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Mesophotic zone as buffer for biodiversity protection: A promising opportunity to enhance MPA effectiveness

Name: Mesophotic zone as buffer for biodiversity protection: A promising opportunity to enhance MPA effectiveness
Keywords: Conservation of Natural Resources, Climate Change, Twilight zone, Mitigation strategies, Biodiversity, Marine spatial planning, Climate refugia, Italy, 30x30 objectives, Mediterranean Sea

descriptionPublicationkeyboard_double_arrow_right Article 01 Oct 2024 Spain Publisher:Elsevier BVJournal:Marine Environmental Research, volume 201, page 106,676 (issn: 0141-1136,

Authors: Torcuato Pulido Mantas; Camilla Roveta; Barbara Calcinai; Claudia Campanini; Martina Coppari; Pierpaolo Falco; Cristina Gioia Di Camillo; +4 Authors

doi: 10.1016/j.marenvres.2024.106676

pmid: 39142217

handle: 10261/373660

Mesophotic zone as buffer for biodiversity protection: A promising opportunity to enhance MPA effectiveness

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Coastal areas conservation strategies often left deeper habitats, such as mesophotic ones, unprotected and exposed to anthropogenic activities. In this context, an approach for including the mesophotic zone inside protection plans is proposed, considering 27 Italian Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) as a model. MPAs were classified considering their bathymetries, exposure to marine heat waves (MHWs), mass mortality events (MMEs) and, using a local ecological knowledge (LEK) approach, the estimated resilience of certain sessile species after MMEs. Only 8 MPAs contained considerable mesophotic areas, with stronger MHWs mainly occurring in shallower MPAs, and MMEs mostly affecting coralligenous assemblages. Even with only a 10% response rate, the LEK approach provided useful information on the resilience of certain species, allowing us to suggest that the presence of nearby mesophotic areas can help shallower habitats facing climate change, thus making the "deep refugia" hypothesis, usually related to tropical habitats, applicable also for the Mediterranean Sea.

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Conservation of Natural Resources, Climate Change, Twilight zone, Mitigation strategies, Biodiversity, Marine spatial planning, Climate refugia, Italy, 30x30 objectives, Mediterranean Sea, Animals, Conserve and sustainably use the oceans, seas and marine resources for sustainable development, Adaptive management, Ecosystem, Development goals, Environmental Monitoring

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