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Sovereign states in the Caribbean have lower social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching than overseas territories

Coral reef social-ecological systems worldwide face major impacts from climate change, and spatial variation in vulnerability is driven by differential exposure to climatic threats, ecological and socio-economic sensitivity to those threats, ecological recovery potential, and socio-economic adaptive...

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Autores principales: Siegel, Katherine J., Cabral, Reniel B., McHenry, Jennifer, Ojea, Elena, Owashi, Brandon, Lester, Sarah E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Royal Society 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6408901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30963826
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2365
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author Siegel, Katherine J.
Cabral, Reniel B.
McHenry, Jennifer
Ojea, Elena
Owashi, Brandon
Lester, Sarah E.
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description Coral reef social-ecological systems worldwide face major impacts from climate change, and spatial variation in vulnerability is driven by differential exposure to climatic threats, ecological and socio-economic sensitivity to those threats, ecological recovery potential, and socio-economic adaptive capacity. We assess variation in social-ecological vulnerability to climate change-induced coral bleaching, specifically for reef-based fisheries and tourism, of islands throughout the insular Caribbean, thus providing the first region-wide quantitative analysis of island-scale social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching. We show that different components of vulnerability have distinct spatial patterns and that variability in overall vulnerability is driven more by socio-economic than ecological components. Importantly, we find that sovereign islands are less vulnerable on average than overseas territories and that the presence of fisheries management regulations is a significant predictor of adaptive capacity and socio-economic sensitivity, with important implications for island-level governance and policies to reduce climate vulnerability.
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spelling pubmed-64089012019-03-19 Sovereign states in the Caribbean have lower social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching than overseas territories Siegel, Katherine J. Cabral, Reniel B. McHenry, Jennifer Ojea, Elena Owashi, Brandon Lester, Sarah E. Proc Biol Sci Global Change and Conservation Coral reef social-ecological systems worldwide face major impacts from climate change, and spatial variation in vulnerability is driven by differential exposure to climatic threats, ecological and socio-economic sensitivity to those threats, ecological recovery potential, and socio-economic adaptive capacity. We assess variation in social-ecological vulnerability to climate change-induced coral bleaching, specifically for reef-based fisheries and tourism, of islands throughout the insular Caribbean, thus providing the first region-wide quantitative analysis of island-scale social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching. We show that different components of vulnerability have distinct spatial patterns and that variability in overall vulnerability is driven more by socio-economic than ecological components. Importantly, we find that sovereign islands are less vulnerable on average than overseas territories and that the presence of fisheries management regulations is a significant predictor of adaptive capacity and socio-economic sensitivity, with important implications for island-level governance and policies to reduce climate vulnerability. The Royal Society 2019-02-27 2019-02-20 /pmc/articles/PMC6408901/ /pubmed/30963826 http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2365 Text en © 2019 The Authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by the Royal Society under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/, which permits unrestricted use, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Siegel, Katherine J.
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McHenry, Jennifer
Ojea, Elena
Owashi, Brandon
Lester, Sarah E.
Sovereign states in the Caribbean have lower social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching than overseas territories
title Sovereign states in the Caribbean have lower social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching than overseas territories
title_full Sovereign states in the Caribbean have lower social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching than overseas territories
title_fullStr Sovereign states in the Caribbean have lower social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching than overseas territories
title_full_unstemmed Sovereign states in the Caribbean have lower social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching than overseas territories
title_short Sovereign states in the Caribbean have lower social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching than overseas territories
title_sort sovereign states in the caribbean have lower social-ecological vulnerability to coral bleaching than overseas territories
topic Global Change and Conservation
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6408901/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30963826
http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rspb.2018.2365
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