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- Title
Making evolutionary history count: biodiversity planning for coral reef fishes and the conservation of evolutionary processes.
- Authors
Heyden, Sophie
- Abstract
Anthropogenic activities are having devastating impacts on marine systems with numerous knock-on effects on trophic functioning, species interactions and an accelerated loss of biodiversity. Establishing conservation areas can not only protect biodiversity, but also confer resilience against changes to coral reefs and their inhabitants. Planning for protection and conservation in marine systems is complex, but usually focuses on maintaining levels of biodiversity and protecting special and unique landscape features while avoiding negative impacts to socio-economic benefits. Conversely, the integration of evolutionary processes that have shaped extant species assemblages is rarely taken into account. However, it is as important to protect processes as it is to protect patterns for maintaining the evolutionary trajectories of populations and species. This review focuses on different approaches for integrating genetic analyses, such as phylogenetic diversity, phylogeography and the delineation of management units, temporal and spatial monitoring of genetic diversity and quantification of adaptive variation for protecting evolutionary resilience, into marine spatial planning, specifically for coral reef fishes. Many of these concepts are not yet readily applied to coral reef fish studies, but this synthesis highlights their potential and the importance of including historical processes into systematic biodiversity planning for conserving not only extant, but also future, biodiversity and its evolutionary potential.
- Subjects
BIOLOGICAL evolution; BIODIVERSITY; PHYLOGEOGRAPHY; CORAL reef conservation; CORAL reef fishes
- Publication
Coral Reefs, 2017, Vol 36, Issue 1, p183
- ISSN
0722-4028
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s00338-016-1512-2