Climate change, coral loss, and the curious case of the parrotfish paradigm: why don't marine protected areas improve reef resilience?

JF Bruno, IM Côté, LT Toth - Annual review of marine science, 2019‏ - annualreviews.org
Scientists have advocated for local interventions, such as creating marine protected areas
and implementing fishery restrictions, as ways to mitigate local stressors to limit the effects of …

Marine defaunation: animal loss in the global ocean

DJ McCauley, ML Pinsky, SR Palumbi, JA Estes… - Science, 2015‏ - science.org
BACKGROUND Comparing patterns of terrestrial and marine defaunation helps to place
human impacts on marine fauna in context and to navigate toward recovery. Defaunation …

[HTML][HTML] Global decline in capacity of coral reefs to provide ecosystem services

TD Eddy, VWY Lam, G Reygondeau… - One Earth, 2021‏ - cell.com
Coral reefs worldwide are facing impacts from climate change, overfishing, habitat
destruction, and pollution. The cumulative effect of these impacts on global capacity of coral …

High frequency temperature variability reduces the risk of coral bleaching

A Safaie, NJ Silbiger, TR McClanahan… - Nature …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Coral bleaching is the detrimental expulsion of algal symbionts from their cnidarian hosts,
and predominantly occurs when corals are exposed to thermal stress. The incidence and …

Climate change threatens the world's marine protected areas

JF Bruno, AE Bates, C Cacciapaglia, EP Pike… - Nature Climate …, 2018‏ - nature.com
Marine protected areas (MPAs) are a primary management tool for mitigating threats to
marine biodiversity,. MPAs and the species they protect, however, are increasingly being …

The future of resilience-based management in coral reef ecosystems

E Mcleod, KRN Anthony, PJ Mumby, J Maynard… - Journal of environmental …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Resilience underpins the sustainability of both ecological and social systems. Extensive loss
of reef corals following recent mass bleaching events have challenged the notion that …

Incorporating climate change adaptation into marine protected area planning

KL Wilson, DP Tittensor, B Worm… - Global Change …, 2020‏ - Wiley Online Library
Climate change is increasingly impacting marine protected areas (MPAs) and MPA
networks, yet adaptation strategies are rarely incorporated into MPA design and …

Sexual production of corals for reef restoration in the Anthropocene

CJ Randall, AP Negri, KM Quigley, T Foster… - Marine Ecology …, 2020‏ - int-res.com
Coral-reef ecosystems are experiencing frequent and severe disturbance events that are
reducing global coral abundance and potentially overwhelming the natural capacity for reefs …

Climate resilience in marine protected areas and the 'Protection Paradox'

AE Bates, RSC Cooke, MI Duncan, GJ Edgar… - Biological …, 2019‏ - Elsevier
Restricting human activities through Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) is assumed to create
more resilient biological communities with a greater capacity to resist and recover following …

Nitrogen enrichment, altered stoichiometry, and coral reef decline at Looe Key, Florida Keys, USA: a 3-decade study

BE Lapointe, RA Brewton, LW Herren, JW Porter, C Hu - Marine Biology, 2019‏ - Springer
Increased loadings of nitrogen (N) from fertilizers, top soil, sewage, and atmospheric
deposition are important drivers of eutrophication in coastal waters globally. Monitoring …