ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies, James Cook University, Townsville, Queensland, Australia.
Lancaster University, Lancaster, Lancashire, UK.
Science. 2020 Apr 17;368(6488):307-311. doi: 10.1126/science.aax9412.
The worldwide decline of coral reefs necessitates targeting management solutions that can sustain reefs and the livelihoods of the people who depend on them. However, little is known about the context in which different reef management tools can help to achieve multiple social and ecological goals. Because of nonlinearities in the likelihood of achieving combined fisheries, ecological function, and biodiversity goals along a gradient of human pressure, relatively small changes in the context in which management is implemented could have substantial impacts on whether these goals are likely to be met. Critically, management can provide substantial conservation benefits to most reefs for fisheries and ecological function, but not biodiversity goals, given their degraded state and the levels of human pressure they face.
全球范围内的珊瑚礁衰退需要针对管理解决方案，以维持珊瑚礁和依赖它们的人们的生计。然而，人们对不同的珊瑚礁管理工具在实现多个社会和生态目标方面的作用知之甚少。由于在人类压力梯度上实现渔业、生态功能和生物多样性目标的可能性是非线性的，管理实施背景中的相对较小变化可能会对这些目标是否可能实现产生重大影响。至关重要的是，考虑到其退化状态和面临的人类压力水平，管理可以为大多数珊瑚礁的渔业和生态功能提供大量保护益处，但对生物多样性目标却无法提供。
