Marine reserves are widely used throughout the world to prevent overfishing and conserve
biodiversity, but uncertainties remain about their optimal design. The effects of marine …

Global climate change is having devastating effects on habitat structure in coralreef
ecosystems owing to extreme environmental sensitivities and consequent bleaching of …

Current global marine protection targets aim to protect 10–30% of marine habitats within the
next 3–5 years. However, these targets were adopted without prior assessment of their …

The establishment of marine protected areas is often viewed as a conflict between
conservation and fishing. We considered consumptive and nonconsumptive interests of …

Aim Our aim in this paper is to present the first broad‐scale quantification of species
abundance for rocky intertidal communities along the Pacific coast of North America. Here …

Habitat maps are often the core spatially consistent data set on which marine reserve
networks are designed, but their efficacy as surrogates for species richness and applicability …

No-take marine reserves (NTRs) may promote recovery of exploited populations within their
boundaries and spillover of fishes to adjacent fishing grounds, thus potentially benefiting the …

Marine protected areas (MPAs), including no‐take marine reserves (MRs), play an important
role in the conservation of marine biodiversity. We document the status of MPAs and MRs in …

Recent approaches to the planning of marine protected area (MPA) networks for biodiversity
conservation often stress the need for a representative coverage of habitat types while …

The perceptions of stakeholders towards objectives and zoning of marine-protected areas
(MPAs) in southern Europe were studied through face-to-face interviews to identify areas of …