The marine areas of South America (SA) include almost 30,000 km of coastline and
encompass three different oceanic domains—the Caribbean, the Pacific, and the Atlantic …

Rules governing human behaviour are at the heart of every system of natural resource
management. Without compliance, however, rules are meaningless so effective enforcement …

Aim To present an updated database of fish species recorded on south‐western Atlantic reef
environments and to explore the ecological drivers of the structure, the latitudinal gradient of …

Global reductions in biodiversity and the accelerating loss and degradation of many of the
world's ecosystems have intensified research into the roles of species in ecosystem …

As marine ecosystems are influenced by global and regional processes, standardized
information on community structure has become crucial for assessing broad-scale …

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a common tool for conserving and managing marine
and coastal ecosystems. MPAs encompass a range of protection levels, from fully protected …

In the last decades, a number of studies based on historical records revealed the diversity
loss in the oceans and human-induced changes to marine ecosystems. These studies have …

We investigated the community-wide effects of no-take marine reserves at the regional scale
in the Mediterranean Sea. Reserves had general positive effects of protection on fish …

As most port areas throughout the world, Guanabara Bay (GB), which hosts the Harbour of
Rio de Janeiro (HRJ), is under intense environmental stress. Located in one of the most …

Patterns of community structure in the marine environment are strongly influenced by
population relationships to biotic and physical gradients. The aim of this work is to explore …