Spillover from marine protected areas to adjacent fisheries has an ecological and a fishery component

M Di Lorenzo, J Claudet, P Guidetti - Journal for Nature Conservation, 2016 - Elsevier
Abstract Marine Protected Areas (MPAs), if well designed and managed, can produce
conservation benefits to fish assemblages within no-take zones and fishery benefits in …

Plastic pollution on the world's coral reefs

HT Pinheiro, C MacDonald, RG Santos, R Ali, A Bobat… - Nature, 2023 - nature.com
Coral reefs are losing the capacity to sustain their biological functions. In addition to other
well-known stressors, such as climatic change and overfishing, plastic pollution is an …

Microbial processes driving coral reef organic carbon flow

CB Silveira, GS Cavalcanti, JM Walter… - FEMS microbiology …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
Coral reefs are one of the most productive ecosystems on the planet, with primary
production rates compared to that of rain forests. Benthic organisms release 10–50% of their …

Assessing spillover from marine protected areas and its drivers: A meta‐analytical approach

M Di Lorenzo, P Guidetti, A Di Franco, A Calò… - Fish and …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Overfishing may seriously impact fish populations and ecosystems. Marine protected areas
(MPAs) are key tools for biodiversity conservation and fisheries management, yet the …

South‐western Atlantic reef fishes: Zoogeographical patterns and ecological drivers reveal a secondary biodiversity centre in the Atlantic Ocean

HT Pinheiro, LA Rocha, RM Macieira… - Diversity and …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Aim To present an updated database of fish species recorded on south‐western Atlantic reef
environments and to explore the ecological drivers of the structure, the latitudinal gradient of …

Spillover from marine reserves and the replenishment of fished stocks

BS Halpern, SE Lester, JB Kellner - Environmental conservation, 2009 - cambridge.org
No-take marine reserves are widely recognized as an effective conservation tool for
protecting marine resources. Despite considerable empirical evidence that abundance and …

Drivers of ecological effectiveness of marine protected areas: A meta-analytic approach from the Southwestern Atlantic Ocean (Brazil)

HM Ferreira, RA Magris, SR Floeter… - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
With the rapid global increase in the number and extent of marine protected areas (MPAs),
there is a need for methods that enable an assessment of their actual contribution to …

Ecological effects of marine protected areas on rocky reef communities—a continental-scale analysis

GJ Edgar, RD Stuart-Smith - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2009 - int-res.com
Data compiled by volunteer divers were utilised in a continental-scale investigation of
ecological differences between reefs in no-take sanctuary zones in marine protected areas …

Expectations and outcomes of reserve network performance following re-zoning of the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park

MJ Emslie, M Logan, DH Williamson, AM Ayling… - Current Biology, 2015 - cell.com
Networks of no-take marine reserves (NTMRs) are widely advocated for preserving
exploited fish stocks and for conserving biodiversity. We used underwater visual surveys of …

[PDF][PDF] Fauna ameaçada de extinção no Estado de São Paulo

PM Bressan, MCM Kierulff… - São Paulo: Fundação …, 2009 - researchgate.net
Particularmente o Estado de São Paulo abriga aproximadamente 30% das espécies de
peixes conhecidas no país, das quais em torno de 65% são marinhas ou estuarinas (Castro …