Burdens of evidence and the benefits of marine reserves: putting Descartes before des horse?
By Trevor J. Willis, R. Millar, R. Babcock, N. Tolimieri. Environmental Conservation, 2003
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Subfields: Ecology, Global and Planetary Change, Management, Monitoring, Policy and Law
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- Models and indicators for assessing conservation and fisheries-related effects of marine protected areas (2008, unknown): “(2005) corroborate and systematize other recent reviews of empirical studies that point out a low level of empirical evidence (based on statistical significance) for MPA effects (Russ 2002; Willis et al. 2003b), probably reflecting in some instances the lack of appropriate controls and poor experime”
- Recovery trajectories of coral reef fish assemblages within Kenyan marine protected areas (2005, methodology): “…apart from meta-analyses (Mosquera et al. 2000, Cote et al. 2001, Halpern 2003), are based on only one or a few closed areas often at one point in time and measured effects are sensitive to the control or reference sites used for comparison of effectiveness (Willis et al. 2003, Sale et al. 2005).”
- Differential movement patterns and site fidelity among trophic groups of reef fishes in a Hawaiian marine protected area (2010, background): “Marine protected areas (MPAs) are widely invoked as a simple solution for reversing this disturbing trend (e.g., Roberts and Polunin 1993; Nowlis and Roberts 1999; Russ 2002), yet there are significant gaps in scientific knowledge that must be filled if no-take reserves are to be used effectively as”
- Effort distribution and catch patterns adjacent to temperate MPAs (2005, background): “The use of MPAs has been primarily advocated for protection of sensitive marine habitats and associated fauna, reflecting their predominant use in tropical ecosystems (Roberts et al., 2001; Willis et al., 2003; Ashworth and Ormond, 2004).”
- A conceptual framework for the integral management of marine protected areas (2009, unknown): “MPAs reflect the extension of scientific and ethical concerns for the wider health of marine ecosystem conservation, including their component populations and habitats, the processes that sustain them and the functions they provide, having beneficial effects for habitat-specific species associated w”
- Net contribution of spillover from a marine reserve to fishery catches (2010, unknown): “…their conservation benefits, attention to the effects of MPAs on fisheries has grown particularly controversial (Hilborn et al. 2004), primarily due to the scarcity of evidence documenting their efficacy (Willis et al. 2003, Hilborn 2006) and con- cern about loss of fishing grounds (Jones 2008).”
- MARINE RESERVES EXPLOIT POPULATION STRUCTURE AND LIFE HISTORY IN POTENTIALLY IMPROVING FISHERIES YIELDS (2005, background): “Scientific interest in no-take marine reserves has increased enormously over the last decade (Willis et al. 2003), largely in response to a growing awareness of the declining state of many of the world’s fisheries (Botsford et al. 1997, Pauly et al. 1998, 2002, Jackson et al. 2001, Myers and Worm…”
- BUILDING SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES IN FLORIDA'S CORAL REEF ECOSYSTEM: POSITIVE SIGNS IN THE DRY TORTUGAS (2006, background): “…et al., 1998; Guénette et al., 1998; Meester et al., 2001, 2004; Ault et al., 2002, 2005a; Halpern and Warner, 2002, 2003; Gell and Roberts, 2003; Hastings and Botsford, 2003; Lubchenco et al., 2003b; Willis et al., 2003; Bohnsack et al., 2004; Hooker and Gerber, 2004; Mangel and Levin, 2005).”