Advancing marine conservation in European and contiguous seas with the MarCons Action [PDF]
Research Ideas and Outcomes, 2017 Cumulative human impacts have led to the degradation of marine ecosystems and the decline of biodiversity in the European and contiguous seas. Effective conservation measures are urgently needed to reverse these trends.
Stelios Katsanevakis +34 more
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Advancing Social Equity in and Through Marine Conservation
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2021 Substantial efforts and investments are being made to increase the scale and improve the effectiveness of marine conservation globally. Though it is mandated by international law and central to conservation policy, less attention has been given to how to
Nathan J. Bennett +33 more
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Large‐scale conservation planning in a multinational marine environment: cost matters [PDF]
Ecological Applications, 2014 Explicitly including cost in marine conservation planning is essential for achieving feasible and efficient conservation outcomes. Yet, spatial priorities for marine conservation are still often based solely on biodiversity hotspots, species richness ...
Tessa K Mazor +2 more
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Global Conservation Priorities for Marine Turtles [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2011 Where conservation resources are limited and conservation targets are diverse, robust yet flexible priority-setting frameworks are vital. Priority-setting is especially important for geographically widespread species with distinct populations subject to multiple threats that operate on different spatial and temporal scales.
Bryan P Wallace +2 more
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Identifying global marine climate refugia through a conservative approach to ocean biodiversity preservation [PDF]
Nature CommunicationsGlobal changes threaten marine species, making marine climate refugia essential for biodiversity conservation and climate change mitigation. Our analysis maps sensitive and stability zones across the global ocean.
Hongfei Zhuang +4 more
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Citizen science and marine conservation: a global review [PDF]
Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences, 2020 Rachel Kelly, Aysha Fleming, Gretta Pecl
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Comparison of technical measures in the Aegean Sea to support harmonization of fisheries management policies [PDF]
Acta Ichthyologica et Piscatoria, 2022 The Aegean Sea features an important archipelago in the Eastern Mediterranean, consisting of 60 inhabited islands, more than 1400 uninhabited islands, about 60–70 commercial marine taxa, along many vulnerable species. Fisheries are mainly coastal and are
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Why human rights matter for marine conservation
Frontiers in Marine Science, 2023 Human rights matter for marine conservation because people and nature are inextricably linked. A thriving planet cannot be one that contains widespread human suffering or stifles human potential; and a thriving humanity cannot exist on a dying planet ...
Patrick Smallhorn-West +16 more
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Forty years of monitoring increasing sea turtle relative abundance in the Gulf of Mexico
Scientific Reports, 2023 Longitudinal data sets for population abundance are essential for studies of imperiled organisms with long life spans or migratory movements, such as marine turtles.
Jacob Andrew Lasala +5 more
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Disentangling the complex roles of markets on coral reefs in northwest Madagascar
Ecology and Society, 2020 Rapid degradation of the world's coral reefs jeopardizes their ecological functioning and ultimately imperils the well-being of the millions of people with reef-dependent livelihoods.
Eva Maire +10 more
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