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 ...
"When colonies of tropical snapping shrimp clack their outsized, super-fast claws, the noise is so powerful it stuns their prey-and so loud it can obscure the sound of submarines from sonar. Now Marc Lammers, a postdoctoral researcher at the Hawaii Instit...
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...
Risk-sensitive planning for conserving coral reefs under rapid climate change
"Coral reef ecosystems are seriously threatened by changing conditions in the ocean. Although many factors are implicated, climate change has emerged as a dominant and rapidly growing threat. Developing a long-term strategic plan for the conservation of c...
Incorporating climate and ocean change into extinction risk assessments for 82 coral species
"Many marine invertebrate species facing potential extinction have uncertain taxonomies and poorly known demographic and ecological traits. Uncertainties are compounded when potential extinction drivers are climate and ocean changes whose effects on even ...
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 and Community Benefits from Traditional Coral Reef Management at Ahus Island, Papua New Guinea
"We investigated traditional coral reef management practices at Ahus Island, Manus Province, Papua New Guinea, to evaluate their social role in the community and potential to conserve reef ecosystems. For generations, Ahus Islanders have prohibited spear ...
Assessing the effects of marine protected area (MPA) on a reef fish assemblage in a northwestern Mediterranean marine reserve: Identifying community-based indicators.
"Marine protected areas (MPAs) are increasingly envisaged as a tool to manage coastal ecosystems and fisheries. Assessment of their performance with respect to management objectives is therefore important. A number of MPAs provided conservation benefits f...
Migrations of green turtles in the central South Pacific
"Migrations of seven post-nesting green turtles at Rose Atoll (American Samoa) were tracked by satellite transmitters in 1993-1995. Most turtles migrated 1600 km to foraging areas in Fiji and occupied home ranges averaging 27 km2. Additional tag recapture...