Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features

By G. Edgar, R. Stuart‐Smith, Trevor J. Willis, Stuart J. Kininmonth, Stuart Kininmonth, Susan C. Baker, S. Banks, Neville Barrett, M. Becerro, A. Bernard and 16 more. Nature, 2014

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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change

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2. S. R. Floeter
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7. J. Cinner
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Citations in the corpus

• Viewpoint – Ocean Plastic Pollution: a convenient but distracting truth? (2019, neutral): “Marine protected areas are frequently poorly governed and ineffective [52, 53] and we are currently below a 10% target of marine protected areas, despite recent scientific research calling for 30% protection [54].”
• A global assessment of the direct and indirect benefits of marine protected areas for coral reef conservation (2018, methodology): “A recent study highlighted the importance of five key planning and management attributes for enhancing the biomass of large fishes in MPAs: no- take regulations, well- enforced compliance, >10 years old, large and isolated by habitat boundaries (Edgar et al., 2014).”
• The biodiversity of species and their rates of extinction, distribution, and protection (2014, background): “areas that are no-take, well-enforced, old, large, and isolated by deep water or sand are disproportionately successful in retaining their species (110).”
• Tropicalisation of temperate reefs: Implications for ecosystem functions and management actions (2019, background): “Cessation of extractive activities within MPAs generally results in greater abundance and size of higher order predators (Edgar et al., 2014; Lester et al., 2009).”
• Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean (2015, background): “Marine protected areas can offer this sort of refuge for animal populations (88).”
• Conservation and fisheries effects of spawning aggregation marine protected areas: What we know, where we should go, and what we need to get there (2014, background): “These factors are among those listed as keys to conservation success in a recent large-scale review of MPA effectiveness (Edgar et al., 2014).”
• Fish conservation in freshwater and marine realms: status, threats and management (2016, background): “The existence and magnitude of these responses depends upon a reserve's area, age, extent of fishing exclusion, degree of isolation from surrounding habitats, and compliance with management regulations (Ballantine, 2014; Edgar et al., 2014).”
• Levels and drivers of fishers' compliance with marine protected areas (2015, background): “Ecological considerations for planning MPAs commonly suggest that large, no-take MPAs are preferable to smaller ones because they can, for instance, encompass more habitats and highly mobile species, and offer higher levels of protection (Edgar et al. 2014, Green et al. 2014).”