Background As global change and anthropogenic pressures continue to increase,
conservation and management increasingly needs to consider species' potential to adapt to …

Rocky shore ecology has been studied for a long time, starting with qualitative descriptions
and becoming more quantitative and experimental over time. Some of the earliest …

Coastal ecosystems are highly vulnerable to human-mediated drivers of global change
because they are located at the land–ocean interface and often host centres of urbanisation …

The intertidal zone on rocky shores is of key ecological importance because it supports high
biodiversity, provides critical ecosystem services such as nurseries and refuges, and …

Seascape connectivity (landscape connectivity in the sea) can modify reserve performance
in low‐energy marine ecosystems (eg, coral reefs, mangroves, and seagrass), but it is not …

This study assessed the effectiveness of no-take areas in the Table Mountain National Park
MPA in protecting the biodiversity of intertidal rocky shores from impacts of harvesting …

Algal blooms commonly occur along the South African west coast. In March 1994 a dense
bloom developed within St Helena Bay. Its subsequent decay caused near-shore hypoxia …

Where biological datasets are spatially limited, abiotic surrogates have been advocated to
inform objective planning for Marine Protected Areas. However, this approach assumes …

Peracarid crustaceans are an important component of the vagile fauna associated with
coralline algal beds, which often characterize the infralittoral fringe of tropical rocky shores …

Systematic planning, using algorithm tools, can improve biodiversity representation in 'no-
take'zones in a marine park while reducing costs of meeting conservation targets. The …