A wide megafauna gap undermines China’s expanding coastal ecosystem conservation-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

A wide megafauna gap undermines China’s expanding coastal ecosystem conservation

Published:2023-08-11 Issue:32 Volume:9 Page:
ISSN:2375-2548
Container-title:Science Advances
language:en
Short-container-title:Sci. Adv.

Author:

Li Xincheng¹^ORCID,Wang Hanchen¹^ORCID,McCauley Douglas J.²^ORCID,Altieri Andrew H.³^ORCID,Silliman Brian R.⁴^ORCID,Lefcheck Jonathan S.⁵⁶^ORCID,Wu Jihua⁷^ORCID,Li Bo⁸^ORCID,He Qiang¹^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. Coastal Ecology Lab, MOE Key Laboratory of Biodiversity Science and Ecological Engineering, National Observations and Research Station for Wetland Ecosystems of the Yangtze Estuary (Shanghai), School of Life Sciences, Fudan University, 2005 Songhu Road, Shanghai 200438, China.

2. Marine Science Institute, University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA 93101, USA.

3. Department of Environmental Engineering Sciences, University of Florida, Gainesville, FL 32611, USA.

4. Nicholas School of the Environment, Duke University, 135 Duke Marine Lab Road, Beaufort, NC 28516, USA.

5. Tennenbaum Marine Observatories Network and MarineGEO Program, Smithsonian Environmental Research Center, Edgewater, MD 21037, USA.

6. University of Maryland Center for Environmental Science, Cambridge, MD 21613, USA.

7. State Key Laboratory of Grassland Agro-ecosystems and College of Ecology, Lanzhou University, Lanzhou 730000, China.

8. Institute of Biodiversity, School of Ecology and Environmental Science, Yunnan University, Kunming 650504, Yunnan, China.

Abstract

To fulfill sustainable development goals, many countries are expanding efforts to conserve ecologically and societally critical coastal ecosystems. Although megafauna profoundly affect the functioning of ecosystems, they are neglected as a key component in the conservation scheme for coastal ecosystems in many geographic contexts. We reveal a rich diversity of extant megafauna associated with all major types of coastal ecosystems in China, including 218 species of mammals, birds, reptiles, cephalopods, and fish across terrestrial and marine environments. However, 44% of these species are globally threatened, and 78% have not yet been assessed in China for extinction risk. More worrisome, 73% of these megafauna have not been designated as nationally protected species, and <10% of their most important habitats are protected. Filling this wide “megafauna gap” in China and globally would be a leading step as humanity strives to thrive with coastal ecosystems.

Publisher

American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Subject

Multidisciplinary

Link

https://www.science.org/doi/pdf/10.1126/sciadv.adg3800

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