Well-being outcomes of marine protected areas

Ban, Natalie C.; Gurney, Georgina G.; Marshall, Nadine; Whitney, Charlotte K.; Mills, Morena; Gelcich, Stefan; Bennett, Nathan; Meehan, Mairi C.; Butler, Caroline; Ban, Stephen S.; Tran, Tanya C.; Cox, Michael; Breslow, Sara Jo

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“…Marine protected areas (MPAs) are key ocean conservation tools that can produce significant ecological, economic, and social benefits when appropriately designed, implemented, and managed (Ban et al, 2019; Di Franco et al, 2016; Edgar et al, 2014; Gill et al, 2017; Halpern & Warner, 2002). Among the 20 biodiversity targets set out in the Convention on Biological Diversity's Strategic Plan for Biodiversity 2011–2020, Aichi Target 11 reads: ‘By 2020, at least … 10 per cent of coastal and marine areas … are conserved through effectively and equitably managed , ecologically representative and well connected systems of protected areas and other effective area‐based conservation measures’ (UNEP/CBD/COP/10/27; emphasis added).…”

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Contextualizing ecological performance: Rethinking monitoring in marine protected areas

Dunham

Rubidge

et al. 2020

Aquatic Conservation

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1. The global extent of marine protected areas (MPAs) has increased rapidly in the last decade, and monitoring and evaluation are now required for effective and adaptive management of these areas. 2. We classify monitoring in MPAs into four categories and identify a critically important, but undervalued category: human pressure monitoring that targets human activities and their impacts. 3. Human pressure monitoring is fundamental for interpreting the results of ecological performance monitoring and for evaluating MPA management effectiveness. The consequences of ecological performance monitoring that show unsuccessful MPA performance while falsely assuming successful mitigation of human pressures could jeopardize MPA performance analysis and adaptive management, and thus be worse than not monitoring at all. 4. Human pressure monitoring enables using MPAs as reference areas where the effects of global or regional pressures (e.g. climate change) can be disentangled from the effects of local human activities, as well as to minimize the shifting baseline phenomenon in defining healthy stocks. These benefits cannot be realized without active human pressure monitoring integrated into an adaptive management cycle that ensures effective MPA protection. 5. In the absence of human pressure monitoring, all ecological monitoring within MPAs falls in the ambient monitoring category: monitoring that is not intended to measure conservation outcomes. 6. We discuss the implications for monitoring programme design and provide a structure for decision-makers on how to prioritize monitoring activities within MPAs that place greater emphasis on improving MPAs as biodiversity conservation tools over proving MPA performance.

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Contextualizing ecological performance: Rethinking monitoring in marine protected areas

Dunham

Rubidge

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Aquatic Conservation

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“…This type of approach could enhance a major recent thrust in the MPA literature to better understand trade-offs in MPAs. This includes trade-offs between engaging in different industries (e.g., fishing vs. tourism) [53,105] and trade-offs between ecological resources (supply) and the well-being of users (demand) [67,106] in MPAs. Insights about such trade-offs are important because they shape decision-making on MPA management, but thus far have not been able to capture driving forces from distant places that may affect these competing forces.…”

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A Synthesis of Opportunities for Applying the Telecoupling Framework to Marine Protected Areas

2019

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The world’s oceans face unprecedented anthropogenic threats in the globalized era that originate from all over the world, including climate change, global trade and transportation, and pollution. Marine protected areas (MPAs) serve important roles in conservation of marine biodiversity and ecosystem resilience, but their success is increasingly challenged in the face of such large-scale threats. Here, we illustrate the utility of adopting the interdisciplinary telecoupling framework to better understand effects that originate from distant places and cross MPA boundaries (e.g., polluted water circulation, anthropogenic noise transport, human and animal migration). We review evidence of distal processes affecting MPAs and the cutting-edge approaches currently used to investigate these processes. We then introduce the umbrella framework of telecoupling and explain how it can help address knowledge gaps that exist due to limitations of past approaches that are centered within individual disciplines. We then synthesize five examples from the recent telecoupling literature to explore how the telecoupling framework can be used for MPA research. These examples include the spatial subsidies approach, adapted social network analysis, telecoupled qualitative analysis, telecoupled supply chain analysis, and decision support tools for telecoupling. Our work highlights the potential for the telecoupling framework to better understand and address the mounting and interconnected socioeconomic and environmental sustainability challenges faced by the growing number of MPAs around the world.

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“…Marine reserves not only help achieve economic and ecological fisheries objectives (Sala et al, 2013), but also support social management targets by protecting culturally important species and sites (e.g. New Zealand taonga; Department of Conservation, 2007), providing recreational activities (Pomeroy, Parks, & Watson, 2004), and improving human well‐being (Ban et al, 2019; Burt et al, 2014).…”

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Enhanced biodiversity and abundance of benthic invertebrate macrofauna in a New Zealand marine reserve

Mello

Smith

Wood

et al. 2020

Aquatic Conservation

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1. No-take marine reserves are an important management tool in the conservation and restoration of marine habitats around the world. They are intended to provide spatial refugia for exploited species and to protect sensitive habitat and biodiversity hot spots. 2. Despite strong evidence that marine reserves enhance overall biodiversity, it is not clear that this effect extends to all taxonomic groups. Most marine reserves are designed to protect large mobile fauna. Their effect on small sessile benthic invertebrates is unclear, yet these organisms provide critical ecosystem functions.

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Well-being outcomes of marine protected areas

Abstract: Breslow, Sara Jo (2019) Well-being outcomes of marine protected areas. Nature Sustainability, 2 pp. 524-532.

Cited by 179 publications

References 55 publications

Contextualizing ecological performance: Rethinking monitoring in marine protected areas

Contextualizing ecological performance: Rethinking monitoring in marine protected areas

A Synthesis of Opportunities for Applying the Telecoupling Framework to Marine Protected Areas

Enhanced biodiversity and abundance of benthic invertebrate macrofauna in a New Zealand marine reserve

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