Precautionary spatial protection to facilitate the scientific study of habitats and communities under ice shelves in the context of recent, rapid, regional climate change
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...Nevertheless, they remain susceptible to climate variability and change (Brandt and Gutt, 2011), including from ocean acidification (Orr et al....
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...All types of commercial fishing activities should be prohibited within these defined areas as bottom gear types are known to have adverse impacts (Kilpatrick et al., 2011; Shannon et al., 2010) that may affect developing benthic communities....
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...The areas will allow natural ecological processes such as iceberg scouring (e.g. Gutt, 2001), colonisation and/or community development (Gutt et al., 2013; Dayton et al., 2013), etc. to be studied in the absence of commercial fishing activity....
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...The boundaries of ice shelves and ice tongues are complex, often with numerous small-scale creeks, they also move over decadal time scales (Ferrigno et al., 2006)....
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