Benedetti-Cecchi, Lisandro and Bates, Amanda E. and Strona, Giovanni and Bulleri, Fabio and Horta e Costa, Barbara and Edgar, Graham J. and Hereu, Bernat and Reed, Dan C. and Stuart-Smith, Rick D. and Barrett, Neville S. and Kushner, David J. and Emslie, Michael J. and Garcia-Charton, Jose Antonio and Goncalves, Emanuel J. and Aspillaga, Eneko (2024) Marine protected areas promote stability of reef fish communities under climate warming. Nature Communications, 15 (1). pp. 1-17. ISSN 2041-1723
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Protection from direct human impacts can safeguard marine life, yet ocean warming crosses marine protected area boundaries. Here, we test whether protection offers resilience to marine heatwaves from local to network scales. We examine 71,269 timeseries of population abundances for 2269 reef fish species surveyed in 357 protected versus 747 open sites worldwide. We quantify the stability of reef fish abundance from populations to metacommunities, considering responses of species and functional diversity including thermal affinity of different trophic groups. Overall, protection mitigates adverse effects of marine heatwaves on fish abundance, community stability, asynchronous fluctuations and functional richness. We find that local stability is positively related to distance from centers of high human density only in protected areas. We provide evidence that networks of protected areas have persistent reef fish communities in warming oceans by maintaining large populations and promoting stability at different levels of biological organization.
| Item Type: | Articles |
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| Keywords: | Marine Protected Areas (MPA), Reef Fisheries, Climate Change, Marine Conservation, Marine Environment, Protected Areas, Impact, Small-scale Fisheries, Fishing Communities, Conservation |
| Subjects: | Biodiversity |
| Depositing User: | Vivek D ICSF |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Mar 2024 07:20 |
| Last Modified: | 26 Mar 2024 07:22 |
| URI: | http://icsfarchives.net/id/eprint/20119 |
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