Climate change, coral loss, and the curious case of the parrotfish paradigm: why don't marine protected areas improve reef resilience?

JF Bruno, IM Côté, LT Toth - Annual review of marine science, 2019 - annualreviews.org
Scientists have advocated for local interventions, such as creating marine protected areas
and implementing fishery restrictions, as ways to mitigate local stressors to limit the effects of …

Consumer diversity interacts with prey defenses to drive ecosystem function

DB Rasher, AS Hoey, ME Hay - Ecology, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Prey traits linking consumer diversity to ecosystem function remain poorly understood. On
tropical coral reefs, herbivores promote coral dominance by suppressing competing …

[PDF][PDF] Protecting marine spaces: global targets and changing approaches

MD Spalding, I Meliane, A Milam, C Fitzgerald… - Ocean Yearbook …, 2013 - academia.edu
OCEAN 27 Page 1 © 2013 Koninklijke Brill NV ISBN 978 90 04 25045 1 LEIDEN • BOSTON
2013 OCEAN YEARBOOK 27 Edited by Aldo Chircop, Scott Coffen-Smout, and Moira …

A global assessment of the direct and indirect benefits of marine protected areas for coral reef conservation

EMA Strain, GJ Edgar, D Ceccarelli… - Diversity and …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract Aim Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly implemented to conserve or
restore coral reef biodiversity, yet evidence of their benefits for enhancing coral cover is …

Temperature‐driven coral decline: the role of marine protected areas

ER Selig, KS Casey, JF Bruno - Global Change Biology, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
Warming ocean temperatures are considered to be an important cause of the degradation of
the world's coral reefs. Marine protected areas (MPA s) have been proposed as one tool to …

Local human activities limit marine protection efficacy on Caribbean coral reefs

A Suchley, L Alvarez‐Filip - Conservation Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Marine ecosystems globally have suffered habitat, biodiversity and function loss in response
to human activity. Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) can limit extractive activities and enhance …

A meta-analysis to assess long-term spatiotemporal changes of benthic coral and macroalgae cover in the Mexican Caribbean

AI Contreras-Silva, A Tilstra, V Migani, A Thiel… - Scientific Reports, 2020 - nature.com
Coral reefs in the wider Caribbean declined in hard coral cover by~ 80% since the 1970s,
but spatiotemporal analyses for sub-regions are lacking. Here, we explored benthic change …

Ecological and socioeconomic strategies to sustain Caribbean coral reefs in a high-CO2 world

AJ Andersson, AA Venn, L Pendleton… - Regional Studies in …, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Caribbean and Western Atlantic region hosts one of the world's most diverse
geopolitical regions and a unique marine biota distinct from tropical seas in the Pacific and …

From marine deserts to algal beds: Treptacantha elegans revegetation to reverse stable degraded ecosystems inside and outside a No‐Take marine reserve

A Medrano, B Hereu, M Cleminson… - Restoration …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Canopy‐forming algae play a key role in temperate coastal ecosystems sustaining complex
habitats that provide food and refuge for rich associated biotic communities. These …

Do no-take reserves benefit Florida's corals? 14 years of change and stasis in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

LT Toth, R Van Woesik, TJT Murdoch, SR Smith… - Coral Reefs, 2014 - Springer
With coral populations in decline globally, it is critical that we tease apart the relative impacts
of ecological and physical perturbations on reef ecosystems to determine the most …