Even though environmental awareness is continuously increasing, the environment is still at
risk. The loss of biological diversity, or biodiversity, of species and habitats, as well as …

We used stable isotope analysis to investigate the relative importance of marine and
terrestrial sources of organic matter to the food web of 4 nearshore reefs in the Santa …

1.1 Background The recently released Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
(Stern 2007) concluded that it makes economic sense to invest in mitigating greenhouse …

Habitat maps are frequently invoked as surrogates of biodiversity to aid the design of
networks of marine reserves. Maps are used to maximize habitat heterogeneity in reserves …

1.1 Background The recently released Stern Review on the Economics of Climate Change
(Stern 2007) concluded that it makes economic sense to invest in mitigating greenhouse …

Community and resource user support has often been declared as essential to achieving
globally agreed targets for marine protection. Given that indigenous people in Canada have …

In addition to protecting important species or ecosystems, ideally Marine Protected Areas
(MPAs) should also act as propagule sources and be located where they can receive larval …

The importance of studying coral communities at different spatial scales is acknowledged in
a growing volume of scientific literature, and principles of landscape ecology were thus used …

We examine the influence of reserve size and boundary length on the relative rate of fish
density change in reserves versus fished reference reefs for three exploitable-sized reef fish …

Abstract Fraser, HM, Greenstreet, SPR, Fryer, RJ, and Piet, GJ 2008. Mapping spatial
variation in demersal fish species diversity and composition in the North Sea: accounting for …