Journal
MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN
Volume 124, Issue 2, Pages 573-586Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2017.01.068
Keywords
Climate change; Long-term monitoring; Overfishing; Pollution; Torrey Canyon oil spill; Tributyltin (TBT)
Funding
- International Tanker Owners Pollution Federation Ltd. (ITOPF)
- NERC
- Defra
- GWR fellowship
- MarClim programme
- Natural England
- Oceans 2025 programme
- Natural Resources Wales
- NERC [NE/J024082/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/J024082/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Marine ecosystems are subject to anthropogenic change at global, regional and local scales. Global drivers interact with regional- and local-scale impacts of both a chronic and acute nature. Natural fluctuations and those driven by climate change need to be understood to diagnose local- and regional-scale impacts, and to inform assessments of recovery. Three case studies are used to illustrate the need for long-term studies: (i) separation of the influence of fishing pressure from climate change on bottom fish in the English Channel; (ii) recovery of rocky shore assemblages from the Torrey Canyon oil spill in the southwest of England; (iii) interaction of climate change and chronic Tributyltin pollution affecting recovery of rocky shore populations following the Torrey Canyon oil spill. We emphasize that baselines or reference states are better viewed as envelopes that are dependent on the time window of observation. Recommendations are made for adaptive management in a rapidly changing world. (C) 2017 Published by Elsevier Ltd.
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