Climate change considerations are fundamental to management of deep‐sea resource extraction

Autor: Harriet Harden-Davies, Daniel C. Dunn, Andrew K. Sweetman, Oliver S. Ashford, Carlos Dominguez-Carrió, Chih-Lin Wei, Khaira Ismail, Moriaki Yasuhara, Paul V. R. Snelgrove, Sandor Mulsow, Diva J. Amon, Satoshi Mitarai, Ana Colaço, Jennifer T. Le, Elva Escobar, Jeffrey C. Drazen, Franck Lejzerowicz, Daniel O.B. Jones, David E. Johnson, Telmo Morato, Lisa A. Levin, William W. L. Cheung
Jazyk: angličtina
Předmět:
0106 biological sciences
Opinion
010504 meteorology & atmospheric sciences
climate projections
deep‐seabed mining
Climate Change
Oceans and Seas
Climate change
larval connectivity modeling
010603 evolutionary biology
01 natural sciences
Mining
12. Responsible consumption
Ecosystem services
environmental management
11. Sustainability
Environmental Chemistry
Humans
14. Life underwater
Ecosystem
0105 earth and related environmental sciences
General Environmental Science
Sustainable development
Global and Planetary Change
Minerals
Ecology
business.industry
Impact assessment
Environmental resource management
conservation
bottom fishing
Biodiversity
15. Life on land
Natural resource
Hazard
biodiversity maintenance
deep ocean
Disturbance (ecology)
13. Climate action
deep-seabed mining
Sustainability
habitat suitability modeling
Environmental science
business
Zdroj: Global Change Biology
ISSN: 1365-2486
1354-1013
DOI: 10.1111/gcb.15223
Popis: Climate change manifestation in the ocean, through warming, oxygen loss, increasing acidification, and changing particulate organic carbon flux (one metric of altered food supply), is projected to affect most deep‐ocean ecosystems concomitantly with increasing direct human disturbance. Climate drivers will alter deep‐sea biodiversity and associated ecosystem services, and may interact with disturbance from resource extraction activities or even climate geoengineering. We suggest that to ensure the effective management of increasing use of the deep ocean (e.g., for bottom fishing, oil and gas extraction, and deep‐seabed mining), environmental management and developing regulations must consider climate change. Strategic planning, impact assessment and monitoring, spatial management, application of the precautionary approach, and full‐cost accounting of extraction activities should embrace climate consciousness. Coupled climate and biological modeling approaches applied in the water and on the seafloor can help accomplish this goal. For example, Earth‐System Model projections of climate‐change parameters at the seafloor reveal heterogeneity in projected climate hazard and time of emergence (beyond natural variability) in regions targeted for deep‐seabed mining. Models that combine climate‐induced changes in ocean circulation with particle tracking predict altered transport of early life stages (larvae) under climate change. Habitat suitability models can help assess the consequences of altered larval dispersal, predict climate refugia, and identify vulnerable regions for multiple species under climate change. Engaging the deep observing community can support the necessary data provisioning to mainstream climate into the development of environmental management plans. To illustrate this approach, we focus on deep‐seabed mining and the International Seabed Authority, whose mandates include regulation of all mineral‐related activities in international waters and protecting the marine environment from the harmful effects of mining. However, achieving deep‐ocean sustainability under the UN Sustainable Development Goals will require integration of climate consideration across all policy sectors.
As use of the deep sea and its resources intensifies, consideration of climate change should become integral to planning and management. A suite of climate and biological modeling tools can inform holistic environmental management and decision making for the deep ocean on multiple fronts.
Databáze: OpenAIRE
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