Resilience underpins the sustainability of both ecological and social systems. Extensive loss
of reef corals following recent mass bleaching events have challenged the notion that …

Climate change is increasingly impacting marine protected areas (MPAs) and MPA
networks, yet adaptation strategies are rarely incorporated into MPA design and …

Increasingly frequent severe coral bleaching is among the greatest threats to coral reefs
posed by climate change. Global climate models (GCMs) project great spatial variation in …

Coral reefs support the livelihood of millions of people especially those engaged in marine
fisheries activities. Coral reefs are highly vulnerable to climate change induced stresses that …

Systematic conservation planning (SCP) is a field of conservation biology concerned with
delivering on‐the‐ground actions that achieve conservation goals. It describes a set of …

Climate change and land-cover change will have major impacts on biodiversity persistence
worldwide. These two stressors are likely to interact, but how climate change will mediate …

A vast number of prioritization schemes have been developed to help conservation navigate
tough decisions about the allocation of finite resources. However, the application of …

Cumulative pressures from global climate and ocean change combined with multiple
regional and local‐scale stressors pose fundamental challenges to coral reef managers …

Global stressors, including climate change, are a major threat to ecosystems, but they
cannot be halted by local actions. Ecosystem management is thus attempting to compensate …

The principles of systematic conservation planning are now widely used by governments
and non-government organizations alike to develop biodiversity conservation plans for …