Climate change is increasingly impacting marine protected areas (MPAs) and MPA
networks, yet adaptation strategies are rarely incorporated into MPA design and …

Ecological resilience to climate change is a combination of resistance to increasingly
frequent and severe disturbances, capacity for recovery and self-organization, and ability to …

Marine protected areas (MPAs) have the potential to conserve marine resources as well as
provide social and economic benefits to local communities. Yet the percentage of MPAs that …

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 …

The impacts of climate change and the socioecological challenges they present are
ubiquitous and increasingly severe. Practical efforts to operationalize climate-responsive …

Non-government organizations (NGOs), agencies and research groups around the world
have developed diverse approaches to conservation planning at the scale of landscapes …

Conservation plans are usually developed for regions that encompass only one
environmental realm (terrestrial, freshwater or marine) because of logistical, institutional and …

Most applications of systematic conservation planning have not effectively incorporated
biological processes or dynamic threats. We investigated the extent to which connectivity …

Many of the challenges conservation professionals face can be framed as scale
mismatches. The problem of scale mismatch occurs when the planning for and …

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 …