Banca de DEFESA: FABRICIO CLAUDINO DE ALBUQUERQUE
Uma banca de DEFESA de MESTRADO foi cadastrada pelo programa.STUDENT : FABRICIO CLAUDINO DE ALBUQUERQUE
DATE: 25/02/2022
TIME: 08:30
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: 51
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 these species’ distribution. We evaluated the representativeness of zooxantelate shallow-water scleractinian corals in the categories and jurisdictions of the current MPAs network in Brazil. We used gap analysis to investigate changes in future MPA representativeness along the Brazilian province, under the most extreme scenario predicted by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC, RCP 8.5). We observed that 21 coral species are included in sustainable use and 19 in strict protection MPAs, and there are no predicted differences in coral assemblage composition between categories or jurisdictions. MPAs are located where there is highest occurrence probability for corals in current and future projections, being mostly represented by the sustainable use categories. As environmental conditions change, subtropical regions will experience increases in coral occurrence probability and these may turn into key areas for coral conservation in the future. Therefore, adopting actions which incorporate climate change in the planning of MPAs may contribute to the survival of these organisms.
BANKING MEMBERS:
Presidente - 2319234 - GUILHERME ORTIGARA LONGO
Externa à Instituição - HELOÍSA DANTAS BRUM
Externo à Instituição - MARIANA BENDER GOMES - UFSM