TY - JOUR
T1 - Seventy-one important questions for the conservation of marine biodiversity
AU - Parsons, E. C.M.
AU - Favaro, Brett
AU - Aguirre, A. Alonso
AU - Bauer, Amy L.
AU - Blight, Louise K.
AU - Cigliano, John A.
AU - Coleman, Melinda A.
AU - Côté, Isabelle M.
AU - Draheim, Megan
AU - Fletcher, Stephen
AU - Foley, Melissa M.
AU - Jefferson, Rebecca
AU - Jones, Miranda C.
AU - Kelaher, Brendan P.
AU - Lundquist, Carolyn J.
AU - Mccarthy, Julie Beth
AU - Nelson, Anne
AU - Patterson, Katheryn
AU - Walsh, Leslie
AU - Wright, Andrew J.
AU - Sutherland, William J.
PY - 2014/10/1
Y1 - 2014/10/1
N2 - The ocean provides food, economic activity, and cultural value for a large proportion of humanity. Our knowledge of marine ecosystems lags behind that of terrestrial ecosystems, limiting effective protection of marine resources. We describe the outcome of 2 workshops in 2011 and 2012 to establish a list of important questions, which, if answered, would substantially improve our ability to conserve and manage the world's marine resources. Participants included individuals from academia, government, and nongovernment organizations with broad experience across disciplines, marine ecosystems, and countries that vary in levels of development. Contributors from the fields of science, conservation, industry, and government submitted questions to our workshops, which we distilled into a list of priority research questions. Through this process, we identified 71 key questions. We grouped these into 8 subject categories, each pertaining to a broad component of marine conservation: fisheries, climate change, other anthropogenic threats, ecosystems, marine citizenship, policy, societal and cultural considerations, and scientific enterprise. Our questions address many issues that are specific to marine conservation, and will serve as a road map to funders and researchers to develop programs that can greatly benefit marine conservation.
AB - The ocean provides food, economic activity, and cultural value for a large proportion of humanity. Our knowledge of marine ecosystems lags behind that of terrestrial ecosystems, limiting effective protection of marine resources. We describe the outcome of 2 workshops in 2011 and 2012 to establish a list of important questions, which, if answered, would substantially improve our ability to conserve and manage the world's marine resources. Participants included individuals from academia, government, and nongovernment organizations with broad experience across disciplines, marine ecosystems, and countries that vary in levels of development. Contributors from the fields of science, conservation, industry, and government submitted questions to our workshops, which we distilled into a list of priority research questions. Through this process, we identified 71 key questions. We grouped these into 8 subject categories, each pertaining to a broad component of marine conservation: fisheries, climate change, other anthropogenic threats, ecosystems, marine citizenship, policy, societal and cultural considerations, and scientific enterprise. Our questions address many issues that are specific to marine conservation, and will serve as a road map to funders and researchers to develop programs that can greatly benefit marine conservation.
KW - Horizon scanning
KW - Marine biodiversity
KW - Policy
KW - Priority setting
KW - Research agenda
KW - Research questions
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=84907930847&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1111/cobi.12303
DO - 10.1111/cobi.12303
M3 - Article
C2 - 24779474
AN - SCOPUS:84907930847
SN - 0888-8892
VL - 28
SP - 1206
EP - 1214
JO - Conservation Biology
JF - Conservation Biology
IS - 5
ER -