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{"title":"Avoiding an impending collision in international conservation","authors":"Lovemore Sibanda, Amy Dickman, Courtney Hughes, Jessica Tacey, Emily Madsen, Lessah Mandoloma, Moreangels M. Mbizah, Yolanda Mutinhima, Betty Rono, Salum Kulunge, David Kimaili, Trisha Bhujle, David W. Macdonald, Darragh Hare","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14450","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cobi.14450","url":null,"abstract":"<p>There are long-standing tensions between 2 major movements in international conservation: one emphasizes increasing the area set aside for conservation and the other emphasizes an inclusive, people-centered approach to conservation. The degree to which these movements harmonize or contradict depends largely on how decision makers balance strictly protected areas (PAs) with flexible other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs).</p><p>Over 190 countries have ratified the CBD and committed to the GBF (WWF & IUCN WCPA, <span>2023</span>), but opinions regarding the motivations for and implications of 30×30 are mixed. Proponents are optimistic that it will deliver substantial positive impacts for biodiversity (Waldron et al., <span>2020</span>; Wolff et al., <span>2023</span>), whereas critics argue that it risks prioritizing the goals and interests of people living far from biodiversity-rich areas over those of marginalized IPLCs (Green Economy Coalition, <span>2021</span>; Rudd et al., <span>2021</span>).</p><p>The discourse illuminates tensions between traditional area-based conservation via formal PAs and calls for more inclusive, people-centered approaches (Bakarr, <span>2023</span>; IUCN Africa Protected Areas Congress, <span>2022</span>). The people-centered approach, or inclusive conservation, contends that conservation has traditionally excluded IPLCs from PAs, for example, by preventing sustainable access to and use of wildlife resources (Lo & Jang, <span>2022</span>). Therefore, the people-centered approach seeks to simultaneously conserve biodiversity and improve outcomes for IPLCs who have been or continue to be marginalized by area-based conservation (Raymond et al., <span>2022</span>).</p><p>As conservation researchers and practitioners working in multiple landscapes, we have seen how global conservation movements influence decisions that affect PAs and OECM management and, therefore, IPLCs. We appreciate that 30×30 recognizes OECMs and formal PAs (Cook, <span>2024</span>), but we are concerned that achieving inclusive conservation under 30×30 will depend on how decision makers define and interpret PAs and OECMs. If new PAs and OECMs are designated following traditional exclusionary methods or if PA and OECM management strategies are defined without fully incorporating the rights, values, needs, and concerns of IPLCs, efforts to deliver 30×30 might unintentionally reproduce historical inequalities and reinforce power imbalances associated with colonial forms of conservation (Rudd et al., <span>2021</span>; Willow, <span>2016</span>).</p><p>We therefore see an impending collision at the heart of 30×30. To avoid this collision, the voices of IPLCs must be included in ongoing debates and decision-making about how and where to conserve biodiversity (Sandbrook et al., <span>2023</span>). This could involve establishing, supporting, and expanding comanagement models to ensure conservation measures are aligned with IPLCs","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-02-10","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.14450","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143381818","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Taxonomic and phylogenetic biases in translocated angiosperm plant species across European countries.","authors":"Filipa Coutinho Soares, Maud Mouchet, Anne-Christine Monnet, Nadline Kjelsberg, Alfredo García Fernández, Alexandre Robert, Jean-Baptiste Mihoub, Bruno Colas, François Sarrazin","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14451","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14451","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Conservation translocations are a well-known conservation tool used to reverse the effects of local population extinctions and restore ecosystems. Compared with mammals and birds, plants are underrepresented in translocation programs, and little is known about the potential taxonomic and phylogenetic biases of plant translocation efforts. We aimed to assess how translocated plant species may contribute to the conservation of phylogenetic diversity (PD) among European countries. Focusing on angiosperms across 4 European countries with well-documented flora and comprehensive sampling of translocated plant species, we determined whether species translocations were related to species conservation status with binomial generalized linear mixed models with threat status as a binary response variable. Then, we evaluated the taxonomic and phylogenetic biases of translocated plant species relative to national floras based on PD and evolutionary distinctiveness (ED). To evaluate PD and ED, we constructed null models to assess the deviation of observed values from those expected under a scenario in which translocated species were randomly sampled from the species pool of national floras in each country. Although most species lacked conservation status assessment, plant translocations mainly targeted species with high extinction risk at national, European, and global scales. Although plant orders with a higher representativeness of translocated species also tended to have a higher representativeness of native species, the probability of species being translocated varied significantly across plant order, suggesting a significant taxonomic bias. Based on null models and considering all countries, PD and mean ED of translocated plants were higher than expected by chance in most countries. These results suggest that although translocation programs were implemented independently across countries, the diversity of translocated plant species is relevant to conserving PD from national to continental scales and restoring evolutionarily distinct species when these species succeed. We argue that PD indicators should be incorporated into translocation planning to restore target species' evolutionary trajectories and to contribute to conservation of PD.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e14451"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143064128","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Noted with interest","authors":"","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14443","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14443","url":null,"abstract":"&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Power in conservation. Environmental anthropology beyond political ecology&lt;/b&gt;. Carpenter, C. 2020. Routledge, London, UK. x+219 pp. £34.99. ISBN 978-0-367-34250-0.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;We all agree there is real need for conservation interventions to be effective, and Carol Carpenter has some suggestions how to improve effectiveness. She focuses on power in conservation and provides a toolbox of ideas about power relations for users, not simply readers—as she emphasizes. “Most power is well meaning. Most power in conservation does not even know itself as power or as governing. This book is about those sorts of power”—she writes. Money, influence, and coercive control—this is what people often understand under power, but as Carpenter argues, “most of the power in conservation lies with mistaken assumptions conservationists hold about people, misunderstandings about their relation with the environment, and assumptions about our own superior knowledge, and our sense that we have a right to intervene based on that assumed superior knowledge.” The book introduces the different understanding of power by Marx and Foucault and shows what we can learn if we replace the winner and looser opposition of Marx, where power is a fixed property of some agents, with examining concretely how power is generated by and located in different strategies of government, as suggested by Foucault. Carpenter shows, using a great selection of local ethnographies, that the how question is best answered by nuanced ethnographic accounts, where people and nature are seen as inextricably interwoven parts of the same complex system. Reads will learn that a conservationist without at least a basic understanding of how power affects conservation actions is doomed to fail.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;b&gt;Quantifying diets of wildlife and fish: Practical and applied methods&lt;/b&gt;. Calver, M. C., and N. R. Loneragan, editors. 2024. CABI Publishing, Wallingford, UK. ix + 190 pp. £80.00 (paperback). ISBN 978-1-80062-510-5.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Calver and Loneragan focus on the techniques available to study animal diets, rather than on particular groups of organisms or specific environments. They suggest that “cross-pollination” of the different traditions for characterizing the diets of fish versus terrestrial animals can help move the field forward. Different methodological approaches are discussed: direct observation, stomach content analysis, fecal analysis, metabarcoding, fatty acid analysis, stable isotope analysis, field experiments, and multivariate statistical analysis. Each of the 10 chapters is well-written and informative. Although some of the methods are infrequently used to quantify diets, such as direct observation and fatty acid analysis, their inclusion is effective if only to point out their limitations. The desired cross-pollination worked best in the stomach content analysis chapter because this was a common method for fish diet analysis but was rarely done in the wildlife examples cited. There is a strong focus on ","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 2","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/epdf/10.1111/cobi.14443","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143741478","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Coexisting with large carnivores based on the Volterra principle.","authors":"Mark S Boyce, Cecile A E Carpentier, John D C Linnell","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14448","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14448","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Coexistence with large carnivores represents one of the world's highest profile conservation challenges. Ecologists have identified ecological benefits derived from large carnivores (and large herbivores), yet livestock depredation, perceived competition for shared game, risks to pets and humans, and social conflicts often lead to demands for reduction of predator numbers from a range of stakeholder groups. Nearly 100 years ago, Vito Volterra predicted that increased mortality on both prey and predators results in increased abundance of prey and decreased abundance of predators. This principle appears to be robust and often consistent with the objectives of wildlife management. Although seldom recognized, and rarely tested in the field, the Volterra principle is a fundamental outcome of ecological theory with important implications for conservation.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e14448"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-28","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143058413","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effects of protection on large-bodied reef fishes in the western Indian Ocean.","authors":"Melita Samoilys, Kennedy E Osuka, Ronan Roche, Heather Koldewey, Pascale Chabanet","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14430","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14430","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Predatory and large-bodied coral reef fishes have fundamental roles in the functioning and biodiversity of coral reef ecosystems, but their populations are declining, largely due to overexploitation in fisheries. These fishes include sharks, groupers, Humphead wrasse (Cheilinus undulatus), and Green Humphead parrotfish (Bolbometopon muricatum). In the western Indian Ocean, this situation is exacerbated by limited population data on these fishes, including from conventional visual census methods, which limit the surface area surveyed. We developed a rapid timed scuba swim survey approach for application over large areas for estimation of the abundance of large-bodied reef fishes and assessment of the effectiveness of marine protected areas (MPAs) in maintaining these species' populations. Using this method, we sampled 7 regions in the western central Indian Ocean and Gulf of Aden, including 2 remote reference locations where fishing is prohibited. Eight families were selected for the surveys from across 3 categories: pelagic, demersal, and large-bodied single species. Sharks (Carcharhinidae) were absent in 5 of the 7 regions, observed only in Mozambique and the Chagos Archipelago. Tunas (Scombridae) and barracudas (Sphyraenidae) were rarely observed (none in Madagascar, Djibouti, and Iles Glorieuses). The Giant grouper (Epinephelus lanceolatus) was absent in all regions, Humphead wrasse was absent in Comoros and Iles Glorieuses, and Green Humphead parrotfish was observed at only one site in Tanzania. The MPAs were not effective in protecting these single large-bodied species or the 4 pelagic families, except for sharks in the highly protected reference locations. However, MPAs with medium levels of protection were effective in maintaining the abundance of some demersal families, notably large-bodied groupers. Our results support the hypothesis of local extirpation of these large-bodied fishes on many coral reefs in the western Indian Ocean.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e14430"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143032518","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Effect of reserve protection level and governance on tree cover loss and gain.","authors":"Natasha Stoudmann, Jason Byrne, Vanessa Adams","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14449","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14449","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Terrestrial protected areas are essential for biodiversity conservation, yet it is not fully understood when and how different types of protected areas are most effective in achieving specific conservation objectives. We assessed the impact of reserves on tree cover loss and gain through a case study in Tasmania, Australia. We considered varying protection levels (strict, where human activities are restricted, and multiple use) and governance types (public and private). We used a counterfactual matching approach to compare tree cover loss and gain between reserves and matched unprotected areas from 2004 to 2021. We accounted for forest policy changes, environmental covariates, and human pressures to reduce placement bias. We also characterized reserves by size, governance, management, and vegetation and compared covariates inside and outside reserves to define baseline conditions. Reserves established from 2004 to 2016 were overall 75.4% less likely to have lost tree cover and 16.0% more likely to have had tree cover gain compared with controls. Patterns of loss and gain varied by protection level and governance type. Multiple-use reserves were as effective as reserves in which human activities were more restricted. Privately managed reserves contributed to tree cover growth, and public reserves helped avoid loss. This highlights reserves' distinct contributions to conservation targets, with private reserves allowing for growth and restoration and public reserves acting as stable anchor points. Our results emphasize the importance of having a diverse array of protected areas to enhance the resilience of reserve networks. We advocate for adaptive regional measures and robust monitoring to achieve global ecological targets.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e14449"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-24","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143032517","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"An interdisciplinary approach to improving conservation outcomes for parasites","authors":"Timothy M. Brown,&nbsp;Alison M. Dunn,&nbsp;Rupert J. Quinnell,&nbsp;Ellen Clarke,&nbsp;Andrew A. Cunningham,&nbsp;Simon J. Goodman","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14431","DOIUrl":"10.1111/cobi.14431","url":null,"abstract":"<p>Parasites represent a significant proportion of Earth's biodiversity and play important roles in the ecology and biology of ecosystems and hosts, making them an important target for conservation. Despite increasing calls to prioritize protection for parasites in the academic literature, they remain undervalued and underrepresented in global biodiversity conservation efforts, not least due to the perception that the interests of parasite and host conservation are opposing and the common misconception that parasites are a threat, rather than a benefit, to conservation. We considered whether taking an interdisciplinary approach to parasite conservation research will generate novel insights and solutions concerning why and how parasite conservation should be practiced for the benefit of parasites, their hosts, ecosystems, and people. We argue that 2 of the main barriers to more widespread parasite conservation are the knowledge gap concerning the role of sociocultural factors affecting the willingness to enact parasite conservation and the lack of a consistent and cohesive philosophical basis for parasite conservation. Possible sociocultural barriers to parasite conservation include misconceptions of the risks posed by parasites, taxonomic bias, differences in conservation values, economic constraints, and technical challenges. The use of social science can generate insights into levels of awareness and support for parasite conservation and improve understanding of how human values and attitudes mediate conservation practices concerning parasites. Such knowledge will have a critical role in addressing sociocultural barriers and improving support for parasite conservation. Issues with the current philosophical basis for parasite conservation include contradictory accounts of which parasites merit conservation, insufficient explanation of how different conservation values apply to parasite biodiversity, and the existence of a false antagonism between host and parasite conservation. Greater engagement with philosophical work on environmental ethics and biological unitization will strengthen existing arguments for parasite conservation and will support conservation decision-making processes.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":"39 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-19","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC11780194/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143001582","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"A roadmap to sustainable management of commercial medicinal and aromatic plants, fungi, and lichens in Nepal.","authors":"Carsten Smith-Hall, Dipesh Pyakurel, Thorsten Treue, Mariève Pouliot, Suresh Ghimire, Anastasiya Timoshyna, Henrik Meilby","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14442","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14442","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Thousands of plants, fungi, and lichen species are traded every year. Although sustainable use is critical for livelihoods and biodiversity conservation, insufficient data prevent detailed sustainability assessments for most species. How can the sustainability of trade in such data-deficient species be enhanced? We considered a country-level example of 300 medicinal and aromatic plant, fungus, and lichen species traded in tens of thousands of tons worth tens of millions of US dollars in and from Nepal annually. Past interventions have not ensured sustainable trade, leaving species vulnerable to commercial harvesting and threatening rural household incomes, the processing industry, and government revenues. Building on documented evidence and stakeholder involvement, we used a theory of change approach to develop a sustainable management approach. We produced a draft plan (roadmap) by combining interventions proposed at annual key stakeholder dialogue meetings with recommendations extracted from a literature review on the trade and conservation of commercial medicinal and aromatic plants, fungi, and lichens in Nepal. The draft roadmap was discussed at a national workshop with sector-wide stakeholder representation to derive the final roadmap. The literature review showed the 41 causal assumptions and theoretical explanations for actions and outcomes. Feedback mechanisms included 6 bundles of mutually reinforcing actions, such as the relationship between increased cultivation and decreased wild harvesting. The roadmap has 5 pathways: increase cultivation, strengthen local management, support domestic businesses, improve sector governance, and increase international collaboration. Each pathway is associated with 2-5 actions (e.g., hand over high-elevation areas to local communities) that lead to outputs (2-5) (e.g., an increased area under local management) and outcomes (2-6) (e.g., less overharvesting). Accordingly, the roadmap offers stakeholders a structured approach to implement future activities and investments to enhance sustainable trade. The approach can be replicated for other countries and products.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e14442"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143001579","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Epistemological dimensions of Indigenous honey collection in the Kattunaicken community of South India.","authors":"Antony Jacob Sebastian","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14441","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14441","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Indigenous ecological knowledge (IEK) has proven effective in environmental governance, forest management, and sustainable development, yet it is threatened by globalization and rapid social-ecological changes. In southern India, I investigated the engagement of the Kattunaicken community with the forest, particularly through honey collection, to explore the connection between their Indigenous epistemological identity and their role in caring for the forest and its inhabitants. I conducted 48 interviews and accompanied 11 forest walks as part of walking ethnography with male community members, who are primarily involved in honey collection within the Wayanad district of Kerala. The Kattunaicken identity was intrinsically linked to their knowledge of the forest, with reciprocal epistemological interactions between the community and forest entities (trees, animals, and bees). Honey collection emerged as an epistemological endeavor, manifesting their Indigenous identity through the collective \"knowing\" of the forest that encompassed sensorial, ethical, and metaphysical dimensions that facilitated harmonious coexistence and care for the forest and its inhabitants. The Kattunaicken world of knowing challenges extractivist interpretations of nontimber forest product collection, emphasizing the importance of Indigenous epistemologies in shaping alternative knowledge construction for forest conservation. Their epistemological framework highlights care as an active process emerging from collective understanding and negotiation among all entities within their shared epistemic realm, fostering a harmonious coexistence that transcends conservation efforts.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e14441"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-17","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143001593","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}

{"title":"Downscaling global reference points to assess the sustainability of local fisheries.","authors":"Jessica Zamborain-Mason, Sean R Connolly, M Aaron MacNeil, Michele L Barnes, Andrew G Bauman, David A Feary, Victor Huertas, Fraser A Januchowski-Hartley, Jacqueline D Lau, Michalis Mihalitsis, Joshua E Cinner","doi":"10.1111/cobi.14440","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1111/cobi.14440","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Multispecies coral reef fisheries are typically managed by local communities who often lack research and monitoring capacity, which prevents estimation of well-defined sustainable reference points to perform locally relevant fishery assessments. Recent research modeling coral reef fisheries globally has estimated multispecies sustainable reference points (i.e., the maximum reef fish yields that can be harvested sustainably and the corresponding reef fish standing biomass at which those are expected to be achieved) based on environmental indicators. These global reference points are a promising tool for assessing data-poor reef fisheries but need to be downscaled to be relevant to resource practitioners. Using a small-scale multispecies reef fishery in Papua New Guinea, we estimated sustainable reference points and assessed the sustainability of the fishery by integrating global-scale analyses with local-scale environmental conditions (i.e., coral cover, sea surface temperature, ocean productivity, and whether the reef is an atoll), reef area, fish catch and standing biomass estimates, and fishers' perceptions. Local-scale relevant data were obtained from a combination of remote sensing products, underwater visual censuses, catch surveys, and household structured social surveys. Our sustainability assessment based on downscaled estimated sustainable reference points was consistent with local fishers' perceptions. Specifically, our downscaled results suggested that the fishing community was overfishing their reef fish stocks and stocks were below biomass levels that maximize production, making the overall reef fishery unsustainable. These results were consistent with fisher perceptions that reef fish stocks were declining in abundance and mean fish length and that fishers had to spend more time finding fish. Our downscaled site-level assessment revealed severe local resource exploitation, the dynamics of which were masked in national-scale assessments, emphasizing the importance of matching assessments to the scale of management. Overall, we show how global reference points can be applied locally when long-term data are not available, providing baseline assessments for sustainably managing previously unassessed multispecies reef fisheries around the globe.</p>","PeriodicalId":10689,"journal":{"name":"Conservation Biology","volume":" ","pages":"e14440"},"PeriodicalIF":5.2,"publicationDate":"2025-01-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"143001590","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":1,"RegionCategory":"环境科学与生态学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}