Well‐designed and effectively managed networks of marine reserves can be effective tools
for both fisheries management and biodiversity conservation. Connectivity, the demographic …

Increasingly, the success of management interventions aimed at biodiversity conservation
are viewed as being dependent on the 'resilience'of the system. Although the term …

Outbreaks of crown-of-thorns starfish (Acanthaster spp.) remain a major cause of coral
mortality in the Indo-Pacific, contributing to widespread and accelerating degradation of …

Outbreaks of the coral-killing seastar Acanthaster planci are intense disturbances that can
decimate coral reefs. These events consist of the emergence of large swarms of the …

Background Microbial inhabitants of soils are important to ecosystem and planetary
functions, yet there are large gaps in our knowledge of their diversity and ecology. The …

Global reductions in biodiversity and the accelerating loss and degradation of many of the
world's ecosystems have intensified research into the roles of species in ecosystem …

Overfishing and habitat destruction due to local and global threats are undermining
fisheries, biodiversity, and the long-term sustainability of tropical marine ecosystems …

The several forms of ecological spatial connectivity–population, genetic, community,
ecosystem–are among the most important ecological processes in determining the …

Highlights•Coral reef habitats are in decline, with reductions in coral cover and
structure.•Most fishes (regardless of their size) are less abundant on degraded reefs.•Highly …

Around the globe, coral reefs and other marine ecosystems are increasingly overfished.
Conventionally, studies of fishing impacts have focused on the population size and …