Prioritizing forest management actions to benefit marine habitats in data-poor regions.

ABSTRACT: Land-use change is considered one of the greatest human threats to marine ecosystems globally. Given limited resources for conservation, we adapted and scaled up a spatially explicit, linked land-sea decision support tool using open access global geospatial data sets and software to inform the prioritization of future forest management interventions that can have the greatest benefit on marine conservation in Vanuatu. We leveraged and compared outputs from two global marine habitat maps to prioritize land areas for forest conservation and restoration that can maximize sediment retention, water quality, and healthy coastal/marine ecosystems. By combining the outputs obtained from both marine habitat maps, we incorporated elements unique to each and provided higher confidence in our prioriti

SUBMITTER: Delevaux JMS 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9293477 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature