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Priorities for Mediterranean marine turtle conservation and management in the face of climate change

Antonios D. Mazaris
Charalampos Dimitriadis
Maria Papazekou
Gail Schofield
  • Fonction : Auteur
Aggeliki Doxa
Anastasia Chatzimentor
Oguz Turkozan
  • Fonction : Auteur
Stelios Katsanevakis
Aphrodite Lioliou
Sara Abalo-Morla
Mustapha Aksissou
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Antonella Arcangeli
Vincent Attard
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Hedia Attia El Hili
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Fabrizio Atzori
Eduardo J. Belda
Lobna Ben Nakhla
  • Fonction : Auteur
Ali A. Berbash
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Karen A. Bjorndal
Annette C. Broderick
Juan A. Camiñas
  • Fonction : Auteur
Onur Candan
Luis Cardona
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Ilija Cetkovic
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Nabigha Dakik
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Giuseppe Andrea de Lucia
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Panayiotis G. Dimitrakopoulos
Salih Diryaq
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Costanza Favilli
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Caterina Maria Fortuna
Wayne J. Fuller
Susan Gallon
Abdulmaula Hamza
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Imed Jribi
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Manel Ben Ismail
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Yiannis Kamarianakis
Yakup Kaska
Kastriot Korro
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Drosos Koutsoubas
Giancarlo Lauriano
Bojan Lazar
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David March
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Adolfo Marco
Charikleia Minotou
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Nahla M. Naguib
Andreas Palialexis
Vilma Piroli
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Karaa Sami
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Bektaş Sönmez
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Laurent Sourbès
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Doğan Sözbilen
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Frederic Vandeperre
Pierre Vignes
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Michail Xanthakis
Vera Köpsel
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Myron A. Peck
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Résumé

As climate-related impacts threaten marine biodiversity globally, it is important to adjust conservation efforts to mitigate the effects of climate change. Translating scientific knowledge into practical management, however, is often complicated due to resource, economic and policy constraints, generating a knowledge-action gap. To develop potential solutions for marine turtle conservation, we explored the perceptions of key actors across 18 countries in the Mediterranean. These actors evaluated their perceived relative importance of 19 adaptation and mitigation measures that could safeguard marine turtles from climate change. Of importance, despite differences in expertise, experience and focal country, the perceptions of researchers and management practitioners largely converged with respect to prioritizing adaptation and mitigation measures. Climate change was considered to have the greatest impacts on offspring sex ratios and suitable nesting sites. The most viable adaptation/mitigation measures were considered to be reducing other pressures that act in parallel to climate change. Ecological effectiveness represented a key determinant for implementing proposed measures, followed by practical applicability, financial cost, and societal cost. This convergence in opinions across actors likely reflects long-standing initiatives in the Mediterranean region towards supporting knowledge exchange in marine turtle conservation. Our results provide important guidance on how to prioritize measures that incorporate climate change in decision-making processes related to the current and future management and protection of marine turtles at the ocean-basin scale, and could be used to guide decisions in other regions globally. Importantly, this study demonstrates a successful example of how interactive processes can be used to fill the knowledge-action gap between research and management.

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hal-04204038 , version 1 (11-09-2023)

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Antonios D. Mazaris, Charalampos Dimitriadis, Maria Papazekou, Gail Schofield, Aggeliki Doxa, et al.. Priorities for Mediterranean marine turtle conservation and management in the face of climate change. Journal of Environmental Management, 2023, 339, 117805 (11p.). ⟨10.1016/j.jenvman.2023.117805⟩. ⟨hal-04204038⟩
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