Connectivity and resilience of coral reef metapopulations in marine protected areas: matching empirical efforts to predictive needs

LW Botsford, JW White, MA Coffroth, CB Paris… - Coral reefs, 2009 - Springer
Abstract Design and decision-making for marine protected areas (MPAs) on coral reefs
require prediction of MPA effects with population models. Modeling of MPAs has shown how …

Connectivity, sustainability, and yield: bridging the gap between conventional fisheries management and marine protected areas

LW Botsford, DR Brumbaugh, C Grimes… - Reviews in Fish Biology …, 2009 - Springer
A substantial shift toward use of marine protected areas (MPAs) for conservation and
fisheries management is currently underway. This shift to explicit spatial management …

Earth Stewardship: science for action to sustain the human‐earth system

FS Chapin III, ME Power, STA Pickett, A Freitag… - …, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities affect Earth's life support systems so profoundly as to threaten many of the
ecological services that are essential to society. To address this challenge, a new science …

Biologically representative and well‐connected marine reserves enhance biodiversity persistence in conservation planning

RA Magris, M Andrello, RL Pressey… - Conservation …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Current methods in conservation planning for promoting the persistence of biodiversity
typically focus on either representing species geographic distributions or maintaining …

Persistence of self‐recruitment and patterns of larval connectivity in a marine protected area network

ML Berumen, GR Almany, S Planes… - Ecology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The use of marine protected area (MPA) networks to sustain fisheries and conserve
biodiversity is predicated on two critical yet rarely tested assumptions. Individual MPAs must …

Low Connectivity between Mediterranean Marine Protected Areas: A Biophysical Modeling Approach for the Dusky Grouper Epinephelus marginatus

M Andrello, D Mouillot, J Beuvier, C Albouy, W Thuiller… - PloS one, 2013 - journals.plos.org
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are major tools to protect biodiversity and sustain fisheries.
For species with a sedentary adult phase and a dispersive larval phase, the effectiveness of …

Recovery trajectories of kelp forest animals are rapid yet spatially variable across a network of temperate marine protected areas

JE Caselle, A Rassweiler, SL Hamilton, RR Warner - Scientific reports, 2015 - nature.com
Oceans currently face a variety of threats, requiring ecosystem-based approaches to
management such as networks of marine protected areas (MPAs). We evaluated changes in …

Marine reserve networks for species that move within a home range

EA Moffitt, LW Botsford, DM Kaplan… - Ecological …, 2009 - Wiley Online Library
Marine reserves are expected to benefit a wide range of species, but most models used to
evaluate their effects assume that adults are sedentary, thereby potentially overestimating …

Additive effects of climate change on connectivity between marine protected areas and larval supply to fished areas

M Andrello, D Mouillot, S Somot… - Diversity and …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To study the combined effects of climate change on connectivity between marine
protected areas (MPA s) and larval supply to the continental shelf. Location The …

Population persistence in marine reserve networks: incorporating spatial heterogeneities in larval dispersal

JW White, LW Botsford, A Hastings… - Marine Ecology Progress …, 2010 - int-res.com
The relationship between marine reserve design and metapopulation persistence has been
analyzed only for cases of spatially homogenous advective-diffusive larval dispersal …