Opportunities for Protecting and Restoring Tropical Coastal Ecosystems by Utilizing a Physical Connectivity Approach
Effectively managing human pressures on tropical seascapes (mangrove forests, seagrass beds, and coral reefs) requires innovative approaches that go beyond the ecosystem as the focal unit. Recent advances in scientific understanding of long-distance connectivity via extended ecosystem engineering ef...
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| author | Lucy G. Gillis Clive G. Jones Alan D. Ziegler Daphne van der Wal Annette Breckwoldt Tjeerd J. Bouma |
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| description | Effectively managing human pressures on tropical seascapes (mangrove forests, seagrass beds, and coral reefs) requires innovative approaches that go beyond the ecosystem as the focal unit. Recent advances in scientific understanding of long-distance connectivity via extended ecosystem engineering effects and on-going rapid developments in monitoring and data-sharing technologies provide viable tools for novel management approaches that use positive across-ecosystem interactions (for example, hydrodynamics). Scientists and managers can now use this collective knowledge to develop monitoring and restoration protocols that are specialized for cross ecosystem fluxes (waves, sediments, nutrients) on a site-specific basis for connected tropical seascape (mangrove forests, seagrass beds, and coral reefs). |
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| spelling | doaj.art-84aa4e9df99549a8a246835e3c26e0392022-12-21T18:15:05ZengFrontiers Media S.A.Frontiers in Marine Science2296-77452017-11-01410.3389/fmars.2017.00374263933Opportunities for Protecting and Restoring Tropical Coastal Ecosystems by Utilizing a Physical Connectivity ApproachLucy G. Gillis0Clive G. Jones1Alan D. Ziegler2Daphne van der Wal3Annette Breckwoldt4Tjeerd J. Bouma5Mangrove Ecology, Leibniz-Zentrum für Marine Tropenökologie GmbH, Bremen, GermanyCary Institute of Ecosystem Studies, Millbrook, NY, United StatesGeography Department, National University of Singapore, Singapore, SingaporeEstuarine and Delta Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Yerseke, NetherlandsClimate Sciences, Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Bremerhaven, GermanyEstuarine and Delta Systems, Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research and Utrecht University, Yerseke, NetherlandsEffectively managing human pressures on tropical seascapes (mangrove forests, seagrass beds, and coral reefs) requires innovative approaches that go beyond the ecosystem as the focal unit. Recent advances in scientific understanding of long-distance connectivity via extended ecosystem engineering effects and on-going rapid developments in monitoring and data-sharing technologies provide viable tools for novel management approaches that use positive across-ecosystem interactions (for example, hydrodynamics). Scientists and managers can now use this collective knowledge to develop monitoring and restoration protocols that are specialized for cross ecosystem fluxes (waves, sediments, nutrients) on a site-specific basis for connected tropical seascape (mangrove forests, seagrass beds, and coral reefs).http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00374/fullfacilitationecosystem engineersmangrove forestsseagrass bedscoral reefsmonitoring |
| spellingShingle | Lucy G. Gillis Clive G. Jones Alan D. Ziegler Daphne van der Wal Annette Breckwoldt Tjeerd J. Bouma Opportunities for Protecting and Restoring Tropical Coastal Ecosystems by Utilizing a Physical Connectivity Approach Frontiers in Marine Science facilitation ecosystem engineers mangrove forests seagrass beds coral reefs monitoring |
| title | Opportunities for Protecting and Restoring Tropical Coastal Ecosystems by Utilizing a Physical Connectivity Approach |
| title_full | Opportunities for Protecting and Restoring Tropical Coastal Ecosystems by Utilizing a Physical Connectivity Approach |
| title_fullStr | Opportunities for Protecting and Restoring Tropical Coastal Ecosystems by Utilizing a Physical Connectivity Approach |
| title_full_unstemmed | Opportunities for Protecting and Restoring Tropical Coastal Ecosystems by Utilizing a Physical Connectivity Approach |
| title_short | Opportunities for Protecting and Restoring Tropical Coastal Ecosystems by Utilizing a Physical Connectivity Approach |
| title_sort | opportunities for protecting and restoring tropical coastal ecosystems by utilizing a physical connectivity approach |
| topic | facilitation ecosystem engineers mangrove forests seagrass beds coral reefs monitoring |
| url | http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00374/full |
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