eprintid: 10092705 rev_number: 14 eprint_status: archive userid: 608 dir: disk0/10/09/27/05 datestamp: 2020-03-03 15:42:15 lastmod: 2021-09-25 23:27:09 status_changed: 2020-03-03 15:42:15 type: article metadata_visibility: show creators_name: Rees, SE creators_name: Sheehan, EV creators_name: Stewart, BD creators_name: Clark, R creators_name: Appleby, T creators_name: Attrill, MJ creators_name: Jones, PJS creators_name: Johnson, D creators_name: Bradshaw, N creators_name: Pittman, S creators_name: Oates, J creators_name: Solandt, JL title: Emerging themes to support ambitious UK marine biodiversity conservation ispublished: inpress divisions: UCL divisions: B03 divisions: C03 divisions: F26 keywords: Ecosystem services, Natural capital, MPAs, Convention on Biological Diversity, Monitoring, Whole-site, Ecosystem based fisheries management, OECM, Marine spatial planning note: This article is published under a Creative Commons license (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) abstract: Healthy marine ecosystems provide a wide range of resources and services that support life on Earth and contribute to human wellbeing. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are accepted as an important tool for the restoration and maintenance of marine ecosystem structure, function, health and ecosystem integrity through the conservation of significant species, habitats, or entire ecosystems. In recent years there has been a rapid expansion in the area of ocean designated as an MPA. Despite this progress in spatial protection targets and the progressive knowledge of the essential interdependence between the human and the ocean system, marine biodiversity continues to decline, placing in jeopardy the range of ecosystem services benefits humans rely on. There is a need to address this shortcoming. Ambitious marine conservation: • Requires a shift from managing individual marine features within MPAs to whole-sites to enable repair and renewal of marine systems; • Reflects an ambition for sustainable livelihoods by fully integrating fisheries management with conservation (Ecosystem Based Fisheries Management) as the two are critically interdependent; • Establishes a world class and cost effective ecological and socio-economic monitoring and evaluation framework that includes the use of controls and sentinel sites to improve sustainability in marine management; and • Challenges policy makers and practitioners to be progressive by integrating MPAs into the wider seascape as critical functional components rather than a competing interest and move beyond MPAs as the only tool to underpin the benefits derived from marine ecosystems by identifying other effective area-based conservation measures (OECMs) to establish synergies with wider governance frameworks. date: 2020-01-01 date_type: published official_url: http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.103864 oa_status: green full_text_type: pub language: eng primo: open primo_central: open_green verified: verified_manual elements_id: 1767660 doi: 10.1016/j.marpol.2020.103864 lyricists_name: Jones, Peter lyricists_id: PJJON41 actors_name: Kalinowski, Damian actors_id: DKALI47 actors_role: owner full_text_status: public publication: Marine Policy citation: Rees, SE; Sheehan, EV; Stewart, BD; Clark, R; Appleby, T; Attrill, MJ; Jones, PJS; ... Solandt, JL; + view all <#> Rees, SE; Sheehan, EV; Stewart, BD; Clark, R; Appleby, T; Attrill, MJ; Jones, PJS; Johnson, D; Bradshaw, N; Pittman, S; Oates, J; Solandt, JL; - view fewer <#> (2020) Emerging themes to support ambitious UK marine biodiversity conservation. Marine Policy 10.1016/j.marpol.2020.103864 <https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marpol.2020.103864>. (In press). Green open access document_url: https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/10092705/1/Jones_Emerging%20themes%20to%20support%20ambitious%20UK%20marine%20biodiversity%20conservation_AOP.pdf