Marine protected areas enhance coral reef functioning by promoting fish biodiversity
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Toward pristine biomass: reef fish recovery in coral reef marine protected areas in Kenya.
Identifying the rates of recovery of fish in no-take areas is fundamental to designing protected area networks, managing fisheries, estimating yields, identifying ecological interactions, and informing stakeholders about the outcomes of this management. Here we study the recovery of coral reef fishes through 37 years of protection using a space-for-time chronosequence of four marine national pa...
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1 Life Sciences Department, Arizona State University, Tempe, AZ 85287, USA 2 Conservation Science Group, Department of Zoology, University of Cambridge, Downing Street, Cambridge CB2 3EJ, UK 3 Department of Biology and Marine Biology, University of North Carolina Wilmington, 601 S. College Road, Wilmington, NC 28403, USA 4 Department of Biology, Dalhousie University, Halifax B3H 4J1, Canada 5 S...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Conservation Letters
سال: 2019
ISSN: 1755-263X,1755-263X
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12638