Advancing the climate-biodiversity-fisheries nexus in the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development
Abstract Climate-driven changes in marine ecosystem structure and function adversely impact the biodiversity and sustainability of living marine resources, food security, and the resilience of coastal communities. Understanding how climate change impacts marine ecosystem biodiversity and global fisheries, i.e. the “climate-biodiversity-fisheries nexus”, is a fundamental element of the UN Decade of Ocean Science for Sustainable Development. Several Ocean Decade-endorsed Programmes within the climate-biodiversity-fisheries nexus are building global networks to transform our capacity to understand, forecast, manage, and adapt to climate-driven changes in ocean ecosystems, including sustaining blue food resources that provide essential food security and nutrition in a rapidly changing world. We compare the scope, objectives, global partnerships, and capacities of these Programmes, facilitating effective collaboration and identifying critical gaps in developing solutions to climate-driven changes in marine food webs, species assemblages, and global fisheries. This work complements the Ocean Decade Vision 2030 process by providing an assessment of actions that are underway and guidance to establish new actions needed to monitor and understand marine biodiversity and manage global fisheries within a changing climate. We provide recommendations for new and existing Ocean Decade Actions around the climate-biodiversity-fisheries nexus to help achieve the Ocean Decade outcomes of a “productive, predicted, healthy, and resilient ocean” by 2030.
Authors
- Roger B. Griffis
- Grace Roskar (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4968-1324)
- Katherine E. Mills (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6078-7747)
- Aileen Tan Shau Hwai (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-8690-047X)
- Frank Müller‐Karger (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3159-5011)
- Margaret Leinen (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7982-3661)
- Laura Catherine Anderson
- Michelle Tigchelaar
- Hannah Lachance
- Sophie Seeyave (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4583-2869)
- Sanae Chiba (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-2838-1840)
- Rachel Seary (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7496-8792)
- Claire Enterline
- Steven J. Bograd (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-3872-9932)
- Gabrielle Canonico (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-4251-896X)
- Emanuele Di Lorenzo (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1935-7363)
- Kristin M. Kleisner (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6918-1546)
- Jörn Oliver Schmidt (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-4420-6532)
- Joana Soares (ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7105-2815)
- Edward Gorecki
Institutions
- NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (US)
- Environmental Defense Fund (US)
- Universiti Sains Malaysia (MY)
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography (US)
- Palo Alto University (US)
- University of California, Santa Cruz (US)
- Brown University (US)
- North Pacific Marine Science Organization (CA)
- Partnership for Observation of the Global Ocean (GB)
- International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (DK)
- Gulf of Maine Research Institute (US)
- University of California San Diego (US)
- Office of Science (US)
- NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Southwest Fisheries Science Center (US)
- Hospital de Santo Espirito de Angra do Heroísmo (PT)
- NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service Office of Science and Technology
- University of South Florida St. Petersburg (US)
- WorldFish (MY)
- College of Marin (US)
- Stanford University (US)
Publication Details
- Journal
- ICES Journal of Marine Science
- Published
- 2024-08-20
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1093/icesjms/fsae111
- Citations
- 4
- Primary Topic
- Marine and fisheries research
- Type
- article
- Field-Weighted Citation Impact
- 1.13