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Restoration actions in marine ecosystems: a global analysis

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1 Department of Biological and Environmental Science and Technology, University of Salento - CoNISMa, Lecce, Italy
2 Dipartimento di Scienze e Tecnnologie Biologiche ed Ambientali, Università del Salento - CoNISMA, Lecce, Italy
3 UN Environment World Conservation Monitoring Centre, Cambridge, United Kingdom
4 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Heraklion, Greece
5 IMAR-UAz, Instituto do Mar Centro da Universidade dos Açores, Azores, Portugal
6 Environmental and Marine Biology Faculty of Science and Engineering, Åbo Akademi University, Turku/Åbo, Finland
7 University of Barcelona, Department of Evolutionary Biology, Ecology and Environmental Sciences, Barcelona, Spain
8 Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell’Ambiente, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
9 Institute of Aquatic Ecology Department of Environmental Sciences, University of Girona, Girona, Spain
10 Helmholtz Institute for Functional Marine Biodiversity at the University Oldenburg, Alfred-Wegener-Institut, Helmholtz Center for Polar and Marine Research, Oldenburg, Germany
11 Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell’Ambiente, Universita Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
12 CSIC, Institut Ciències del Mar, Barcelona, Spain
13 Department of Biology, Faculty of Science, University of Zagreb, Zagreb, Croatia
14 Estonian Marine Institute, University of Tartu, Tartu, Estonia
15 Dipartimento di Scienze della Vita e dell’Ambiente, Università di Cagliari, Cagliari, Italy
16 Hellenic Centre for Marine Research, Eraklion, Greece
17 Stazione Zoologica di Napoli, Università Politecnica delle Marche, Ancona, Italy
DOI
10.7287/peerj.preprints.26799v1
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Accepted
Subject Areas
Biodiversity, Conservation Biology, Ecology, Marine Biology, Environmental Impacts
Keywords
Active restoration, Marine habitats, Systematic review, Habitat loss, Rehabilitation, Coastal habitats, MERCES
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© 2018 Fraschetti et al.
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Fraschetti S, Guarnieri G, Papa L, McOwen C, Papadopoulou N, Bilan M, Boström C, Capdevila P, Carugati L, Cebrian E, Dailianis T, De Leo F, Fiorentino D, Gagnon K, Gambi C, Garrabou J, Gerovasileiou V, Hereu B, Kipson S, Kotta J, Ledoux J, Linares C, Martin J, Medrano A, Montero-Serra I, Morato T, Pusceddu A, Sevastou K, Smith C, Verdura J, Danovaro R. 2018. Restoration actions in marine ecosystems: a global analysis. PeerJ Preprints 6:e26799v1

Abstract

A review of 573 studies on active restoration actions in the marine environment, published in the last 25 years, was carried out at global scale. We assessed how, where, at which spatial and temporal scales and under which socio-ecological settings restoration studies have been carried out, from very shallow to deep sea habitats. Results show that restoration efforts across habitats are increasing, especially in seagrasses and coral reefs, but never approached at ecosystem level. Targets, methods, response variables and standards are still very heterogeneous. Of the factors considered in the review, habitat, human impact intensity, realm and methods of restoration were found to be good determinant of restoration success. Short project duration (one-two years), small restoration areas (< 1 ha), lack of controls and knowledge of baselines are still a limit for deriving generalities. Finally, restorations rarely consider future challenges linked to global change this impairing long-term success stories. Restoration science needs more robust approaches leading to the development of best practices (e.g. protocols, monitoring of the effects, reasons for failure) to be applied at spatial and temporal scales so as to answer to present and future disturbance regimes.

Author Comment

“This is an abstract which has been accepted for the WCMB”

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Competing Interests

The authors declare that they have no competing interests.

Author Contributions

Simonetta Fraschetti conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, contributed reagents/materials/analysis tools, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Giuseppe Guarnieri conceived and designed the experiments, performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper, approved the final draft.

Loredana Papa performed the experiments.

Chris McOwen performed the experiments, analyzed the data, prepared figures and/or tables, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper.

Nadia Papadopoulou performed the experiments, authored or reviewed drafts of the paper.

Meri Bilan performed the experiments.

Christoffer Boström performed the experiments.

Pol Capdevila performed the experiments.

Laura Carugati performed the experiments.

Emma Cebrian performed the experiments.

Thanos Dailianis performed the experiments.

Francesco De Leo performed the experiments, prepared figures and/or tables.

Dario Fiorentino performed the experiments.

Karine Gagnon performed the experiments.

Cristina Gambi performed the experiments.

Joaquim Garrabou performed the experiments.

Vasilis Gerovasileiou performed the experiments.

Bernat Hereu performed the experiments.

Silvija Kipson performed the experiments.

Jonne Kotta performed the experiments.

Jean-Baptiste Ledoux performed the experiments.

Cristina Linares performed the experiments.

Juliette Martin performed the experiments.

Alba Medrano performed the experiments.

Ignasi Montero-Serra performed the experiments.

Telmo Morato performed the experiments.

Antonio Pusceddu performed the experiments.

Katerina Sevastou performed the experiments.

Chris Smith performed the experiments.

Jana Verdura performed the experiments.

Roberto Danovaro performed the experiments.

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The research in this article did not generate any data or code (please explain). We are submitting an abstract

Funding

This work was supported by the project MERCES of the European Union’s Horizon 2020 research (Grant agreement No. 689518, http://www.merces-project.eu) The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.

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