Bridging archaeology and marine conservation in the Neotropics.

Autor: Fossile T; Department of Prehistory and Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain., Herbst DF; Department of Prehistory and Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain., McGrath K; Department of Prehistory and Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain., Toso A; Department of Prehistory and Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.; BoCAS, Bonn Center for ArchaeoSciences, Institut für Archäologie und Kulturanthropologie, Rheinische Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität, Bonn, Germany., Giannini PCF; Instituto de Geociências, Universidade de São Paulo, São Paulo, Brazil., Milheira RG; Departamento de Antropologia e Arqueologia, Universidade Federal de Pelotas, Pelotas, Brazil., Gilson SP; Instituto de Ciências Humanas e da Informação, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Rio Grande, Brazil., Ferreira J; Programa em Patrimônio Cultural e Sociedade, Universidade da Região de Joinville, Joinville; Museu Arqueológico de Sambaqui de Joinville, Joinville, Brazil., Bandeira DDR; Programa em Patrimônio Cultural e Sociedade, Universidade da Região de Joinville, Joinville; Museu Arqueológico de Sambaqui de Joinville, Joinville, Brazil., Haimovici M; Universidade Federal do Rio Grande, Instituto de Oceanografia, Rio Grande, RS, Brazil., Ceretta B; Laboratório de Macroecologia e Conservação Marinha, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil., Bender MG; Laboratório de Macroecologia e Conservação Marinha, Universidade Federal de Santa Maria, Santa Maria, Rio Grande do Sul, Brazil., Colonese AC; Department of Prehistory and Institute of Environmental Science and Technology (ICTA-UAB), Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona, Cerdanyola del Vallès, Barcelona, Spain.
Jazyk: angličtina
Zdroj: PloS one [PLoS One] 2023 May 25; Vol. 18 (5), pp. e0285951. Date of Electronic Publication: 2023 May 25 (Print Publication: 2023).
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0285951
Abstrakt: Anthropogenic impacts on tropical and subtropical coastal environments are increasing at an alarming rate, compromising ecosystem functions, structures and services. Understanding the scale of marine population decline and diversity loss requires a long-term perspective that incorporates information from a range of sources. The Southern Atlantic Ocean represents a major gap in our understanding of pre-industrial marine species composition. Here we begin to fill this gap by performing an extensive review of the published data on Middle and Late Holocene marine fish remains along the southern coast of Brazil. This region preserves archaeological sites that are unique archives of past socio-ecological systems and pre-European biological diversity. We assessed snapshots of species compositions and relative abundances spanning the last 9500 years, and modelled differences in species' functional traits between archaeological and modern fisheries. We found evidence for both generalist and specialist fishing practices in pre-European times, with large body size and body mass caught regularly over hundreds of years. Comparison with modern catches revealed a significant decline in these functional traits, possibly associated with overfishing and escalating human impacts in recent times.
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
(Copyright: © 2023 Fossile et al. This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.)
Databáze: MEDLINE
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