Mapping the Socio-Economic and Ecological Resilience of Japanese Coral Reefscapes across a Decade

Shallow coral reefs threatened by climate change must be spatio-temporally analyzed in terms of their protection of coastal human populations. This study combines Japanese spatio-temporal gradients of population/asset and coral buffering exposure to stress-inducing and stress-mitigating factors so t...

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Vydáno v:	ISPRS international journal of geo-information Ročník 4; číslo 2; s. 900 - 927
Hlavní autoři:	Collin, Antoine, Nadaoka, Kazuo, Bernardo, Lawrence
Médium:	Journal Article
Jazyk:	angličtina
Vydáno:	Basel MDPI AG 01.06.2015 MDPI
Témata:	Acoustics Archipelagoes assets Biodiversity and Ecology Bioinformatics Buffers Climate change coastal mapping Coastal zone management Computer Science Coral reefs Corals Ecological adaptation ecological resilience Ecology, environment Economics Ecosystems Electromagnetism Engineering Sciences Environment and Society Environmental Engineering Environmental factors Environmental protection Environmental risk Environmental Sciences fish Floods fuzzy logic Geography Global Changes high resolution human population Human populations Humanities and Social Sciences Image Processing Islands Lagoons latitude Life Sciences Machine Learning Methodology Modeling and Simulation Neural and Evolutionary Computing Optics Photonic Populations prediction Resilience Signal and Image Processing socio-economic and ecological system Socioeconomics spatio-temporal Statistics uncertainty coastal mapping socio-economic and ecological system resilience coral reefs high resolution spatio-temporal
ISSN:	2220-9964, 2220-9964
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Shrnutí:	Shallow coral reefs threatened by climate change must be spatio-temporally analyzed in terms of their protection of coastal human populations. This study combines Japanese spatio-temporal gradients of population/asset and coral buffering exposure to stress-inducing and stress-mitigating factors so that the socio-economic and ecological (SEE) resilience tied to coral reefscapes can be regionally mapped (1200 km) at a fine resolution (1 arcsec) over a decade (11 years). Fuzzy logic was employed to associated environmental factors based on the related population/asset/coral buffering responses, as found in the literature. Once the factors were weighted according to their resilience contributions, temporally static patterns were evident: (1) a negative correlation occurs between coral buffering resilience and latitude; (2) the least resilient islands are low-lying, deprived of wide reef barriers, and located on the eastern and southern boundaries of the Nansei archipelago; (3) the southwestern-most, middle and northeastern-most islands have the same SEE resilience; and (4) Sekisei Lagoon islands have a very high coral buffering resilience. To overcome uncertainty, future studies should focus on the socio-ecological adaptive capacity, fine-scale ecological processes (such as coral and fish functional groups) and the prediction of the flood risks in the coming decades.
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ISSN:	2220-9964 2220-9964
DOI:	10.3390/ijgi4020900