Coral reef conservation in the Anthropocene: Confronting spatial mismatches and prioritizing functions

DR Bellwood, MS Pratchett, TH Morrison… - Biological …, 2019 - Elsevier
The world's coral reefs are rapidly transforming, with decreasing coral cover and new
species configurations. These new Anthropocene reefs pose a challenge for conservation; …

Demographic and genetic approaches to study dispersal in wild animal populations: A methodological review

H Cayuela, Q Rougemont, JG Prunier… - Molecular …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Dispersal is a central process in ecology and evolution. At the individual level, the three
stages of the dispersal process (ie, emigration, transience and immigration) are affected by …

Demographic dynamics of the smallest marine vertebrates fuel coral reef ecosystem functioning

SJ Brandl, L Tornabene, CHR Goatley, JM Casey… - Science, 2019 - science.org
How coral reefs survive as oases of life in low-productivity oceans has puzzled scientists for
centuries. The answer may lie in internal nutrient cycling and/or input from the pelagic zone …

Protecting connectivity promotes successful biodiversity and fisheries conservation

L Fontoura, S D'agata, M Gamoyo, DR Barneche… - Science, 2022 - science.org
The global decline of coral reefs has led to calls for strategies that reconcile biodiversity
conservation and fisheries benefits. Still, considerable gaps in our understanding of the …

Successful validation of a larval dispersal model using genetic parentage data

M Bode, JM Leis, LB Mason, DH Williamson… - PLoS …, 2019 - journals.plos.org
Larval dispersal is a critically important yet enigmatic process in marine ecology, evolution,
and conservation. Determining the distance and direction that tiny larvae travel in the open …

A connectivity portfolio effect stabilizes marine reserve performance

HB Harrison, M Bode, DH Williamson… - Proceedings of the …, 2020 - pnas.org
Well-managed and enforced no-take marine reserves generate important larval subsidies to
neighboring habitats and thereby contribute to the long-term sustainability of fisheries …

Coral reef population genomics in an age of global change

ML Pinsky, RD Clark, JT Bos - Annual Review of Genetics, 2023 - annualreviews.org
Coral reefs are both exceptionally biodiverse and threatened by climate change and other
human activities. Here, we review population genomic processes in coral reef taxa and their …

Linking home ranges to protected area size: The case study of the Mediterranean Sea

A Di Franco, JG Plass-Johnson, M Di Lorenzo… - Biological …, 2018 - Elsevier
Protected areas not allowing extractive activities (here called fully protected area) are a
spatially explicit conservation management tool commonly used to ensure populations …

Marine reserves contribute half of the larval supply to a coral reef fishery

M Bode, S Choukroun, MJ Emslie, HB Harrison… - Science …, 2025 - science.org
Marine reserves deliver impressive increases in the abundance and size of exploited
species on protected reefs, but larval dispersal makes it difficult to estimate their wider …

Continuity in morphological disparity in tropical reef fishes across evolutionary scales

GFA Donati, C Albouy, T Claverie, D Mouillot… - Communications …, 2025 - nature.com
Tropical reef fishes exhibit a large disparity of organismal morphologies contributing to their
astonishing biodiversity. Morphological disparity, scaling from differences among individuals …