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Editorial: Solving Complex Ocean Challenges Through Interdisciplinary Research: Advances from Early Career Marine Scientists
Summary
This editorial introduces a research collection addressing complex ocean and coastal challenges through interdisciplinary approaches developed by early career marine scientists, emphasizing that accelerating anthropogenic impacts on marine biodiversity and ecosystem function require solutions that cross traditional disciplinary boundaries. The collection highlights the growing recognition that effective ocean conservation requires integration of natural and social sciences.
Anthropogenic impacts on the world’s coasts and oceans are accelerating at an unprecedented rate, threatening marine biodiversity and ecosystem functioning, and with it the sustainability of the goods and services marine systems provide, with downstream impacts on societal well-being and livelihoods. Embedded within complex social-ecological systems, coasts and oceans are subject to uncertain, unpredictable, and interconnected challenges, to which solutions cannot be developed through single disciplinary approaches. To this end, there has been growing recognition of the need for interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary marine science to push towards sustainable, productive, and healthy coasts and oceans at a time of significant global change (Kelly et al., 2019).
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