Reviving shellfish reef socio-ecological histories for modern management and restoration

Ocean & Coastal Management, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 261, С. 107540 - 107540

Опубликована: Янв. 13, 2025

Язык: Английский

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Leveraging built marine structures to benefit and minimize impacts on natural habitats

BioScience, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 75(2), С. 172 - 183

Опубликована: Фев. 1, 2025

Abstract Many natural marine habitats are decreasing in extent despite global conservation and restoration efforts. In contrast, built structures, such as hardened shorelines, offshore energy aquaculture infrastructure, artificial reefs, increasing extent—and, some locations, represent over 80% of nearshore, structured habitat. When introduced into the seascape, structures inevitably interact with habitats, but these not typically designed to support systems. This approach often results overall harm systems, further impeding goals. However, there is growing recognition within ocean management engineering community that can be strategically minimize their negative impacts potentially ecosystems associated biota. We synthesize best available science provide bright spot examples how leveraging mimic or facilitate help recover biodiversity, augment ecosystem services, rehabilitate degraded providing positive outcomes for people nature a changing climate. Despite spots, we caution have environmental consequences should used lieu conventional habitat justify destruction habitats.

Язык: Английский

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Assessing the success of marine ecosystem restoration using meta-analysis

Nature Communications, Год журнала: 2025, Номер 16(1)

Опубликована: Март 29, 2025

Marine ecosystem restoration success stories are needed to incentivize society and private enterprises build capacity stimulate investments. Yet, we still must demonstrate that efforts can effectively contribute achieving the targets set by UN Decade on Ecosystem Restoration. Here, conduct a meta-analysis 764 active interventions across wide range of marine habitats worldwide. We show restorations have an average ~64% they are: viable for large variety habitats, including deep-sea ecosystems; highly successful saltmarshes, tropical coral reefs habitat-forming species such as animal forests; at all spatial scales, so over scales be done using multiple small-spatial better represent natural variability, scalable through dedicated policies, regulations, financing instruments. Restoration were surprisingly effective even in areas where human impacts persisted, demonstrating initiated before stressors been removed. These results immediate feasibility global 'blue restoration' plan ecosystems, enabled increasing availability new cost-effective technologies. This study evaluated descriptive statistical comparison, formal conducted interventions, mixed model based spectrum survival data reported reviewed literature.

Язык: Английский

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Quantifying the Reporting, Coverage and Consistency of Key Indicators in Mangrove Restoration Projects

Frontiers in Forests and Global Change, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 5

Опубликована: Май 16, 2022

Mangroves are often cleared for aquaculture, agriculture, and coastal development despite the range of benefits people nature that they provide. In response to these losses, there multiple global, regional efforts aimed at accelerating mangrove forest restoration, resulting in many restoration projects being implemented managed by different groups with highly diverse objectives. The information reported from is extremely variable, limiting our ability identify whether desired objectives have been met or key factors determine effective durable applied. To address this problem, we developed a holistic monitoring framework captures indicators spanning project aims, intervention type, costs, ecological socioeconomic outcomes. Subsequently, using systematic literature search, examined 123 published case studies quality on relative framework. We found were gaps reporting, indicators. Sections related site conditions prior (reported only 32% studies) outcomes (26%) consistently missing most reporting. Conversely, type was all studies, aims 76% (82%) far more prevalent. Generally, did not follow any specific terms reporting which likely contributed recorded. These hinder comparisons between inhibiting learn lessons previous attempts identifying commonalities. need structure consistent supports standard tracking tool can facilitate comparison efforts, aiding implementation future projects.

Язык: Английский

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Emerging 3D technologies for future reformation of coral reefs: Enhancing biodiversity using biomimetic structures based on designs by nature

The Science of The Total Environment, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 830, С. 154749 - 154749

Опубликована: Март 23, 2022

Язык: Английский

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The need, opportunities, and challenges for creating a standardized framework for marine restoration monitoring and reporting

Biological Conservation, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 266, С. 109429 - 109429

Опубликована: Янв. 10, 2022

Язык: Английский

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Turning a lost reef ecosystem into a national restoration program

Conservation Biology, Год журнала: 2022, Номер 36(6)

Опубликована: Авг. 7, 2022

Achieving a sustainable socioecological future now requires large-scale environmental repair across legislative borders. Yet, enabling conservation is complicated by policy-making processes that are disconnected from socioeconomic interests, multiple sources of knowledge, and differing applications policy. We considered how multidisciplinary approach to marine habitat restoration generated the scientific evidence base, community support, funding needed begin forgotten, functionally extinct shellfish reef ecosystem. The key actors came together as researchers, practitioners, recreational fisher communities, government bodies collaborated sectors rediscover Australia's lost reefs communicate value its restoration. Actions undertaken build case for included synthesizing current knowledge on Australian their historical decline, using this history tell compelling story spark public political interest, integrating into policy, rallying local support through engagement. Clearly articulating social, economic, business led state national meet diverse sustainability goals (e.g., enhanced biodiversity fisheries productivity) job creation opportunities). A lesson learned was importance aligning project with industry interests so projects could address obligations. This process culminated in largest initiative shows solutions ecosystem can rapidly occur when socially valued science acts opportunities.Transformación de un Ecosistema Arrecifal Perdido en Programa Nacional Restauración Resumen Actualmente se requiere una reparación ambiental gran escala que atraviese fronteras legislativas para lograr futuro socio-ecológico sustentable. Aun así, habilitar la conservación es complicado debido los procesos elaboración políticas están desconectadas intereses socio-económicos, las múltiples fuentes conocimiento y diferentes aplicaciones políticas. Consideramos cómo estrategia multidisciplinaria restauración hábitats marinos generó base evidencia científica, apoyo comunitario el financiamiento necesario así iniciar ecosistema arrecifal conchas funcionalmente extinto. Los actores clave formaron comunidad investigadores, practicantes conservación, comunidades pescadores recreativos órganos gubernamentales colaboró con varios sectores redescubrir arrecifes perdidos Australia comunicó valor su restauración. Las acciones realizadas armar caso marina incluyeron síntesis del actual sobre declinación histórica, uso esta historia contar narración convincente active interés público político, integración política gubernamental movilización por medio participación comunitaria. Claramente, articulación negocio económico llevó al estatal nacional cumplir diversos objetivos socio-económicos (p. ej.: creación empleos, oportunidades recreativas) productividad realzada biodiversidad pesquerías). Una lección aprendimos fue lo importante alinear proyecto públicos industria, tal manera proyectos aborden obligaciones Este proceso culminó iniciativa más grande demuestra soluciones ecosistemas pueden ocurrir rápidamente cuando ciencia social actúa

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To restore coastal marine areas, we need to work across multiple habitats simultaneously

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 120(26)

Опубликована: Июнь 22, 2023

The linkage between abuse to artisanal cobalt miners—including children—in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) and use in advanced batteries has prompted global supply chain reviews, responsible sourcing initiatives, ...From 2000 through 2020, demand for manufacture grew 26-fold. Eighty-two percent this growth occurred China China's refinery production increased 78-fold. Diminished industrial mine early-to-mid ...

Язык: Английский

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The Kelp Forest Challenge: A collaborative global movement to protect and restore 4 million hectares of kelp forests

Journal of Applied Phycology, Год журнала: 2023, Номер 36(2), С. 951 - 964

Опубликована: Окт. 9, 2023

Abstract Marine kelp forests cover 1/3 of our world's coastlines, are heralded as a nature-based solution to address socio-environmental issues, connect hundreds millions people with the ocean, and support rich web biodiversity throughout oceans. But they increasingly threatened some areas reporting over 90% declines in forest living memory. Despite their importance threats face, entirely absent from international conservation dialogue. No laws, policies, or targets focus on very few countries consider them national policy. The Kelp Forest Challenge addresses that gap. Together 252 experts, professionals, citizens 25 countries, was developed grassroots vision what world can achieve for conservation. It is global call restore 1 million protect 3 hectares by 2040. This monumental challenge, will require coordination across multiple levels society mobilization immense resources. Pledges may therefore include area protection restoration, enabling pledges which assist (funding, equipment, professional expertise, capacity building), awareness-based increase awareness education about forests. Correspondingly, participants be government, scientific institutions, private sector, NGOs, community groups, individuals. challenge beginning 17-year mission save anyone any organisation invited participate.

Язык: Английский

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New Technologies for Monitoring and Upscaling Marine Ecosystem Restoration in Deep-Sea Environments

Engineering, Год журнала: 2024, Номер 34, С. 195 - 211

Опубликована: Янв. 19, 2024

The United Nations (UN)'s call for a decade of "ecosystem restoration" was prompted by the need to address extensive impact anthropogenic activities on natural ecosystems. Marine ecosystem restoration is increasingly necessary due increasing habitat loss in deep waters (> 200 m depth). At these depths, which are far beyond those accessible divers, only established and emerging robotic platforms such as remotely operated vehicles (ROVs), autonomous underwater (AUVs), landers, crawlers can operate through manipulators their multiparametric sensor technologies (e.g., optoacoustic imaging, omics, environmental probes). use advanced deep-sea provide: ① high-resolution three-dimensional (3D) imaging acoustic mapping substrates key taxa; ② physical manipulation ③ real-time supervision remote operations long-term ecological monitoring; ④ potential work autonomously. Here, we describe how with situ capabilities payloads innovative sensors could autonomously conduct active monitoring across large spatial scales. We expect that devices will be particularly useful habitats, reef-building cold-water corals, soft-bottom bamboo fishery resources have already been damaged offshore industries (i.e., fishing oil/gas).

Язык: Английский

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