Management under uncertainty: guide-lines for incorporating connectivity into the protection of coral reefs

LJ McCook, GR Almany, ML Berumen, JC Day… - Coral reefs, 2009 - Springer
The global decline in coral reefs demands urgent management strategies to protect
resilience. Protecting ecological connectivity, within and among reefs, and between reefs …

Larval dispersal connects fish populations in a network of marine protected areas

S Planes, GP Jones… - Proceedings of the …, 2009 - National Acad Sciences
Networks of no-take marine protected areas (MPAs) have been widely advocated for the
conservation of marine biodiversity. But for MPA networks to be successful in protecting …

Larval fish dispersal in a coral-reef seascape

GR Almany, S Planes, SR Thorrold… - Nature Ecology & …, 2017 - nature.com
Larval dispersal is a critical yet enigmatic process in the persistence and productivity of
marine metapopulations. Empirical data on larval dispersal remain scarce, hindering the use …

Persistence of self‐recruitment and patterns of larval connectivity in a marine protected area network

ML Berumen, GR Almany, S Planes… - Ecology and …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
The use of marine protected area (MPA) networks to sustain fisheries and conserve
biodiversity is predicated on two critical yet rarely tested assumptions. Individual MPAs must …

The geographic distribution of Protura (Arthropoda: Hexapoda): a review

L Galli, I Rellini - Biogeographia–The Journal of Integrative …, 2020 - escholarship.org
Protura is a poorly known class of Hexapoda represented by more than 800 species
belonging to 77 genera worldwide. They are tiny soil organisms with low dispersal ability …

First genealogy for a wild marine fish population reveals multigenerational philopatry

OC Salles, B Pujol, JA Maynard… - Proceedings of the …, 2016 - National Acad Sciences
Natal philopatry, the return of individuals to their natal area for reproduction, has advantages
and disadvantages for animal populations. Natal philopatry may generate local genetic …

Environmental factors that influence the distribution of coral reef fishes: modeling occurrence data for broad-scale conservation and management

M Beger, HP Possingham - Marine Ecology Progress Series, 2008 - int-res.com
To manage coral reef species, it is important to identify the factors that determine their
distribution inexpensively. We identified the remotely measured environmental factors that …

Marine reservoir variation in the Bismarck region: An evaluation of spatial and temporal change in ΔR and R over the last 3000 years

F Petchey, S Ulm - Radiocarbon, 2012 - cambridge.org
Interactions between islands, ocean currents, and winds cause large-scale eddies and
upwelling in the lee of islands that can result in spatial variation in the marine radiocarbon …

Engraved prehistoric Conus shell valuables from southeastern Papua New Guinea: their antiquity, motifs and distribution

W Ambrose, F Petchey, P Swadling… - Archaeology in …, 2012 - Wiley Online Library
In the early 1900s thirteen engraved Conus shell valuables were dug from prehistoric
midden mounds in Oro Province. Since the early 1970s nineteen undated surface finds have …

No Population Genetic Structure of Skipjack Tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) in the Tropical Western and Central Pacific Assessed Using Single Nucleotide …

G Anderson, M Lal, B Stockwell, J Hampton… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Skipjack tuna (Katsuwonus pelamis) has historically been considered panmictic at the
ocean basin scale because of the species' life history and substantial absolute population …