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Managing a sustainable deep-sea ‘blue economy’ requires knowledge of what actually lives there
Ensuring that the wealth of resources contained in our oceans are managed and developed in a sustainable manner is a priority for the emerging 'blue economy'. However, modern ecosystem-based management approaches do not translate well to regions where we know almost nothing about the indiv...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6257809/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30479272 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.41319 |
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author | Glover, Adrian G Wiklund, Helena Chen, Chong Dahlgren, Thomas G |
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description | Ensuring that the wealth of resources contained in our oceans are managed and developed in a sustainable manner is a priority for the emerging 'blue economy'. However, modern ecosystem-based management approaches do not translate well to regions where we know almost nothing about the individual species found in the ecosystem. Here, we propose a new taxon-focused approach to deep-sea conservation that includes regulatory oversight to set targets for the delivery of taxonomic data. For example, a five-year plan to deliver taxonomic and genomic knowledge on a thousand species in regions of the ocean earmarked for industrial activity is an achievable target. High-throughput, integrative taxonomy can, therefore, provide the data that is needed to monitor various ecosystem services (such as the natural history, connectivity, value and function of species) and to help break the regulatory deadlock of high-seas conservation. |
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spelling | pubmed-62578092018-11-27 Managing a sustainable deep-sea ‘blue economy’ requires knowledge of what actually lives there Glover, Adrian G Wiklund, Helena Chen, Chong Dahlgren, Thomas G eLife Ecology Ensuring that the wealth of resources contained in our oceans are managed and developed in a sustainable manner is a priority for the emerging 'blue economy'. However, modern ecosystem-based management approaches do not translate well to regions where we know almost nothing about the individual species found in the ecosystem. Here, we propose a new taxon-focused approach to deep-sea conservation that includes regulatory oversight to set targets for the delivery of taxonomic data. For example, a five-year plan to deliver taxonomic and genomic knowledge on a thousand species in regions of the ocean earmarked for industrial activity is an achievable target. High-throughput, integrative taxonomy can, therefore, provide the data that is needed to monitor various ecosystem services (such as the natural history, connectivity, value and function of species) and to help break the regulatory deadlock of high-seas conservation. eLife Sciences Publications, Ltd 2018-11-27 /pmc/articles/PMC6257809/ /pubmed/30479272 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.41319 Text en © 2018, Glover et al http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This article is distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) , which permits unrestricted use and redistribution provided that the original author and source are credited. |
spellingShingle | Ecology Glover, Adrian G Wiklund, Helena Chen, Chong Dahlgren, Thomas G Managing a sustainable deep-sea ‘blue economy’ requires knowledge of what actually lives there |
title | Managing a sustainable deep-sea ‘blue economy’ requires knowledge of what actually lives there |
title_full | Managing a sustainable deep-sea ‘blue economy’ requires knowledge of what actually lives there |
title_fullStr | Managing a sustainable deep-sea ‘blue economy’ requires knowledge of what actually lives there |
title_full_unstemmed | Managing a sustainable deep-sea ‘blue economy’ requires knowledge of what actually lives there |
title_short | Managing a sustainable deep-sea ‘blue economy’ requires knowledge of what actually lives there |
title_sort | managing a sustainable deep-sea ‘blue economy’ requires knowledge of what actually lives there |
topic | Ecology |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6257809/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30479272 http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.41319 |
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