Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell'Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, 60131, Italy.
Departamento de Biologia, Universidade de Aveiro, Aveiro, 3810-193, Portugal.
Mar Environ Res. 2022 Jul;179:105686. doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2022.105686. Epub 2022 Jun 17.
Savalia savaglia is an ecosystem engineer listed as Near-Threatened by the IUCN, even though effective management and proper monitoring efforts to assess its distribution is still lacking. The record of large, long-established colonies can indicate the occurrence of areas with limited human local pressure. These areas may be considered as proxies for the creation of baselines of reference useful to design restoration strategies. The aim of this work was to update the distribution of S. savaglia Mediterranean populations to develop an Ecological Niche Model, highlighting potential areas for future monitoring programs. Occurrence data were collected and harmonized into a single dataset using the scientific literature and validated observations to feed a presence-only MaxEnt model, obtaining a basin-level potential distribution of the species. The results of our study can support decision-makers in marine spatial planning measures including the preservation of mesophotic environments and prioritizing areas for conservation.
萨瓦利亚萨瓦利亚是生态系统工程师，被 IUCN 列为近危物种，尽管仍缺乏有效的管理和适当的监测工作来评估其分布情况。大型、历史悠久的殖民地的记录可以表明，在这些地区人类的局部压力有限。这些地区可以被视为建立基线的代理，这对于设计恢复策略非常有用。这项工作的目的是更新地中海地区 S. savaglia 种群的分布情况，以建立生态位模型，突出未来监测计划的潜在区域。通过科学文献和验证观测收集并协调发生数据，以输入存在模型 MaxEnt，获得物种的流域水平潜在分布。我们研究的结果可以为决策者在海洋空间规划措施中提供支持，包括保护中层环境和优先保护区域。
