Shared governance increases marine protected area effectiveness. [PDF]
PLoS ONEMarine protected areas (MPAs) are widely used to conserve and manage coastal resources. Protected areas are governed by a variety of institutional arrangements, yet little is known concerning the relative performance of different governance approaches ...
Andrea Mast +7 more
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Marine soundscape and fish biophony of a Mediterranean marine protected area [PDF]
PeerJ, 2021 Background Marine soundscape is the aggregation of sound sources known as geophony, biophony, and anthrophony. The soundscape analysis, in terms of collection and analysis of acoustic signals, has been proposed as a tool to evaluate the specific features
Gabriella La Manna +7 more
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Marine algal species and their distribution in Phu Quoc marine protected area [PDF]
Data in Brief, 2019 This article presents the raw data in relation to the status of, and the distribution of, the 41 marine algal species occurring around and within the An Thoi coral reef strictly protected zone, Phu Quoc Marine Protected Area.
Huynh Van Tien, Nguyen Tan Phong
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Drivers of coral reef marine protected area performance.
PLoS ONE, 2017 Coral reefs are severely threatened and a principal strategy for their conservation is marine protected areas (MPAs). However the drivers of MPA performance are complex and there are likely to be trade-offs between different types of performance (e.g ...
Venetia Alexa Hargreaves-Allen +2 more
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Blue carbon storage in a sub-Antarctic marine protected area [PDF]
Scientific ReportsHigh-latitude ecosystems have been overlooked in carbon budgets, which traditionally focus on mangroves, salt marshes, and seagrasses. The benthic assemblages and their Nature Contributions to People in Namuncurá – Burdwood Bank I and II, two offshore ...
Lucía Bergagna +3 more
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Community Structure and Health Status of Mangrove Ecosystem in Anambas Islands Marine Tourism Park, Indonesia [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2023 Mangroves are one of the coastal ecosystems that can adapt to tidal areas with highly saline environments. This community plays a crucial role in ecological and economic functions, such as prevention of abrasion and seawater intrusion, providing habitat ...
Sinaga Ronald Raditya Kesatria +4 more
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Aboveground Biomass Estimation of Mangrove Ecosystem in the Anambas Islands Using Remote Sensing Data [PDF]
BIO Web of Conferences, 2023 The Anambas Islands is located in the Natuna Sea - the southern part of the South China Sea, encompassing vital marine ecosystems. Among these ecosystems, the mangrove stands out as crucial in the Anambas, playing an important role in providing a range ...
Laia Dominikus Yoeli Wilson +7 more
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Sea urchin harvest inside marine protected areas: an opportunity to investigate the effects of exploitation where trophic upgrading is achieved [PDF]
PeerJ, 2022 Background Marine protected areas (MPAs) usually have both positive effects of protection for the fisheries’ target species and indirect negative effects for sea urchins. Moreover, often in MPAs sea urchin human harvest is restricted, but allowed.
Giulia Ceccherelli +22 more
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Non-indigenous macroalgal species in coralligenous habitats of the Marine Protected Area Isole Ciclopi (Sicily, Italy) [PDF]
Italian Botanist, 2021 Biological invasions are considered one of the main threats for biodiversity. In the last decades, more than 60 macroalgae have been introduced in the Mediterranean Sea, causing serious problems in coastal areas.
Luca Giuseppe Costanzo +2 more
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Seagrass Meadow Distribution Mapping in the Coastal Lagoon of Buan Island, Anambas
Jurnal Kelautan Tropis, 2023 Seagrasses are vital monocotyledonous marine flowering plants that serve as essential food sources for megaherbivores, contribute significantly to organic carbon production, and offer a multitude of crucial ecosystem services.
Dominikus Yoeli Wilson Laia +6 more
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