Bright spots as climate-smart marine spatial planning tools for conservation and blue growth.

ABSTRACT: Marine spatial planning that addresses ocean climate-driven change ('climate-smart MSP') is a global aspiration to support economic growth, food security and ecosystem sustainability. Ocean climate change ('CC') modelling may become a key decision-support tool for MSP, but traditional modelling analysis and communication challenges prevent their broad uptake. We employed MSP-specific ocean climate modelling analyses to inform a real-life MSP process; addressing how nature conservation and fisheries could be adapted to CC. We found that the currently planned distribution of these activities may become unsustainable during the policy's implementation due to CC, leading to a shortfall in its sustainability and blue growth targets. Significant, climate-driven ecosystem-level shifts in ocean co

SUBMITTER: Queiros AM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9291121 | biostudies-literature | 2021 Nov

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature