Title
Marine Spatial Planning 2.0: genes and satellites to conserve seascape dynamics
Author(s)
Mendez, M.;Kershaw, F.;Palumbi, S.;Pinsky, M.;Ray, C.;Rosenbaum, H.;Subramaniam, A.
Published
2014
Publisher
Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems
Published Version DOI
https://doi.org/10.1002/aqc.2533
Abstract
Effective marine conservation requires protection and management of functional seascapes, butseascape-level conservation is challenging because it needs to capture complex physical and ecological features that characterize dynamic populations and their habitats. And since populations are spatially and temporally bounded by combinations of natural heterogeneities in the marine environment (environmental boundaries) and associated species’ responses ( population boundaries), marine protection mechanisms need to take such boundaries into account in a spatially and temporally explicit framework. Therefore, improved understanding of these population and environmental boundaries and the processes driving them over multiple scales is essential for developing effective marine spatial planning (MSP). This kind of comprehensive approach for MSP is especially relevant in the face of global climate change, as conservation targets will shift in space, and phenological relationships will be confounded, thereby diminishing the significance of the original conservation strategies.

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