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Article: Recovery of tropical marine benthos after a trawl ban demonstrates linkage between abiotic and biotic changes

TitleRecovery of tropical marine benthos after a trawl ban demonstrates linkage between abiotic and biotic changes
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Issue Date2021
PublisherNature Research: Fully open access journals. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.nature.com/commsbio
Citation
Communications Biology, 2021, v. 4 n. 1, p. article no. 212 How to Cite?
AbstractBottom trawling, which is highly detrimental to seabed habitats, has been banned in some jurisdictions to mitigate the problems of habitat destruction and overfishing. However, most reports of ecosystem responses to trawling impacts originate from temperate latitudes, focusing on commercial species, and recovery of invertebrate macrobenthos from trawl ban has hardly ever been studied in the tropics. In Hong Kong (lat. 22.4°N), a history of intensive trawling with various types of gears has long degraded coastal ecosystems. To facilitate the recovery of fisheries resources and associated benthic ecosystems, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region implemented a territory-wide trawl ban on December 31, 2012. Comparison of surveys conducted in June 2012 (before the trawl ban) and June 2015 (2.5 years after the ban) revealed higher organic contents in sediment and lower suspended-solid loads in water column, as well as a significant increase in site-based abundance, species richness, functional diversity and among-site similarity of macrobenthos after the trawl ban. Our results suggest that the imposition of a trawl ban can be an effective measure for biodiversity conservation in tropical coastal waters.
Persistent Identifierhttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/306312
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dc.contributor.authorWang, Z-
dc.contributor.authorLeung, KMY-
dc.contributor.authorSung, YH-
dc.contributor.authorDudgeon, D-
dc.contributor.authorQiu, JW-
dc.date.accessioned2021-10-20T10:21:50Z-
dc.date.available2021-10-20T10:21:50Z-
dc.date.issued2021-
dc.identifier.citationCommunications Biology, 2021, v. 4 n. 1, p. article no. 212-
dc.identifier.issn2399-3642-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/10722/306312-
dc.description.abstractBottom trawling, which is highly detrimental to seabed habitats, has been banned in some jurisdictions to mitigate the problems of habitat destruction and overfishing. However, most reports of ecosystem responses to trawling impacts originate from temperate latitudes, focusing on commercial species, and recovery of invertebrate macrobenthos from trawl ban has hardly ever been studied in the tropics. In Hong Kong (lat. 22.4°N), a history of intensive trawling with various types of gears has long degraded coastal ecosystems. To facilitate the recovery of fisheries resources and associated benthic ecosystems, the Government of the Hong Kong Special Administrative Region implemented a territory-wide trawl ban on December 31, 2012. Comparison of surveys conducted in June 2012 (before the trawl ban) and June 2015 (2.5 years after the ban) revealed higher organic contents in sediment and lower suspended-solid loads in water column, as well as a significant increase in site-based abundance, species richness, functional diversity and among-site similarity of macrobenthos after the trawl ban. Our results suggest that the imposition of a trawl ban can be an effective measure for biodiversity conservation in tropical coastal waters.-
dc.languageeng-
dc.publisherNature Research: Fully open access journals. The Journal's web site is located at http://www.nature.com/commsbio-
dc.relation.ispartofCommunications Biology-
dc.rightsCommunications Biology. Copyright © Nature Research: Fully open access journals.-
dc.rightsThis work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International License.-
dc.titleRecovery of tropical marine benthos after a trawl ban demonstrates linkage between abiotic and biotic changes-
dc.typeArticle-
dc.identifier.emailDudgeon, D: ddudgeon@hku.hk-
dc.identifier.authorityDudgeon, D=rp00691-
dc.description.naturepublished_or_final_version-
dc.identifier.doi10.1038/s42003-021-01732-y-
dc.identifier.pmid33594207-
dc.identifier.pmcidPMC7887210-
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dc.identifier.hkuros326895-
dc.identifier.volume4-
dc.identifier.issue1-
dc.identifier.spagearticle no. 212-
dc.identifier.epagearticle no. 212-
dc.identifier.isiWOS:000620961500003-
dc.publisher.placeUnited Kingdom-

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