The world's oceans are subject to the influence of climate change at all latitudes and depths. There is a growing body of literature on the responses of species to climate change, which has a strong deterministic component indicating that responses can be predicted. At the same time, advances in oceanographic data acquisition and modeling have facilitated the identification of potential climate change refugia. The Convention on Biological Diversity's “Voluntary Specific Workplan on Biodiversity in Cold‐Water Areas within the Jurisdictional Scope of the Convention” explicitly calls for the identification and protection of refugia in cold‐water areas. We propose adding “Climate Change Refugium” as an integral consideration for identification of Ecologically or Biologically Significant Marine Areas (EBSAs). We provide a description of this as a potential eighth criterion. We then briefly discuss the pros and cons of introducing this eighth criterion, or an alternative strategy to develop guidelines that explicitly link refugia to the rationale of existing EBSA criteria, in the hope that this opinion piece will launch further discussion on this notion.

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是否应将气候变化避难所的潜力纳入描述EBSA的标准的主流？

世界海洋在所有纬度和深度都受到气候变化的影响。关于物种对气候变化的响应的文献越来越多，其中具有很强的确定性成分，表明可以预测响应。同时，海洋学数据采集和建模方面的进展促进了对潜在的气候变化避难所的识别。《生物多样性公约》的“在公约管辖范围内的冷水地区生物多样性自愿性具体工作计划”明确呼吁在冷水地区确定和保护避难所。我们建议添加“气候变化庇护所”作为识别具有生态或生物意义的重要海洋区域（EBSA）的整体考虑。我们将其描述为潜在的第八个标准。然后，我们简要地讨论引入第八种标准的利弊，或者一种替代策略来制定明确将避难所与现有EBSA标准的原理联系起来的准则，以期希望这一观点能够引发对该概念的进一步讨论。