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Social-ecological alignment and ecological conditions in coral reefs
Complex social-ecological interactions underpin many environmental problems. To help capture this complexity, we advance an interdisciplinary network modeling framework to identify important relationships between people and nature that can influence environmental conditions. Drawing on comprehensive...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6499785/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31053708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09994-1 |
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author | Barnes, Michele L. Bodin, Örjan McClanahan, Tim R. Kittinger, John N. Hoey, Andrew S. Gaoue, Orou G. Graham, Nicholas A. J. |
author_facet | Barnes, Michele L. Bodin, Örjan McClanahan, Tim R. Kittinger, John N. Hoey, Andrew S. Gaoue, Orou G. Graham, Nicholas A. J. |
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description | Complex social-ecological interactions underpin many environmental problems. To help capture this complexity, we advance an interdisciplinary network modeling framework to identify important relationships between people and nature that can influence environmental conditions. Drawing on comprehensive social and ecological data from five coral reef fishing communities in Kenya; including interviews with 648 fishers, underwater visual census data of reef ecosystem condition, and time-series landings data; we show that positive ecological conditions are associated with ‘social-ecological network closure’ – i.e., fully linked and thus closed network structures between social actors and ecological resources. Our results suggest that when fishers facing common dilemmas form cooperative communication ties with direct resource competitors, they may achieve positive gains in reef fish biomass and functional richness. Our work provides key empirical insight to a growing body of research on social-ecological alignment, and helps to advance an integrative framework that can be applied empirically in different social-ecological contexts. |
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spelling | pubmed-64997852019-05-06 Social-ecological alignment and ecological conditions in coral reefs Barnes, Michele L. Bodin, Örjan McClanahan, Tim R. Kittinger, John N. Hoey, Andrew S. Gaoue, Orou G. Graham, Nicholas A. J. Nat Commun Article Complex social-ecological interactions underpin many environmental problems. To help capture this complexity, we advance an interdisciplinary network modeling framework to identify important relationships between people and nature that can influence environmental conditions. Drawing on comprehensive social and ecological data from five coral reef fishing communities in Kenya; including interviews with 648 fishers, underwater visual census data of reef ecosystem condition, and time-series landings data; we show that positive ecological conditions are associated with ‘social-ecological network closure’ – i.e., fully linked and thus closed network structures between social actors and ecological resources. Our results suggest that when fishers facing common dilemmas form cooperative communication ties with direct resource competitors, they may achieve positive gains in reef fish biomass and functional richness. Our work provides key empirical insight to a growing body of research on social-ecological alignment, and helps to advance an integrative framework that can be applied empirically in different social-ecological contexts. Nature Publishing Group UK 2019-05-03 /pmc/articles/PMC6499785/ /pubmed/31053708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09994-1 Text en © The Author(s) 2019 Open Access This article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons license, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article’s Creative Commons license, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article’s Creative Commons license and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this license, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Article Barnes, Michele L. Bodin, Örjan McClanahan, Tim R. Kittinger, John N. Hoey, Andrew S. Gaoue, Orou G. Graham, Nicholas A. J. Social-ecological alignment and ecological conditions in coral reefs |
title | Social-ecological alignment and ecological conditions in coral reefs |
title_full | Social-ecological alignment and ecological conditions in coral reefs |
title_fullStr | Social-ecological alignment and ecological conditions in coral reefs |
title_full_unstemmed | Social-ecological alignment and ecological conditions in coral reefs |
title_short | Social-ecological alignment and ecological conditions in coral reefs |
title_sort | social-ecological alignment and ecological conditions in coral reefs |
topic | Article |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6499785/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31053708 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-019-09994-1 |
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