Marine Biodiversity Hotspots and Conservation Priorities for Tropical Reefs

By C. Roberts, Colin J. McClean, J. Veron, J. Hawkins, Gerald R. Allen, D. McAllister, C. Mittermeier, F. Schueler, M. Spalding, F. Wells and 2 more. Science, 2002

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Subfields: Ecology, Genetics, Global and Planetary Change

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The stages of vertebrate evolutionary radiation (2003, background): “As a rule, tropical regions support greater biodiversity than do their temperate analogs [37, 38 ] ,i n part because there seem to be more ways for organisms to partition habitats.”
Priority areas for conservation of Western Australian coastal fishes: A comparison of hotspot, biogeographical and complementarity approaches (2005, background): “Although the waters off Western Australia are nutrient poor and low in productivity (Hanson et al., in press), they have been identified as the second richest multi-taxon (coral, fishes, lobsters and molluscs) centre of endemism in the world ( Roberts et al., 2002 ).”
Descending to the twilight-zone: changes in coral reef fish assemblages along a depth gradient down to 65 m (2008, background): “The Red Sea is considered a threatened biodiversity hotspot with high species richness and endemism (Roberts et al. 2002, Mora et al. 2003).”
GLOBAL MARINE BIODIVERSITY TRENDS (2006, background): “, (33)], although again there is disagreement and the data are limited to a few well-known taxa.”
Reef-associated crustacean fauna: biodiversity estimates using semi-quantitative sampling and DNA barcoding (2009, background): “For some groups, we have a relatively good understanding of the patterns of diversity and endemism because they are easily collected, and taxonomic expertise is long-standing (especially corals, fishes and some macroinvertebrates) (Veron 1995; Roberts et al. 2002; Karlson et al. 2004).”
Incumbency, diversity, and latitudinal gradients (2008, background): “…of major constituents of western Pacific coral reef communities, which require long-distance founding events in many cases, is symmetrical around a low-latitude peak despite the uneven latitudinal distribution of reef-bearing shelves and island platforms (Roberts et al. 2002; Connolly et al. 2003).”
Shifting Baselines, Local Impacts, and Global Change on Coral Reefs (2008, background): “Most surprisingly, given the substantial attention of conservationists to “hot spots” of biodiversity [42], ecosystem function appears to decline long before any substantial decline in biodiversity.”
MARINE RESERVE DESIGN AND THE EVOLUTION OF SIZE AT MATURATION IN HARVESTED FISH (2005, background): “…should offer (i.e., no-take reserves, recreational-take reserves, restricted-gear reserves, etc.) remains a contentious political issue among scientists, conservationists, commercial fishermen, and recreational fishermen (for example, see Suman et al. 1999, Roberts et al. 2002, Tupper et al. 2002).”
Highly restricted gene flow and deep evolutionary lineages in the giant clam Tridacna maxima (2009, background): “The Red Sea is considered as a multitaxon centre of endemism (Roberts et al. 2002), with 13.”