Managing Local Stressors for Coral Reef Condition and Ecosystem Services Delivery Under Climate Scenarios.

ABSTRACT: Coral reefs provide numerous ecosystem goods and services, but are threatened by multiple environmental and anthropogenic stressors. To identify management scenarios that will reverse or mitigate ecosystem degradation, managers can benefit from tools that can quantify projected changes in ecosystem services due to alternative management options. We used a spatially-explicit biophysical ecosystem model to evaluate socio-ecological trade-offs of land-based vs. marine-based management scenarios, and local-scale vs. global-scale stressors and their cumulative impacts. To increase the relevance of understanding ecological change for the public and decision-makers, we used four ecological production functions to translate the model outputs into the ecosystem services: "State of the Reef," "Troph

SUBMITTER: Weijerman M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC8193846 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature