Several schemes have been developed to help select the locations of marine reserves. All of
them combine social, economic, and biological criteria, and few offer any guidance as to …

Marine reserves are being established worldwide in response to a growing recognition of
the conservation crisis that is building in the oceans. However, designation of reserves has …

Using ecological criteria as a theoretical framework, we describe the steps involved in
designing a network of marine reserves for conservation and fisheries management …

Efforts to systematically select networks of marine reserves to conserve biodiversity may be
constrained by limited information on the distribution of biodiversity. A potential solution is …

The intensity of human pressure on marine systems has led to a push for stronger marine
conservation efforts. Recently, marine reserves have become one highly advocated form of …

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

Mapping of biodiversity elements to expose gaps in conservation networks has become a
common strategy in nature‐reserve design. We review a set of critical assumptions and …

Using benthic habitat data from the Florida Keys (USA), we demonstrate how siting
algorithms can help identify potential networks of marine reserves that comprehensively …

Over the last three decades a great deal of research, money, and effort have been put into
the development of theory and techniques designed to make conservation more efficient …

Sophisticated computational methods have been developed to help us to identify sets of
nature reserves that maximize the representation of regional diversity, but, until recently, the …