Belmont Forum Collaborative Research: Managing Ocean Front Ecosystems for Climate Change

贝尔蒙特论坛合作研究：管理海滨生态系统应对气候变化

• 批准号: 2029710
• 负责人: Lee Hannah
• 金额: $ 40万
• 依托单位: Conservation International
• 依托单位国家: 美国
• 项目类别: Continuing Grant
• 财政年份: 2021
• 资助国家: 美国
• 起止时间: 2021-04-01 至 2025-03-31
• 项目状态: 未结题
• 来源: https://www.nsf.gov/awardsearch/showAward?AWD_ID=2029710&HistoricalAwards=false
• 关键词: Belmont; Forum; Collaborative; Research; Managing

This award provides support to U.S. researchers participating in a project competitively selected by a 55-country initiative on global change research through the Belmont Forum. The Belmont Forum is a consortium of research funding organizations focused on support for transdisciplinary approaches to global environmental change challenges and opportunities. It aims to accelerate delivery of the international research most urgently needed to remove critical barriers to sustainability by aligning and mobilizing international resources. Each partner country provides funding for their researchers within a consortium to alleviate the need for funds to cross international borders. This approach facilitates effective leveraging of national resources to support excellent research on topics of global relevance best tackled through a multinational approach, recognizing that global challenges need global solutions.The project seeks to establish the relation between the fish resources and ocean fronts – areas where two distinct water masses meet in the oceans - and utilize that knowledge to understand how the fronts and the fishery related to them will change under different scenarios of changing climate. The project will focus on the Mozambique Channel where ocean front ecosystems are continually being formed and reformed. This area plays an important role in the well-being and livelihoods of many people in the area who depend on these fisheries and ocean ecosystem. Exploitation of the fisheries at these fronts poses a threat to the fisheries resources which tend to concentrate in slowly sinking waters of the frontal zone thus making them vulnerable to over-exploitation. To maintain sustainable social and natural ecosystems, it is critical to understand how these frontal ecosystems and their marine fauna and flora will be affected by changing climate. This project will utilize existing satellite data from the Mozambique Channel to develop models that advance understanding of ocean fronts, and illuminate temporal and spatial dynamics of marine life using front ecosystems, including species important to commercial fisheries and to conservation. The results will improve management of tropical fisheries and improve conservation of large marine animals including dolphin, whales, manta rays, sharks and whale sharks. These results will directly benefit conservation and fisheries in the Mozambique channel and will inform improved management in similar systems throughout the tropics.This award reflects NSF's statutory mission and has been deemed worthy of support through evaluation using the Foundation's intellectual merit and broader impacts review criteria.

该奖项为参与由 55 个国家的全球变化研究倡议通过贝尔蒙特论坛竞争性选出的项目的美国研究人员提供支持。贝尔蒙特论坛是一个由研究资助组织组成的联盟，致力于支持跨学科方法应对全球环境变化挑战和研究。它旨在通过协调和调动国际资源，加速提供最迫切需要的国际研究，以消除可持续发展的关键障碍。该方法有助于有效利用国家资源，支持对全球相关主题的优秀研究，最好通过多国方法来解决，认识到全球挑战需要全球解决方案。该项目旨在建立鱼类资源和海洋前沿之间的关系——两个不同的区域水团在海洋中相遇，并利用这些知识来了解在不同的气候变化情况下，前沿和与之相关的渔业将如何变化。该项目将重点关注莫桑比克海峡，那里的前沿生态系统正在不断形成和改造。这该地区对于依赖这些渔业和海洋生态系统的许多人的福祉和生计发挥着重要作用。这些地区的渔业资源往往集中在缓慢下沉的水域，对渔业资源构成威胁。为了维持可持续的社会和自然生态系统，了解这些锋面生态系统及其海洋动植物群将如何受到气候变化的影响至关重要。利用来自莫桑比克海峡的现有卫星数据开发模型，促进对海洋锋面的了解，并利用锋面生态系统阐明海洋生物的时空动态，包括对商业渔业和保护重要的物种。结果将改善热带渔业的管理并改善。包括海豚、鲸鱼、蝠鲼、鲨鱼和鲸鲨在内的大型海洋动物的保护将直接有利于莫桑比克海峡的保护和渔业，并将为整个热带地区类似系统的管理改进提供参考。该奖项反映了这一点。通过使用基金会的智力价值和更广泛的影响审查标准进行评估，NSF 的法定使命被认为值得支持。

项目成果

Towards climate-smart, three-dimensional protected areas for biodiversity conservation in the high seas

• DOI: 10.1038/s41558-022-01323-7
• 发表时间: 2022-04-04
• 期刊: NATURE CLIMATE CHANGE
• 影响因子: 30.7
• 作者: Brito-Morales, Isaac;Schoeman, David S.;Richardson, Anthony J.
• 通讯作者: Richardson, Anthony J.

Spatial and seasonal variability of horizontal temperature fronts in the Mozambique Channel for both epipelagic and mesopelagic realms

• DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2022.1045136
• 发表时间: 2023-01
• 作者: F. Sudre;B. Dewitte;C. Mazoyer;V. Garçon;J. Sudre;P. Penven;V. Rossi