Modern fishing changes the ocean environment in many ways, including disturbing the sea
floor, altering the food webs, and shifting many important ecosystem functions. Natural …

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 …

The vast scope of conservation problems has forced biologists and managers to rely on"
surrogate" species to serve as shortcuts to guide their decision making. These species …

The declining health of marine ecosystems around the world is evidence that current
piecemeal governance is inadequate to successfully support healthy coastal and ocean …

The planning process for California's Marine Life Protection Act in north central California
represents a case study in the design of a regional component of a statewide network of …

Quantifying the extent to which existing reserves meet conservation objectives and
identifying gaps in coverage are vital to developing systematic protected‐area networks …

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 …

The relationship between marine reserve design and metapopulation persistence has been
analyzed only for cases of spatially homogenous advective-diffusive larval dispersal …

A matrix‐based projection model is used in conjunction with the results of a coupled bio‐
physical dispersal model to examine the spread of alleles through subdivided populations …

Once a forest has been destroyed, should one plant a new forest to emulate the old, or else
plant designer forests to satisfy our immediate needs? Should we aim to re-create forests, or …