Leveraging the Red List of Ecosystems for action on coral reefs through the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework
Abstract Countries have committed to conserving and restoring ecosystems after signing the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) will serve as a headline indicator to track countries' progress toward achieving this goal. Using Kenyan coral r...
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| author | Mishal Gudka David Obura Eric Treml Melita Samoilys Swaleh A. Aboud Kennedy Edeye Osuka James Mbugua Jelvas Mwaura Juliet Karisa Ewout Geerten Knoester Peter Musila Mohamed Omar Emily Nicholson |
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| description | Abstract Countries have committed to conserving and restoring ecosystems after signing the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) will serve as a headline indicator to track countries' progress toward achieving this goal. Using Kenyan coral reefs, we demonstrate how nations implementing the GBF can use standardized estimates of ecosystem degradation from RLE assessments to support site‐specific management decisions. We undertook a reef‐by‐reef analysis to evaluate the relative decline of four key ecosystem components over the past 50 years: hard corals, macroalgae, parrotfish, and groupers. Using the two benthic indicators, we also calculated standardized estimates of state to identify reef sites which maintain a better condition through time relative to adjacent sites. Kenya's coral reefs have degraded across all four ecosystem components. At more than half the monitored sites parrotfish and grouper abundance declined by more than 50%, while coral cover and macroalgae‐coral ratio declined by at least 30%. This resulted in an Endangered threat status for coral reefs in Kenya (under criterion D of the RLE). The results can guide management actions related to 9 of the 23 GBF targets. For example, we identified several sites with relatively healthy benthic and fish communities as candidate areas for protection measures under Target 3. The RLE has a key role to play in monitoring and meeting the goals and targets of the GBF, and our work demonstrates how using the wealth of data within these assessments can inform local‐scale ecosystem management and amplify the GBF's impact. |
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| spelling | doaj-art-7fbcd3f93ba641a68a14a73925e8d9732025-08-20T02:34:20ZengWileyConservation Science and Practice2578-48542024-12-01612n/an/a10.1111/csp2.13255Leveraging the Red List of Ecosystems for action on coral reefs through the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity FrameworkMishal Gudka0David Obura1Eric Treml2Melita Samoilys3Swaleh A. Aboud4Kennedy Edeye Osuka5James Mbugua6Jelvas Mwaura7Juliet Karisa8Ewout Geerten Knoester9Peter Musila10Mohamed Omar11Emily Nicholson12University of Melbourne Parkville Victoria AustraliaCORDIO East Africa Mombasa KenyaAustralian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) and UWA Oceans Institute, The University of Western Australia Crawley Western Australia AustraliaCORDIO East Africa Mombasa KenyaCORDIO East Africa Mombasa KenyaCORDIO East Africa Mombasa KenyaCORDIO East Africa Mombasa KenyaKenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Mombasa KenyaKenya Marine and Fisheries Research Institute Mombasa KenyaMarine Animal Ecology, Wageningen University & Research Wageningen The NetherlandsA Rocha Kenya Watamu KenyaWildlife Research and Training Institute Naivasha KenyaUniversity of Melbourne Parkville Victoria AustraliaAbstract Countries have committed to conserving and restoring ecosystems after signing the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework (GBF). The IUCN Red List of Ecosystems (RLE) will serve as a headline indicator to track countries' progress toward achieving this goal. Using Kenyan coral reefs, we demonstrate how nations implementing the GBF can use standardized estimates of ecosystem degradation from RLE assessments to support site‐specific management decisions. We undertook a reef‐by‐reef analysis to evaluate the relative decline of four key ecosystem components over the past 50 years: hard corals, macroalgae, parrotfish, and groupers. Using the two benthic indicators, we also calculated standardized estimates of state to identify reef sites which maintain a better condition through time relative to adjacent sites. Kenya's coral reefs have degraded across all four ecosystem components. At more than half the monitored sites parrotfish and grouper abundance declined by more than 50%, while coral cover and macroalgae‐coral ratio declined by at least 30%. This resulted in an Endangered threat status for coral reefs in Kenya (under criterion D of the RLE). The results can guide management actions related to 9 of the 23 GBF targets. For example, we identified several sites with relatively healthy benthic and fish communities as candidate areas for protection measures under Target 3. The RLE has a key role to play in monitoring and meeting the goals and targets of the GBF, and our work demonstrates how using the wealth of data within these assessments can inform local‐scale ecosystem management and amplify the GBF's impact.https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13255biodiversitydecision supportecological indicatorsecosystem assessmentecosystem managementglobal policy |
| spellingShingle | Mishal Gudka David Obura Eric Treml Melita Samoilys Swaleh A. Aboud Kennedy Edeye Osuka James Mbugua Jelvas Mwaura Juliet Karisa Ewout Geerten Knoester Peter Musila Mohamed Omar Emily Nicholson Leveraging the Red List of Ecosystems for action on coral reefs through the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework Conservation Science and Practice biodiversity decision support ecological indicators ecosystem assessment ecosystem management global policy |
| title | Leveraging the Red List of Ecosystems for action on coral reefs through the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework |
| title_full | Leveraging the Red List of Ecosystems for action on coral reefs through the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework |
| title_fullStr | Leveraging the Red List of Ecosystems for action on coral reefs through the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework |
| title_full_unstemmed | Leveraging the Red List of Ecosystems for action on coral reefs through the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework |
| title_short | Leveraging the Red List of Ecosystems for action on coral reefs through the Kunming‐Montreal Global Biodiversity Framework |
| title_sort | leveraging the red list of ecosystems for action on coral reefs through the kunming montreal global biodiversity framework |
| topic | biodiversity decision support ecological indicators ecosystem assessment ecosystem management global policy |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.13255 |
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