Abstract Design and decision-making for marine protected areas (MPAs) on coral reefs
require prediction of MPA effects with population models. Modeling of MPAs has shown how …

A substantial shift toward use of marine protected areas (MPAs) for conservation and
fisheries management is currently underway. This shift to explicit spatial management …

Marine protected areas (MPAs) that exclude fishing have been shown repeatedly to
enhance the abundance, size, and diversity of species. These benefits, however, mean little …

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 …

For MPAs to provide fishery benefits, at least one of two conditions must hold:(1) there must
be an increase in reproductive capacity and biomass within the reserve, and (2) the …

Marine protected areas (MPAs) are major tools to protect biodiversity and sustain fisheries.
For species with a sedentary adult phase and a dispersive larval phase, the effectiveness of …

Marine reserves are expected to benefit a wide range of species, but most models used to
evaluate their effects assume that adults are sedentary, thereby potentially overestimating …

The relationship between marine reserve design and metapopulation persistence has been
analyzed only for cases of spatially homogenous advective-diffusive larval dispersal …

Marine protected areas (MPAs) implemented to conserve biodiversity must protect many
species with a broad range of movement characteristics. To meet that goal, size and spacing …

In the past two decades, the connotation, assessment method, assessment indicators, data
source and monitoring means of marine sustainable development have been develo** …