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Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate Sala, Enric; Mayorga, Juan; Bradley, Darcy; Cabral, Reniel; Atwood, Trisha; Auber, Arnaud; Cheung, William; Ferretti, Francesco; Friedlander, Alan; Gaines, Steven; et al.

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<b>Abstract</b><br/>

The ocean contains unique biodiversity, provides valuable food resources, and is a major sink for anthropogenic carbon. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an effective tool for restoring ocean biodiversity and ecosystem services but at present only 2.7% of the ocean is highly protected. This low level of ocean protection is due largely to conflicts with fisheries and other extractive uses. To address this issue, here we developed a conservation planning framework to prioritize highly protected MPAs in places that would result in multiple benefits today and in the future. We find that a substantial increase in ocean protection could have triple benefits, by protecting biodiversity, boosting the yield of fisheries, and securing marine carbon stocks that are at risk from human activities. Our results show that most coastal nations contain priority areas that can contribute substantially to achieving these three objectives of biodiversity protection, food provision, and carbon storage. A globally coordinated effort could be nearly twice as efficient as uncoordinated, national-level conservation planning. Our flexible prioritization framework could help to inform both national marine spatial plans and global targets for marine conservation, food security, and climate action.</p>; <b>Methods</b><br />

See the methods in the <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03371-z">paper</a> and the code in <a href="https://github.com/emlab-ucsb/ocean-conservation-priorities">github</a></p>

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Title
Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate
Creator
Sala, Enric; Mayorga, Juan; Bradley, Darcy; Cabral, Reniel; Atwood, Trisha; Auber, Arnaud; Cheung, William; Ferretti, Francesco; Friedlander, Alan; Gaines, Steven; Garilao, Cristina; Goodell, Whitney; Halpern, Benjamin; Hinson, Audra; Kaschner, Kristin; Kesner-Reyes, Kathleen; Leprieur, Fabien; McGowan, Jennifer; Morgan, Lance; Mouillot, David; Palacios-Abrantes, Juliano; Possingham, Hugh; Rechberger, Kristin; Worm, Boris; Lubchenco, Jane
Date Issued
2021-06-07
Description
<b>Abstract</b><br/>

The ocean contains unique biodiversity, provides valuable food resources, and is a major sink for anthropogenic carbon. Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an effective tool for restoring ocean biodiversity and ecosystem services but at present only 2.7% of the ocean is highly protected. This low level of ocean protection is due largely to conflicts with fisheries and other extractive uses. To address this issue, here we developed a conservation planning framework to prioritize highly protected MPAs in places that would result in multiple benefits today and in the future. We find that a substantial increase in ocean protection could have triple benefits, by protecting biodiversity, boosting the yield of fisheries, and securing marine carbon stocks that are at risk from human activities. Our results show that most coastal nations contain priority areas that can contribute substantially to achieving these three objectives of biodiversity protection, food provision, and carbon storage. A globally coordinated effort could be nearly twice as efficient as uncoordinated, national-level conservation planning. Our flexible prioritization framework could help to inform both national marine spatial plans and global targets for marine conservation, food security, and climate action.</p>; <b>Methods</b><br />

See the methods in the <a href="https://www.nature.com/articles/s41586-021-03371-z">paper</a> and the code in <a href="https://github.com/emlab-ucsb/ocean-conservation-priorities">github</a></p>

Subject
Other; marine conservation; marine protected areas (MPAs)
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Dryad version number: 5</p>

Version status: submitted</p>

Dryad curation status: Published</p>

Sharing link: https://datadryad.org/stash/share/02BKHc4tcIH_C2xN49Rpf_baBaGB_HhkVmb66s5Cr6Q</p>

Storage size: 79512243</p>

Visibility: public</p>

Date Available
2021-05-18
Provider
University of British Columbia Library
License
This dataset is made available under a Creative Commons CC0 license with the following additional/modified terms and conditions: CC0 Waiver
DOI
10.14288/1.0398265
URI
https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/ETK2FK
Publisher DOI
https://doi.org/10.5683/SP2/ETK2FK; https://doi.org/10.25349/D9N89M
Rights URI
https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/
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