Marine protected areas (MPAs) are an area-based conservation strategy commonly used to
safeguard marine biodiversity and ecosystem services. Ecological connectivity governs the …

Systematic conservation planning (SCP) has increasingly been used to prioritize
conservation actions, including the design of new protected areas to achieve conservation …

The several forms of ecological spatial connectivity–population, genetic, community,
ecosystem–are among the most important ecological processes in determining the …

A close relationship between adult abundance and stock productivity may not exist for many
marine fish stocks, resulting in concern that the management goal of maximum sustainable …

Current methods in conservation planning for promoting the persistence of biodiversity
typically focus on either representing species geographic distributions or maintaining …

Globally, protected areas are being established to protect biodiversity and to promote
ecosystem resilience. The typical spatial conservation planning process leading to the …

Incorporating connectivity into the design of marine protected areas (MPAs) has met with
conceptual, theoretical, and practical challenges, which include: 1) the need to consider …

Larval dispersal by ocean currents is a critical component of systematic marine protected
area (MPA) design. However, there is a lack of quantitative methods to incorporate larval …

We integrated coral reef connectivity data for the Caribbean and Gulf of Mexico into a
conservation decision-making framework for designing a regional scale marine protected …

Marine reserves are widely used to protect species important for conservation and fisheries
and to help maintain ecological processes that sustain their populations, including …