TY - JOUR
T1 - Towards climate-smart, three-dimensional protected areas for biodiversity conservation in the high seas
AU - Brito-morales, Isaac
AU - Schoeman, David S.
AU - Everett, Jason D.
AU - Klein, Carissa J.
AU - Dunn, Daniel C.
AU - García Molinos, Jorge
AU - Burrows, Michael T.
AU - Buenafe, Kristine Camille V.
AU - Dominguez, Rosa Mar
AU - Possingham, Hugh P.
AU - Richardson, Anthony J.
N1 - Copyright © 2022, The Author(s), under exclusive licence to Springer Nature Limited
PY - 2022/4/4
Y1 - 2022/4/4
N2 - Marine species are moving rapidly in response to warming, often in different directions and with variations dependent on location and depth. Given the current impetus to increase the area of protected ocean to 30%, conservation planning must include the 64% of the ocean beyond national jurisdictions, which in turn requires associated design challenges for conventional conservation to be addressed. Here we present a planning approach for the high seas that conserves biodiversity, minimizes exposure to climate change, retains species within reserve boundaries and reduces conflict with fishing. This is developed using data from across four depth domains, considering 12,932 vertebrate, invertebrate and algal species and three climate scenarios. The resultant climate-smart conservation areas cover 6% of the high seas and represent a low-regret option that provides a nucleus for developing a full network of high-seas marine reserves.
AB - Marine species are moving rapidly in response to warming, often in different directions and with variations dependent on location and depth. Given the current impetus to increase the area of protected ocean to 30%, conservation planning must include the 64% of the ocean beyond national jurisdictions, which in turn requires associated design challenges for conventional conservation to be addressed. Here we present a planning approach for the high seas that conserves biodiversity, minimizes exposure to climate change, retains species within reserve boundaries and reduces conflict with fishing. This is developed using data from across four depth domains, considering 12,932 vertebrate, invertebrate and algal species and three climate scenarios. The resultant climate-smart conservation areas cover 6% of the high seas and represent a low-regret option that provides a nucleus for developing a full network of high-seas marine reserves.
U2 - 10.1038/s41558-022-01323-7
DO - 10.1038/s41558-022-01323-7
M3 - Article
SN - 1758-678X
VL - 12
SP - 402
EP - 407
JO - Nature Climate Change
JF - Nature Climate Change
IS - 4
ER -
