Australian Institute of Marine Science, Townsville, QLD, Australia.
Science. 2023 Aug 11;381(6658):631-636. doi: 10.1126/science.adi3023. Epub 2023 Aug 10.
Australia's coastal marine ecosystems have a deep cultural significance to Indigenous Australians, include multiple World Heritage sites, and support the nation's rapidly growing blue economy. Yet, increasing local pressures and global climate change are expected to undermine the biological, social, cultural, and economic value of these ecosystems within a human generation. Mitigating the causes of climate change is the most urgent action to secure their future; however, conventional and new management actions will play roles in preserving ecosystem function and value until that is achieved. This includes strategies codeveloped with Indigenous Australians that are guided by traditional ecological knowledge and a modeling and decision support framework. We provide examples of developments at one of Australia's most iconic ecosystems, the Great Barrier Reef, where recent, large block funding supports research, governance, and engagement to accelerate the development of tools for management under climate change.
澳大利亚的沿海海洋生态系统对澳大利亚原住民具有深远的文化意义，包括多个世界遗产地，并支撑着该国快速发展的蓝色经济。然而，当地压力的不断增加和全球气候变化预计将在一代人的时间内破坏这些生态系统的生物、社会、文化和经济价值。缓解气候变化的原因是确保其未来的最紧迫行动；然而，在实现这一目标之前，传统和新的管理措施将在保护生态系统功能和价值方面发挥作用。这包括与澳大利亚原住民共同制定的战略，这些战略以传统生态知识为指导，并以建模和决策支持框架为依据。我们提供了澳大利亚最具标志性的生态系统之一——大堡礁的发展情况，最近获得的大量资金支持了研究、治理和参与，以加速开发适应气候变化的管理工具。
