Widespread local chronic stressors in Caribbean coastal habitats

Coastal ecosystems and the livelihoods they support are threatened by stressors acting at global and local scales. Here we used the data produced by the Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity program (CARICOMP), the longest, largest monitoring program in the wider Caribbean, to evidence local-scale (...

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Vydáno v:PloS one Ročník 12; číslo 12; s. e0188564
Hlavní autoři: Chollett, Iliana, Collin, Rachel, Bastidas, Carolina, Cróquer, Aldo, Gayle, Peter M. H., Jordán-Dahlgren, Eric, Koltes, Karen, Oxenford, Hazel, Rodriguez-Ramirez, Alberto, Weil, Ernesto, Alemu, Jahson, Bone, David, Buchan, Kenneth C., Creary Ford, Marcia, Escalante-Mancera, Edgar, Garzón-Ferreira, Jaime, Guzmán, Hector M., Kjerfve, Björn, Klein, Eduardo, McCoy, Croy, Potts, Arthur C., Ruíz-Rentería, Francisco, Smith, Struan R., Tschirky, John, Cortés, Jorge
Médium: Journal Article
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: United States Public Library of Science 20.12.2017
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Témata:
Analysis
Anthropogenic factors
Biology and Life Sciences
Caribbean Region
Chlorophyll
Climate change
Coastal ecology
Coastal ecosystems
Coastal management
Coastal zone management
Coasts
Conservation
Conservation of Natural Resources
Coral reefs
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Earth Sciences
Ecology and Environmental Sciences
Ecosystem
Ecosystem management
Ecosystems
Environmental factors
Environmental impact
Environmental monitoring
Environmental Monitoring - methods
Environmental stress
Global warming
Human influences
Humans
Laboratories
Natural variability
Oceans
People and places
Remote sensing
Salinity
Satellites
Seawater
Stations
Strategic management
Stress, Physiological
Temperature
Temperature data
Temperature effects
Trends
Water quality
Water temperature
Caribbean Islands
ISSN:1932-6203, 1932-6203
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Shrnutí:Coastal ecosystems and the livelihoods they support are threatened by stressors acting at global and local scales. Here we used the data produced by the Caribbean Coastal Marine Productivity program (CARICOMP), the longest, largest monitoring program in the wider Caribbean, to evidence local-scale (decreases in water quality) and global-scale (increases in temperature) stressors across the basin. Trend analyses showed that visibility decreased at 42% of the stations, indicating that local-scale chronic stressors are widespread. On the other hand, only 18% of the stations showed increases in water temperature that would be expected from global warming, partially reflecting the limits in detecting trends due to inherent natural variability of temperature data. Decreases in visibility were associated with increased human density. However, this link can be decoupled by environmental factors, with conditions that increase the flush of water, dampening the effects of human influence. Besides documenting environmental stressors throughout the basin, our results can be used to inform future monitoring programs, if the desire is to identify stations that provide early warning signals of anthropogenic impacts. All CARICOMP environmental data are now available, providing an invaluable baseline that can be used to strengthen research, conservation, and management of coastal ecosystems in the Caribbean basin.
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Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.
ISSN:1932-6203
1932-6203
DOI:10.1371/journal.pone.0188564