Changing role of coral reef marine reserves in a warming climate [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2020 It is unclear whether rapid climate change will alter the effectiveness of marine reserves. Here Graham et al. use a 20-year time-series from the Seychelles to show that marine reserves may not prevent climate-driven shifts in community composition, and ...
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Do marine reserves increase prey for California sea lions and Pacific harbor seals? [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2019 Community marine reserves are geographical areas closed to fishing activities, implemented and enforced by the same fishermen that fish around them. Their main objective is to recover commercial stocks of fish and invertebrates.
Alejandro Arias-Del-Razo +6 more
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A spatiotemporal comparison of length-at-age in the coral reef fish Acanthurus nigrofuscus between marine reserves and fished reefs. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2020 Quantitative assessments of the capacity of marine reserves to restore historical fish body-size distributions require extensive repeated sampling to map the phenotypic responses of target populations to protection.
Mathias T Cramer +4 more
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Short-term effects of community-based marine reserves on green abalone, as revealed by population studies [PDF]
Scientific ReportsMarine reserves (MRs) are implemented worldwide to protect, restore, and manage marine ecosystems and species. However, it is important to document the positive effects those marine reserves have on slow-growth, temperate invertebrates such as abalone ...
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Global mismatch between fishing dependency and larval supply from marine reserves [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2017 The effectiveness of marine reserves relies on whether they supply substantial recruitment outside their boundaries. Here, Andrello and colleagues use models of larval fish dispersal to show that countries most dependent on coastal fisheries receive the ...
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Assessing the effect of marine reserves on household food security in Kenyan coral reef fishing communities. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2014 Measuring the success or failure of natural resource management is a key challenge to evaluate the impact of conservation for ecological, economic and social outcomes.
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Marine reserves lag behind wilderness in the conservation of key functional roles [PDF]
Nature Communications, 2016 The establishment of marine reserves in areas previously exploited by humans is recognised as an effective conservation tool. Through modelling effects of isolation from human influence, D'agata et al.
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Spillover Effects of a Community-Managed Marine Reserve [PDF]
PLOS ONE, 2015 The value of no-take marine reserves as fisheries-management tools is controversial, particularly in high-poverty areas where human populations depend heavily on fish as a source of protein. Spillover, the net export of adult fish, is one mechanism by which no-take marine reserves may have a positive influence on adjacent fisheries.
da Silva, Isabel Marques +4 more
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MARINE RESERVES ARE NECESSARY BUT NOT SUFFICIENT FOR MARINE CONSERVATION [PDF]
Ecological Applications, 1998 The intensity of human pressure on marine systems has led to a push for stronger marine conservation efforts. Recently, marine reserves have become one highly advocated form of marine conservation, and the number of newly designated reserves has increased dramatically.
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The role of pre-existing disturbances in the effect of marine reserves on coastal ecosystems: a modelling approach. [PDF]
PLoS ONE, 2013 We have used an end-to-end ecosystem model to explore responses over 30 years to coastal no-take reserves covering up to 6% of the fifty thousand square kilometres of continental shelf and slope off the coast of New South Wales (Australia).
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