Is the current Mediterranean network of marine protected areas resilient to climate change?

Kyprioti, Amalia; Almpanidou, Vasiliki; Chatzimentor, Anastasia; Katsanevakis, Stelios; Mazaris, Antonios D.

doi:10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.148397

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“…This might be explained by the fact that climate change has already impacted local biodiversity in this part of the Mediterranean Sea, even leading to local extinctions (Albano et al, 2021;Rilov, 2016) (Katsanevakis, Coll, et al, 2020). As protected areas might also experience differentiated climatic conditions across their surface (Kyprioti et al, 2021), it is essential to monitor altering physicochemical conditions and changes in biodiversity to reduce risk to conservation objectives. Under the EU biodiversity strategy for 2030, at least 30% of the European seas should be protected, with 10% being under strict protection.…”

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Are Mediterranean marine threatened species at high risk by climate change?

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Doxa

Katsanevakis

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Global Change Biology

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Rapid anthropogenic climate change is driving threatened biodiversity one step closer to extinction. Effects on native biodiversity are determined by an interplay between species' exposure to climate change and their specific ecological and life‐history characteristics that render them even more susceptible. Impacts on biodiversity have already been reported, however, a systematic risk evaluation of threatened marine populations is lacking. Here, we employ a trait‐based approach to assess the risk of 90 threatened marine Mediterranean species to climate change, combining species' exposure to increased sea temperature and intrinsic vulnerability. One‐quarter of the threatened marine biodiversity of the Mediterranean Sea is predicted to be under elevated levels of climate risk, with various traits identified as key vulnerability traits. High‐risk taxa including sea turtles, marine mammals, Anthozoa and Chondrichthyes are highlighted. Climate risk, vulnerability and exposure hotspots are distributed along the Western Mediterranean, Alboran, Aegean, and Adriatic Seas. At each Mediterranean marine ecoregion, 21%–31% of their threatened species have high climate risk. All Mediterranean marine protected areas host threatened species with high risk to climate change, with 90% having a minimum of 4 up to 19 species of high climate risk, making the objective of a climate‐smart conservation strategy a crucial task for immediate planning and action. Our findings aspire to offer new insights for systematic, spatially strategic planning and prioritization of vulnerable marine life in the face of accelerating climate change.

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Are Mediterranean marine threatened species at high risk by climate change?

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Doxa

Katsanevakis

et al. 2023

Global Change Biology

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“…Still, expanding marine protected areas following a 4D approach, that is, setting priority networks of vertical coherence able to satisfy both climatic and biodiversity stability across depth zones, could serve as a first step towards directing conservation efficiency. Indeed, in a recent study Kyprioti et al (2021) found that the current network of marine protected areas in the region is currently subjected to low climatic stability, and climate driven redistribution of biodiversity would also lead to limited biotic community stability. Comparing and combining species-independent approaches, such as the one used here to identify climatic refugia, with species distribution current and future projections might capture different climatic sensitivities.…”

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“…Accounting for the redistribution of biodiversity, both in depth and over time, as a response to climate change could thus serve as an effective approach to help incorporate climate change in the prioritization of areas for conservation. The necessity of identifying sites that will most probably maintain their present climatic conditions, allowing local biota to sustain healthy populations over time, is also increasingly acknowledged (Katsanevakis et al, 2020; Kyprioti et al, 2021). Climate temporal stability and spatial heterogeneity, and their effects on the distribution of the biota are two key aspects to consider in climate‐effective protected area design (Doxa et al, 2022).…”

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4D marine conservation networks: Combining 3D prioritization of present and future biodiversity with climatic refugia

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Almpanidou

Katsanevakis

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Global Change Biology

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The marine realm is inherently three-dimensional, with marine biodiversity distribution varying greatly, not only across latitudinal and longitudinal gradients, but also with depth (Rex et al., 2005;Vassallo et al., 2020). One of the main challenges for effective conservation is to find ways of including this 3D organization of the biota into systematic conservation planning (Levin et al., 2018). Indeed, some recent studies have suggested the incorporation of this third dimension of the ocean (i.e., depth) to inform the prioritization of conser-

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“…Las condiciones naturales del fiordo Puyuhuapi, como son las descargas fluviales con altos aportes de materia orgánica terrestre (Sepúlveda et al 2011;Silva et al 2011;Montero et al 2017), las condiciones de hipoxia reportadas en la columna de agua (Silva et al 2014;Pérez Santos et al 2018) y la baja ventilación de las aguas profundas producto de las microcuencas (Schneider et al 2014;Pinilla et al 2020), sumado a actividades antrópicas como la salmonicultura, deben ser evaluadas en su conjunto como forzantes de cambios en la estructura, composición y funcionamiento de las comunidades bentónicas (Ortiz et al 2021;Quiroga et al 2022). La información espacial y funcional de estas comunidades son una herramienta fundamental para un enfoque de planificación espacial marina (Ehler & Douvere, 2009;Kyprioti et al 2021;O´Learly et al 2021), el cual debiese ser incorporado con urgencia en la gestión y planificación costera de la Patagonia Chilena.…”

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Distribución de las comunidades epibentónicas y caracterización de hábitats en el fiordo Puyuhuapi (45°S)

Saini

Villablanca

2022

AIP

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Las comunidades bentónicas de la Patagonia chilena presentan una alta biodiversidad en respuesta a la variabilidad de las condiciones ambientales, fuentes de alimentos y hábitats. Este estudio caracterizó una comunidad epibentónica con altos valores de riqueza de especies, dominada por suspensívoros distribuidos en diferentes tipos de hábitats a lo largo del fiordo Puyuhuapi. Múltiples variables ambientales definieron la composición y distribución de estas comunidades; siendo la profundidad y la inclinación y tipo de sustrato determinantes para la epifauna. En este fiordo, el grupo trófico asociado a los alimentadores en suspensión, representan un rasgo funcional que puede tener funciones ecosistémicas importantes asociadas a los ciclos del carbono y de los nutrientes. Razón por la cual, la información espacio-temporal y funcional de estas comunidades son un insumo fundamental para el monitoreo de estos ecosistemas, especialmente en fiordos con alto impacto de actividades antrópicas como la salmonicultura.

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Is the current Mediterranean network of marine protected areas resilient to climate change?

Cited by 16 publications

References 48 publications

Are Mediterranean marine threatened species at high risk by climate change?

Are Mediterranean marine threatened species at high risk by climate change?

4D marine conservation networks: Combining 3D prioritization of present and future biodiversity with climatic refugia

Distribución de las comunidades epibentónicas y caracterización de hábitats en el fiordo Puyuhuapi (45°S)

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