▪ Abstract The direct effects of marine habitat disturbance by commercial fishing have been
well documented. However, the potential ramifications to the ecological function of seafloor …

The massive scale of the 1997–1998 El Niño–associated coral bleaching event underscores
the need for strategies to mitigate biodiversity losses resulting from temperature‐induced …

Traditional ecological knowledge (TEK) represents multiple bodies of knowledge
accumulated through many generations of close interactions between people and the …

Photographic quadrat sampling is commonly used for the study of sessile benthic
communities. However, photoquadrat data handling is fragmented into several processing …

Coral reefs provide a number of ecosystem services including coastal defense from storms,
the generation of building materials, and fisheries. It is increasingly clear that the …

Marine reserves are a spatial approach to marine management and conservation aimed at
protecting and restoring multispecies assemblages and the structure and function of marine …

The utility of no‐take marine reserves as fisheries‐management tools is controversial. It is
hypothesized that marine reserves will help to sustain fisheries external to them by …

Management areas are used in marine spatial planning to conserve biodiversity of marine
ecosystems and to protect fish from fishing pressure. To evaluate the effectiveness of these …

The theory underlying the design of marine reserves, whether the goal is to preserve
biodiversity or to manage fisheries, is still in its infancy. For both of these goals, there is a …

Abstract Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are designed to enhance biodiversity and
ecosystem services. Some MPAs are also established to benefit fisheries through increased …