TY - JOUR
T1 - Polar lessons learned: long-term management based on shared threats in Arctic and Antarctic environments
AU - Bennett, Joseph R
AU - Shaw, Justine D
AU - Terauds, Aleks
AU - Smol, John P
AU - Aerts, Rien
AU - Bergstrom, Dana Michelle
AU - Blais, Jules M
AU - Cheung, William WL
AU - Chown, Steven Loudon
AU - Lea, Mary-Anne
AU - Nielsen, Uffe
AU - Pauly, Daniel
AU - Reimer, Kenneth J (Ken)
AU - Riddle, Martin J
AU - Snape, Ian
AU - Stark, Jonathan S
AU - Tulloch, Vivitskaia
AU - Possingham, Hugh P
PY - 2015
Y1 - 2015
N2 - The Arctic and Antarctic polar regions are subject to multiple environmental threats, arising from both local and ex-situ human activities. We review the major threats to polar ecosystems including the principal stressor, climate change, which interacts with and exacerbates other threats such as pollution, fisheries overexploitation, and the establishment and spread of invasive species. Given the lack of progress in reducing global atmospheric greenhouse-gas emissions, we suggest that managing the threats that interact synergistically with climate change, and that are potentially more tractable, is all the more important in the short to medium term for polar conservation. We show how evidence-based lessons learned from scientific research can be shared between the poles on topics such as contaminant mitigation, biosecurity protocols to reduce species invasions, and the regulation of fisheries and marine environments. Applying these trans-polar lessons in tandem with expansion of international cooperation could substantially improve environmental management in both the Arctic and Antarctic.
AB - The Arctic and Antarctic polar regions are subject to multiple environmental threats, arising from both local and ex-situ human activities. We review the major threats to polar ecosystems including the principal stressor, climate change, which interacts with and exacerbates other threats such as pollution, fisheries overexploitation, and the establishment and spread of invasive species. Given the lack of progress in reducing global atmospheric greenhouse-gas emissions, we suggest that managing the threats that interact synergistically with climate change, and that are potentially more tractable, is all the more important in the short to medium term for polar conservation. We show how evidence-based lessons learned from scientific research can be shared between the poles on topics such as contaminant mitigation, biosecurity protocols to reduce species invasions, and the regulation of fisheries and marine environments. Applying these trans-polar lessons in tandem with expansion of international cooperation could substantially improve environmental management in both the Arctic and Antarctic.
UR - http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1890/140315/epdf
U2 - 10.1890/140315
DO - 10.1890/140315
M3 - Article
SN - 1540-9295
VL - 13
SP - 316
EP - 324
JO - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
JF - Frontiers in Ecology and the Environment
IS - 6
ER -