While the ocean has suffered many losses, there is increasing evidence that important
progress is being made in marine conservation. Examples include striking recoveries of …

In the face of an accelerating extinction crisis, scientists must draw insights from successful
conservation interventions to uncover promising strategies for reversing broader declines …

To mitigate the ongoing threats to coastal ecosystems, and the biodiversity erosion they are
causing, marine‐protected areas (MPAs) have emerged as powerful and widespread …

Longitudinal data sets for population abundance are essential for studies of imperiled
organisms with long life spans or migratory movements, such as marine turtles. Population …

Animal movement and resource use are essential considerations for effective environmental
management, but they are challenging to quantify in expansive natural ecosystems such as …

Nassau grouper (Epinephelus striatus, Serranidae) were one of the most important fishery
species in the Caribbean, but are now listed as critically endangered. Population collapse in …

Groupers (Family Epinephelidae) are valuable and vulnerable reef-associated fishes.
Medium to large-sized Indo-Pacific genera, such as Epinephelus and Plectropomus, are …

Permit (Trachinotus falcatus) occupy a variety of coastal marine habitats and support
valuable recreational fisheries in their home region of the Caribbean Sea. As an aggregate …

Integrated fisheries stock assessment models (SAMs) and integrated population models
(IPMs) are used in biological and ecological systems to estimate abundance and …

Abstract Information on ecological systems often comes from diverse sources with varied
levels of complexity, bias, and uncertainty. Accordingly, analytical techniques continue to …