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View article: Sustainable-use marine protected areas provide co-benefits to human nutrition
Sustainable-use marine protected areas provide co-benefits to human nutrition Open
View article: Nutritional Effects of Sustainable-Use Marine Protected Areas
Nutritional Effects of Sustainable-Use Marine Protected Areas Open
View article: Introducing Elinor for monitoring the governance and management of area‐based conservation
Introducing Elinor for monitoring the governance and management of area‐based conservation Open
Monitoring the governance and management effectiveness of area‐based conservation has long been recognized as an important foundation for achieving national and global biodiversity goals and enabling adaptive management. However, there are…
View article: Co-benefits of marine protected areas for nature and people
Co-benefits of marine protected areas for nature and people Open
View article: Participation, not penalties: Community involvement and equitable governance contribute to more effective multiuse protected areas
Participation, not penalties: Community involvement and equitable governance contribute to more effective multiuse protected areas Open
Accelerating ecosystem degradation has spurred proposals to vastly expand the extent of protected areas (PAs), potentially affecting the livelihoods and well-being of indigenous peoples and local communities (IPLCs) worldwide. The benefits…
View article: Twenty years of change in benthic communities across the Belizean Barrier Reef
Twenty years of change in benthic communities across the Belizean Barrier Reef Open
Disease, storms, ocean warming, and pollution have caused the mass mortality of reef-building corals across the Caribbean over the last four decades. Subsequently, stony corals have been replaced by macroalgae, bacterial mats, and inverteb…
View article: Twenty years of change in benthic communities across the Belizean Barrier Reef
Twenty years of change in benthic communities across the Belizean Barrier Reef Open
Disease, storms, ocean warming, and pollution have caused the mass mortality of reef-building corals across the Caribbean over the last four decades. Subsequently, stony corals have been replaced by macroalgae, bacterial mats, and inverteb…
View article: Twenty years of change in benthic communities across the Belizean Barrier Reef
Twenty years of change in benthic communities across the Belizean Barrier Reef Open
Disease, ocean warming, and pollution have caused catastrophic declines in the cover of living coral on reefs across the Caribbean. Subsequently, reef-building corals have been replaced by invertebrates and macroalgae, leading to changes i…
View article: Re-examining the relationship between invasive lionfish and native grouper in the Caribbean
Re-examining the relationship between invasive lionfish and native grouper in the Caribbean Open
Biotic resistance is the idea that native species negatively affect the invasion success of introduced species, but whether this can occur at large spatial scales is poorly understood. Here we re-evaluated the hypothesis that native large-…
View article: Evidence for protection of targeted reef fish on the largest marine reserve in the Caribbean
Evidence for protection of targeted reef fish on the largest marine reserve in the Caribbean Open
Marine reserves can restore fish abundance and diversity in areas impacted by overfishing, but the effectiveness of reserves in developing countries where resources for enforcement are limited, have seldom been evaluated. Here we assess wh…
View article: Native Predators Do Not Influence Invasion Success of Pacific Lionfish on Caribbean Reefs
Native Predators Do Not Influence Invasion Success of Pacific Lionfish on Caribbean Reefs Open
Biotic resistance, the process by which new colonists are excluded from a community by predation from and/or competition with resident species, can prevent or limit species invasions. We examined whether biotic resistance by native predato…
View article: Coral reef degradation is not correlated with local human population density
Coral reef degradation is not correlated with local human population density Open
The global decline of reef-building corals is understood to be due to a combination of local and global stressors. However, many reef scientists assume that local factors predominate and that isolated reefs, far from human activities, are …
View article: Predatory fish depletion and recovery potential on Caribbean reefs
Predatory fish depletion and recovery potential on Caribbean reefs Open
The natural, prehuman abundance of most large predators is unknown because of the lack of historical data and a limited understanding of the natural factors that control their populations. Determining the supportable predator biomass at a …
View article: Invasive lionfish had no measurable effect on prey fish community structure across the Belizean Barrier Reef
Invasive lionfish had no measurable effect on prey fish community structure across the Belizean Barrier Reef Open
Invasive lionfish are assumed to significantly affect Caribbean reef fish communities. However, evidence of lionfish effects on native reef fishes is based on uncontrolled observational studies or small-scale, unrepresentative experiments,…
View article: Marine mammals and sea turtles listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act are recovering
Marine mammals and sea turtles listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act are recovering Open
The U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) is a powerful environmental law protecting imperiled plants and animals, and a growing number of marine species have been protected under this law as extinction risk in the oceans has increased. Marine…
View article: Marine mammals and sea turtles listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act are recovering
Marine mammals and sea turtles listed under the U.S. Endangered Species Act are recovering Open
The U.S. Endangered Species Act (ESA) is the world’s strongest environmental law protecting imperiled plants and animals, and a growing number of marine species have been protected under this law as extinction risk in the oceans has increa…
View article: Invasive lionfish had no measurable effect on prey fish community structure across the Belizean Barrier Reef
Invasive lionfish had no measurable effect on prey fish community structure across the Belizean Barrier Reef Open
Invasive lionfish are assumed to significantly affect Caribbean reef fish communities. However, evidence of lionfish effects on native reef fishes is based on uncontrolled observational studies or small-scale, unrepresentative experiments,…
View article: Predatory fish depletion and recovery potential on Caribbean reefs
Predatory fish depletion and recovery potential on Caribbean reefs Open
Overfishing has eliminated up to 90% of predatory reef fishes, but recovery potential is still high in several Caribbean reefs.
View article: Fishing down nutrients on coral reefs
Fishing down nutrients on coral reefs Open
View article: Coral reef degradation is not correlated with local human population density
Coral reef degradation is not correlated with local human population density Open
The global decline of reef-building corals is understood to be due to a combination of local and global stressors. However, many reef scientists assume that local factors predominate and that isolated reefs, far from human activities, are …
View article: Reconstructing baselines for Caribbean predatory reef fishes
Reconstructing baselines for Caribbean predatory reef fishes Open
The natural, pre-human, abundance of most large predators is unknown due to the lack of historical data and the poor understanding of the natural factors that control their populations. We assessed the relationship between the biomass of p…
View article: Reconstructing baselines for Caribbean predatory reef fishes
Reconstructing baselines for Caribbean predatory reef fishes Open
The natural, pre-human, abundance of most large predators is unknown due to the lack of historical data and the poor understanding of the natural factors that control their populations. We assessed the relationship between the biomass of p…