Science, biodiversity and Australian management of marine ecosystems

Kenchington, Richard; Hutchings, Pat

doi:10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2012.08.009

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“…The upper layers of the water column sustain primary production and complex food webs in which larval development stages and distribution of many place-related species interact with permanent water column species. Tides, currents and wind-generated waves provide complex multidirectional linkages across protected area boundaries (Kenchington and Hutchings 2012).…”

Section: Conserving the Marine And Terrestrial Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Can we reverse the machinery which has ground down so much of this country?” The value of protected areas for fauna conservation: Editors' Prologue

Lunney

Hutchings

Dickman

2017

Australian Zoologist

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The Royal Zoological Society of NSW forum on the value of protected areas for fauna conservation, held in Sydney in November 2014, comprised a series of papers interlaced with a series of plenary discussions, which can be read in full in this theme edition of Australian Zoologist. The forum was a parallel event to the IUCN World Parks Congress on protected areas, also held in Sydney in the week following the forum. One outcome of the IUCN Congress was the inspirational statement entitled 'Promise of Sydney', which included a call to invest "in nature's solutions, supported by public policy, incentives, tools and safeguards that help to halt biodiversity loss, mitigate and respond to climate change, reduce the risk and impact of disasters, improve food and water security, and promote human health and dignity". The papers and plenary discussions in this RZS NSW forum all foreshadowed this vision as it applies to protected areas. Our focus in this theme edition of Australian Zoologist is on conserving fauna in Australia, and in protected areas in particular. Our concern is not so much whether we are on the right track as a society in establishing and managing protected areas, but that we are going too slowly, much too slowly, if our aim is to ensure the survival of our fauna.

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Section: Conserving the Marine And Terrestrial Environmentsmentioning

confidence: 99%

“Can we reverse the machinery which has ground down so much of this country?” The value of protected areas for fauna conservation: Editors' Prologue

Lunney

Hutchings

Dickman

2017

Australian Zoologist

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“…Despite the logistical problems of systematic collection, lack of taxonomic capacity has led to large and growing amounts of unsorted material from oceanographic cruises and inshore surveys housed in all Australian natural history museums and laboratories [44,45]. While the capacity for taxonomic identification is limited, the available data on identified material from the Australasian region is far more accessible with museum collection data continually being uploaded to Australian Faunal Directory (AFD) and to the Atlas of Living Australia (ALA).…”

Section: The State Of Knowledge Of Tropical Marine Biodiversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

Some Implications of High Biodiversity for Management of Tropical Marine Ecosystems—An Australian Perspective

Kenchington

Hutchings

2017

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While high biodiversity has been widely reported from the tropics, we suggest that in reality there is a considerable underestimate of the total biodiversity. We have concentrated on the tropical regions of Australia and the Coral Triangle. The best known groups are the corals, fish, and commercially important invertebrates. In considering whether this is true, we have concentrated on the diversity of benthic communities and water column communities which are poorly known. Yet at the bottom of the food chain these communities are highly dynamic and susceptible to the anthropogenic changes that are occurring with the rapid development in this highly populated region. Tropical biodiversity is under increasing stress from a synergistic combination of changes in climate, oceanographic regimes, increasing coastal development, overfishing, and poor water quality, resulting in bleaching of corals and loss of habitat and of associated fauna. These changes on reefs have received substantial research attention; in comparison, there is limited data on inter-reefal areas and water column communities and limited understanding of the ecological interconnectivity of all these habitats. While in this region there is growing marine protected area coverage, the major focus is on coral reefs with other habitats based on surrogacy with little if any ground-truthing. Within this region, there is limited capacity or inclination to rectify this lack of knowledge of the structure and ecology of the broader non-commercial benthic and pelagic communities. We suggest this lack of knowledge and limited expertise may be widespread throughout the tropics and compromises our ability to understand and predict the changes that are occurring with increasing anthropogenic impacts on these tropical ecosystems.

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“…Such as other known specie of the same genus, N. maiteae was initially obtained by ship-based dredging and grabbing. Despite being the tools used to provide most of the currently available biological data about rhodolith-associated biodiversity (Foster et al, 2013), dredging and grabbing are limited for sampling small invertebrates within rhodoliths' microhabitats, especially the soft bodied, cryptic and infaunal species that can have No. significant roles in food web (Foster et al, 2013;Kenchington and Hutchings, 2012). Only recently the use of SCUBA has been recognized and established as a complimentary tool for sampling such soft-bodied infaunal species (Foster et al, 2013).…”

Section: Marine Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Rhodolith beds are extensive and heterogeneous habitats, and the small spatial scales within the nodules represent and additional challenge for designing comprehensive sampling programs to assess biodiversity patterns. However, considering the increased rates of anthropogenic disturbances (Broderick, 2015), it is clear that the timing needed for extensive sampling is not compatible with the speed at which important management decisions need to be taken (Kenchington and Hutchings, 2012).…”

Section: Marine Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

“…While robust data on species' occurrences and distribution patterns accumulate, and surrogates for biodiversity patterns are developed (Kenchington and Hutchings, 2012), the precautionary principle adopted by IBAMA must be consistently applied in order to safeguard biodiversity and ecosystem services provided by rhodolith beds, as evidenced from recent data about macroalgae (Amado-Filho and PereiraFilho, 2012), fishes (Simon et al, 2016) and the polychaete worm, N. maiteae recorded herein. Instead of pressing IBAMA for rapid licensing, the industries that affect rhodoliths and other megadiversity Brazilian marine ecosystems must, truly, engage in research and conservation initiatives that go beyond the immediate needs of individual exploitation projects.…”

Section: Marine Diversitymentioning

confidence: 99%

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