The semi-enclosed nature of the Mediterranean Sea, together with its smaller inertia due to
the relative short residence time of its water masses, make it highly reactive to external …

Most fisheries literature avoids speaking about ecosystem impacts of fishing, either because
impacts are not demonstrated or because a causal relationship between impacts and fishing …

We review the effects of fishing on benthic fauna, habitat, diversity, community structure and
trophic interactions in tropical, temperate and polar marine environments and consider …

Marine reserves are quickly gaining popularity as a management option for marine
conservation, fisheries, and other human uses of the oceans. Despite the popularity of …

Removal of important predators by fishing can result in trophic cascades and indirect effects
on marine benthic communities. Indirect effects are especially evident when prey …

An important principle of environmental science is that changes in single components of
systems are likely to have consequences elsewhere in the same systems. In the sea, food …

Replicated ecological studies in marine reserves and associated unprotected areas are
valuable in examining top-down impacts on communities and the ecosystem-level effects of …

Marine reserves are a spatial approach to marine management and conservation aimed at
protecting and restoring multispecies assemblages and the structure and function of marine …

In the last decades, marine reserves have dramatically increased in number worldwide.
Here I examined the potential of no‐take marine reserves to reestablish lost predatory …

We investigated the community-wide effects of no-take marine reserves at the regional scale
in the Mediterranean Sea. Reserves had general positive effects of protection on fish …