title: The future of the oceans past: towards a global marine historical research initiative.
abstract: Historical research is playing an increasingly important role in marine sciences. Historical data are also used in policy making and marine resource management, and have helped to address the issue of shifting baselines for numerous species and ecosystems. Although many important research questions still remain unanswered, tremendous developments in conceptual and methodological approaches are expected to contribute to a comprehensive understanding of the global history of human interactions with life in the seas. Based on our experiences and knowledge from the "History of Marine Animal Populations" project, this paper identifies the emerging research topics for future historical marine research. It elaborates on concepts and tools which are expected to play a major role in answering these questions, and identifies geographical regions which deserve future attention from marine environmental historians and historical ecologists.
authors.affiliation: Department of Social Sciences, Leibniz Center for Tropical Marine Ecology, Bremen, Germany; Asia Research Center, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Kathleen
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Schwerdtner Máñez
authors.affiliation: Trinity Long Room Hub Arts and Humanities Research Institute, Trinity College Dublin, Dublin, Ireland.
authors.forename: Poul
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Holm
authors.affiliation: World Wildlife Fund (WWF) -Canada, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.
authors.forename: Louise
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Blight
authors.affiliation: Renewable Marine Resources Department, Institute of Marine Science, Barcelona, Spain; Laboratoire Écosystèmes Marins Exploités, Sète Cedex, France.
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Coll
authors.affiliation: Marine Ecology, National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research, Kilbirnie, Wellington, New Zealand.
authors.forename: Alison
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: MacDiarmid
authors.affiliation: Estonian Marine Institute, University Tartu, Tartu, Estonia.
authors.forename: Henn
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Ojaveer
authors.affiliation: Faculty of Social Sciences, Aalborg University, Aalborg Ø, Denmark.
authors.forename: Bo
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Poulsen
authors.affiliation: Murdoch Business School, Murdoch University, Murdoch, Western Australia, Australia.
authors.forename: Malcolm
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Tull
mesh_terms: D000818:Animals; D059001:Aquatic Organisms / Q000502:physiology; D053476:Extinction, Biological; D049673:History, 20th Century; D049674:History, 21st Century; D006801:Humans; D008386:Marine Biology / Q000266:history / Q000379:methods; D009792:Oceans and Seas; D011050:Policy Making