Banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO: FABRICIO CLAUDINO DE ALBUQUERQUE

Uma banca de QUALIFICAÇÃO de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.
STUDENT : FABRICIO CLAUDINO DE ALBUQUERQUE
DATE: 28/01/2022
TIME: 14:00
LOCAL: Google- Meet
TITLE:

Marine protected areas and Brazilian corals: what are we protecting?

KEY WORDS:

MPA; Tropicalization; Global warming; Climate change; Gap analysis

PAGES: 28
BIG AREA: Ciências Biológicas
AREA: Ecologia
SUMMARY:

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are important mechanisms for the conservation of reef environments, reducing local impacts such as pollution and overfishing, and helping corals survive to global bleaching events. However, many of these areas do not consider climate change in their planning, which may reduce the future protection of corals given the likely change in the distribution of these species. We conducted a diagnostic to understand the representativeness of zooxantelated shallow-water scleractinian corals among the categories and jurisdictions of the current MPAs network in Brazil. We used gap analysis to investigate changes in the representativeness of MPAs in the future under the most extreme scenario predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, RCP 8.5), for the entire Brazilian province considering six ecoregions. We observe that all coral species are included in MPAs of some category and that there are no differences in communities composition between categories or jurisdictions. MPAs are in the most suitable locations for corals in current and future projections, being mainly represented by sustainable use categories which tend to be more permissive. As environmental conditions change, subtropical regions will have increases in suitability and could be key areas for corals in the future. herefore, adopting measures that incorporate climate change may favor the survival of these organisms.

BANKING MEMBERS:
Externa à Instituição - DANIELE ALVES VILA NOVA
Presidente - 2319234 - GUILHERME ORTIGARA LONGO
Externo à Instituição - MARIANA BENDER GOMES - UFSM