Marine protected areas (MPAs) that exclude fishing have been shown repeatedly to enhance the abundance, size, and diversity of species. These benefits, however, mean little …
DJ Pondella, JT Claisse, CM Williams - Frontiers in Marine Science, 2022 - frontiersin.org
Increasing the production of marine fishes is a tractable goal with wide socioeconomic and ecological appeal. Ecosystem restoration projects that increase the amount of suitable …
Establishment of marine protected areas, including fully protected marine reserves, is one of the few management tools available for local communities to combat the deleterious effect of …
Abstract Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are designed to enhance biodiversity and ecosystem services. Some MPAs are also established to benefit fisheries through increased …
Acceptance of marine protected areas (MPAs) as fishery and conservation tools has been hampered by lack of direct evidence that MPAs successfully seed unprotected areas with …
R Cudney-Bueno, X Basurto - PloS one, 2009 - journals.plos.org
Community-based management and the establishment of marine reserves have been advocated worldwide as means to overcome overexploitation of fisheries. Yet, researchers …
Populations of many nearshore marine species are connected through the dispersal of their larvae. In this paper, larval connectivity patterns in the Southern California Bight are …
GR Russ, AC Alcala - Ecological applications, 2011 - Wiley Online Library
Overfishing can have detrimental effects on marine biodiversity and the structure of marine ecosystems. No‐take marine reserves (NTMRs) are much advocated as a means of …
Behavior such as ontogenetic vertical migration (OVM) limits the transport of marine larvae with short pelagic larval durations (PLDs), but its effect on the supposed long-distance …