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Larval Connectivity in an Effective Network of Marine Protected Areas

Creator:

Christie, Mark R., Tissot, Brian N., Albins, Mark A., Beets, James P., Jia, Yanli, Ortiz, Delisse M., Thompson, Stephen E., and Hixon, Mark A.

Abstract:

Acceptance of marine protected areas (MPAs) as fishery and conservation tools has been hampered by lack of direct evidence that MPAs successfully seed unprotected areas with larvae of targeted species. For the first time, we present direct evidence of large-scale population connectivity within an existing and effective network of MPAs....

Resource Type:

Article