▪ Abstract Species extinctions and the deterioration of other biodiversity features worldwide
have led to the adoption of systematic conservation planning in many regions of the world …

Drawing on our experience in establishing marine protected areas (MPAs) in the Roviana
and Vonavona Lagoons, New Georgia, Solomon Islands, this paper shows how a …

Some authors argue that overfishing is an important reason that reef corals have declined in
recent decades. Their reasoning is that overfishing removes herbivores, releasing …

Socioeconomic considerations should have an important place in reserve design.
Systematic reserve‐selection tools allow simultaneous optimization for ecological objectives …

Concerns are being raised about high failure rates of community-based small-scale no-take
marine reserves that are proliferating in the Southeast Asian region. Factors hypothesized to …

Given the frequent socioeconomic, political and concomitant ecological failures of science-
driven marine protected area (MPA) programmes, it is now important to design MPAs by …

The design of marine reserves is complex and fraught with uncertainty. However, protection
of critical habitat is of paramount importance for reserve design. We present a case study as …

Se presenta una revisión de la literatura científica sobre los ecosistemas marinos del
Pacífico sur de Costa Rica. La mayor parte de la información generada hasta la fecha se …

With the adoption of the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD; UN, 1992), managing the
environment in an ecologically sustainable manner has shifted from being an option to …

Summary 1 Understanding whether Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) can be considered as a
suitable tool for restoring the structure and function of populations and assemblages is …