Conservation of coral reef biodiversity: a comparison of reserve selection procedures for corals and fishes
"A range of different biodiversity-based selection methods for nature reserves has been tested for terrestrial environments, including those based on diversity hotspots, endemicity hotspots and complementarity. In this study, we investigate the utility of...
Global mismatch between research effort and conservation needs of tropical coral reefs
"Tropical coral reefs are highly diverse and globally threatened. Management to ensure their persistence requires sound biological knowledge in regions where coral reef biodiversity and/or the threats to it are greatest. This paper uses a novel text analy...
Conservation of coral reefs after the 1998 global bleaching event
"Large-scale coral bleaching has happened repeatedly in the Pacific and Indian oceans and the Caribbean since 1982. Previously it was observed only on a small scale..."
When the species is also a habitat: Comparing the predictively modelled distributions of Lophelia pertusa and the reef habitat it forms
"Internationally there is political momentum to establish networks of marine protected areas for the conservation of threatened species and habitats. Practical implementation of such networks requires an understanding of the distribution of these species ...
Apparent rapid fisheries escalation at a remote Caribbean island
"Navassa Island is a small uninhabited island, approximately 60 km west of the south-west tip of Haiti (1824'N, 7500'W). Haiti laid claim to the island in 1804, however the USA claimed it under the Guano Act of 1856 and recently placed it under jurisdicti...
Monitoring and Evaluation of Reef Protected Areas by Local Fishers in the Philippines: Tightening the Adaptive Management Cycle
Monitoring by local community managers tightens the adaptive management cycle by linking management more closely with its evaluation, so management actions become more responsive to the field situation. Local community volunteers, usually fishers, managin...
Assessing the importance of fishing impacts on Hawaiian coral reef fish assemblages along regional-scale human population gradients
"Humans can impact coral reef fishes directly by fishing, or indirectly through anthropogenic degradation of habitat. Uncertainty about the relative importance of those can make it difficult to develop and build consensus for appropriate remedial manageme...
Length-based assessment of sustainability benchmarks for coral reef fishes in Puerto Rico
"The sustainability of multispecies coral reef fisheries is a key conservation concern given their economic and ecological importance. Empirical estimation and numerical model analyses were conducted to evaluate exploitation status via resource reference ...
The current worldwide degradation of coral reefs constitutes an international problem that calls for immediate attention. A multitude of conservation hotspots scattered over the circumtropical seas have been identified, but there has been no general agree...
Community involvement in management for maintaining coral reef resilience and biodiversity in southern Caribbean marine protected areas
"Climate change is posing new challenges to conservation because management policies on protected coral reefs are less effective than they were before the current ecosystem degradation. Coral reefs, the most diverse and complex marine ecosystem provide ec...
Conservation of coral reef biodiversity: a comparison of reserve selection procedures for corals and fishes