Co-occurrence of biodiversity, carbon storage, coastal protection, and fish and invertebrate production to inform global mangrove conservation planning
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Brown, Christopher J
McGowan, Jennifer
Turschwell, Mischa P
Buelow, Christina A
Holgate, Briana
Pearson, Ryan M
Adame, Maria F
Andradi-Brown, Dominic A
Arnell, Andy
Mackey, Brendan G
Ermgassen, Philine SE Zu
Gosling, Joe
McOwen, Chris J
Connolly, Rod M
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Mangrove forests support unique biodiversity and provide a suite of ecosystem services (ES) that benefit people. Decades of continual mangrove loss and degradation have necessitated global efforts to protect and restore this important ecosystem. Generating and evaluating asset maps of biodiversity and ES is an important precursor to identifying locations that can deliver conservation outcomes across varying scales, such as maximising the co-occurrence of specific ES. We bring together global datasets on mangrove-affiliated biodiversity, carbon stocks, fish and invertebrate production, and coastal protection to provide insight into potential trade-offs, synergies and opportunities from mangrove conservation. We map opportunities where high ES provision co-occurs with these areas that could be leveraged in conservation planning, and identify potential high-value opportunities for single ES that might otherwise be missed with a biodiversity focus. Hotspots of single ES, co-occurrence of multiple ES, and opportunities to simultaneously leverage biodiversity and ES occurred throughout the world. For example, efforts that focus on conserving or restoring mangroves to store carbon can be targed to deliver multiple ES benefits. Some nations, such as Vietnam, Oman, Ecuador and China, showed consistent (although not necessarily strong) correlations between ES pairs. A lack of clear or consistent spatial trends elsewhere suggests that some nations will likely benefit more from complementarity-based approaches that focus on multiple sites with high provision of different services. Individual sites within these nations, however, such as Laguna de Terminos in Mexico still provide valuable opportunities to leverage co-benefits. Ensuring that an ES focused approach is complemented by strategic spatial planning is a priority, and our analyses provide a precursor towards decisions about where and how to invest.
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Science of The Total Environment
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904
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© 2023 The Authors. Published by Elsevier B.V. This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).
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Conservation and biodiversity
Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology)
Blue carbon
Ecosystem-based management
Fisheries
Restoration
Spatial-planning
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Sievers, M; Brown, CJ; McGowan, J; Turschwell, MP; Buelow, CA; Holgate, B; Pearson, RM; Adame, MF; Andradi-Brown, DA; Arnell, A; Mackey, BG; Ermgassen, PSEZ; Gosling, J; McOwen, CJ; Connolly, RM; et al., Co-occurrence of biodiversity, carbon storage, coastal protection, and fish and invertebrate production to inform global mangrove conservation planning, Science of The Total Environment, 2023, 904, pp. 166357