A review of a decade of lessons from one of the world's largest MPAs: conservation gains and key challenges

GC Hays, HJ Koldewey, S Andrzejaczek, MJ Attrill… - Marine Biology, 2020 - Springer
Given the recent trend towards establishing very large marine protected areas (MPAs) and
the high potential of these to contribute to global conservation targets, we review outcomes …

The inclusion of fisheries and tourism in marine protected areas to support conservation in Indonesia

SN Tranter, GN Ahmadia, DA Andradi-Brown… - Marine Policy, 2022 - Elsevier
With the rapid growth of Indonesia's marine protected area (MPAs) estate in Indonesia,
reaching 23.9 million hectares by January 2020, attention needs to be focused on …

Trends in Indian Ocean marine fisheries since 1950: synthesis of reconstructed catch and effort data

D Zeller, M Ansell, V Andreoli… - Marine and Freshwater …, 2023 - CSIRO Publishing
Context Contrary to other ocean basins, Indian Ocean catches have increased consistently
since 1950, although reported data are known to be incomplete. Fish is a crucial food source …

Social-ecological alignment and ecological conditions in coral reefs

ML Barnes, Ö Bodin, TR McClanahan… - Nature …, 2019 - nature.com
Complex social-ecological interactions underpin many environmental problems. To help
capture this complexity, we advance an interdisciplinary network modeling framework to …

Tracking seabird migration in the tropical Indian Ocean reveals basin-scale conservation need

AM Trevail, MAC Nicoll, R Freeman, M Le Corre… - Current Biology, 2023 - cell.com
Understanding marine predator distributions is an essential component of arresting their
catastrophic declines. 1, 2, 3, 4 In temperate, polar, and upwelling seas, predictable …

Fishing restrictions and remoteness deliver conservation outcomes for Indonesia's coral reef fisheries

SJ Campbell, ES Darling, S Pardede… - Conservation …, 2020 - Wiley Online Library
Coral reef fisheries depend on reef fish biomass to support ecosystem functioning and
sustainable fisheries. Here, we evaluated coral reefs across 4,000 km of the Indonesian …

Multivariate environment-fish biomass model informs sustainability and lost income in Indian Ocean coral reefs

TR McClanahan, S D'Agata, NAJ Graham, MA Kodia… - Marine Policy, 2023 - Elsevier
Many tropical reef fisheries are underperforming relative to maximum sustained yields
despite their importance for the economies and food security of natural resource dependent …

Impacts of pollution, fishing pressure, and reef rugosity on resource fish biomass in West Hawaii

SA Foo, WJ Walsh, J Lecky, S Marcoux… - Ecological …, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Human activities and land‐use drivers combine in complex ways to affect coral reef health
and, in turn, the diversity and abundance of reef fauna. Here we examine the impacts of …

Fisheries yields and species declines in coral reefs

TR McClanahan - Environmental Research Letters, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Negative trade-offs between food production and biodiversity and the positive functional
diversity–productivity relationships are potentially conflicting paradigms that are frequently …

Disentangling drivers of the abundance of coral reef fishes in the Western Indian Ocean

MA Samoilys, A Halford, K Osuka - Ecology and evolution, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Aim Understanding the drivers of the structure of coral reef fish assemblages is vital for their
future conservation. Quantifying the separate roles of natural drivers from the increasing …