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Past and Future Grand Challenges in Marine Ecosystem Ecology
Frontiers in Marine Science2020
77 citations
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Ángel Borja,
Alice Newton,
Michelle Devlin,
Christos Arvanitidis,
Ángel Borja,
Jesper H. Andersen,
Jesper H. Andersen,
Stelios Katsanevakis,
Chiara Piroddi,
Jesper H. Andersen,
Ángel Borja,
Ángel Borja,
Ángel Borja,
Stelios Katsanevakis,
Jesper H. Andersen,
Ángel Borja,
Lene Buhl‐Mortensen,
Lene Buhl‐Mortensen,
Xavier Pochon,
Christian Grenz,
Alice Newton,
Christos Arvanitidis,
Ángel Borja,
Jesper H. Andersen,
Alberto Basset,
Ana M. Queirós,
Tilmann Harder,
Elva Escobar‐Briones,
Michael St. John,
Ángel Borja,
Ángel Borja,
Heliana Teixeira,
Xavier Pochon,
Alice Newton,
Lene Buhl‐Mortensen,
Lene Buhl‐Mortensen,
Ana M. Queirós,
Ana M. Queirós,
Xosé Anxelu G. Morán,
Jesper H. Andersen,
Alice Newton,
Christos Arvanitidis,
Michael St. John,
Christos Arvanitidis,
Katherine A. Dafforn,
Elva Escobar‐Briones,
Michael St. John,
Susana Carvalho,
Christian Grenz,
Michael St. John,
Susana Carvalho,
Jesper H. Andersen,
Jesper H. Andersen,
Michelle Devlin,
Susana Carvalho,
Katherine A. Dafforn,
Ana M. Queirós,
Katherine A. Dafforn,
Michelle Devlin,
Elva Escobar‐Briones,
Lene Buhl‐Mortensen,
Michelle Devlin,
Lene Buhl‐Mortensen,
Xavier Pochon,
Paul V. R. Snelgrove
Xavier Pochon,
Elva Escobar‐Briones,
Elva Escobar‐Briones,
Elva Escobar‐Briones,
Christian Grenz,
Jesper H. Andersen,
Tilmann Harder,
Paul V. R. Snelgrove
Elva Escobar‐Briones,
Stelios Katsanevakis,
Michelle Devlin,
Dongyan Liu,
Anna Meta×as,
Xosé Anxelu G. Morán,
Alice Newton,
Jesper H. Andersen,
Anna Meta×as,
Chiara Piroddi,
Xavier Pochon,
Ana M. Queirós,
Stelios Katsanevakis,
Paul V. R. Snelgrove,
Paul V. R. Snelgrove
Cosimo Solidoro,
Stelios Katsanevakis,
Michael St. John,
Heliana Teixeira,
Paul V. R. Snelgrove
Anna Meta×as,
Paul V. R. Snelgrove
Summary
This review evaluated progress on eight grand challenges in marine ecosystem ecology identified in 2014 by the Frontiers in Marine Science journal, analyzing 370 papers published since then across topics including biodiversity, climate change, and pollution. The authors identified emerging priorities for the field, including microplastic pollution and its interactions with marine food webs.
Frontiers in Marine Science launched the Marine Ecosystems Ecology (FMARS-MEE) section in 2014, with a paper that identified eight grand challenges for the discipline (Borja, 2014). Since then, this section has published a total of 370 papers, including 336 addressing aspects of those challenges. As editors of the journal, with a wide range of marine ecology expertise, we felt it was timely to evaluate research advances related to those challenges; and to update the scope of the section to reflect the grand challenges we envision for the next 10 years. This output will match with the United Nations (UN) Decade on Oceans Science for Sustainable Development (DOSSD;Claudet et al., 2020), UN Decade of Ecosystems Restoration (DER; Young and Schwartz, 2019), and the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs; Visbeck et al., 2014). First, we analyzed each published paper and assigned their topic to a maximum of two out of the eight challenges (all information available in Supplementary Table 1). We then extracted the 3–5 most cited papers within each challenge using two criteria: the total number of citations during this 6-year period, and the annual citation rate (i.e., the mean annual number of citations since publication). We then collated the topics covered by this reduced list of papers (Table 1) and summarized the outcomes for each topic.