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Article Dans Une Revue Biological Conservation Année : 2021

Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival

Ken Anthony
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Andrew Baker
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Michael Beck
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Lynne Zeitlin Hale
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Nathalie Hilmi
Terry Hughes
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Les Kaufman
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Alexandre Magnan
Elizabeth Mcleod
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Baruch Rinkevich
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David Wachenfeld
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Maintaining coral reef ecosystems is a social imperative, because so many people depend on coral reefs for food production, shoreline protection, and livelihoods. The survival of reefs this century, however, is threatened by the mounting effects of climate change. Climate mitigation is the foremost and essential action to prevent coral reef ecosystem collapse. Without it, reefs will become extremely diminished within the next 20-30 years. Even with strong climate mitigation, however, existing conservation measures such as marine protected areas and fisheries management are no longer sufficient to sustain the ecosystem and many additional and innovative actions to increase reef resilience must also be taken. In this paper we assess the suite of protections and actions in terms of their potential be effective according to a set of criteria that include effectiveness, readiness, co-benefits and disbenefits. Even with the best scientific innovation, saving coral reefs will require a well-funded, welldesigned, and rapidly executed strategy with political and social commitments at the level of other grand challenges.
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hal-03201225 , version 1 (03-05-2021)

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Joan Kleypas, Denis Allemand, Ken Anthony, Andrew Baker, Michael Beck, et al.. Designing a blueprint for coral reef survival. Biological Conservation, 2021, 257, pp.109107. ⟨10.1016/j.biocon.2021.109107⟩. ⟨hal-03201225⟩
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