the future success of managed migration of coast redwoods into suitable habitats in Oregon given the state's existing land use policy.

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Conservation action in a changing climate

Cited by 202 publications

References 31 publications

Transitional states in marine fisheries: adapting to predicted global change

Transitional states in marine fisheries: adapting to predicted global change

The Links Between Resource Dependency and Attitude of Commercial Fishers to Coral Reef Conservation in the Red Sea

Managed Migration of Coast Redwoods: Subjectivity of Stakeholders in Oregon’s Land Use Planning Community

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