Improving social acceptability of marine protected area networks: A method for estimating opportunity costs to multiple gear types in both fished and currently unfished areas

Biological Conservation

Volumn 144, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 350-361

  Adams, Vanessa M ^a   Mills, Morena ^a   Jupiter, Stacy D ^b   Pressey, Robert L ^a  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b Wildlife Conservation Society South Pacific Program   (Fiji)

Author keywords

Conservation planning; Fish abundance modelling; Marine protected areas (MPAs); Opportunity costs; Zero inflated count models

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; CATCH COMPOSITION; CONSERVATION PLANNING; COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DECISION MAKING; ESTIMATION METHOD; FISHERY MODELING; FISHING COMMUNITY; GEAR SELECTIVITY; MARINE PARK; PERCIFORM; POISSON RATIO; POPULATION DENSITY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

FIJI; KUBULAU; VANUA LEVU;

ACANTHURIDAE; LUTJANIDAE; SCARIDAE;

EID: 78751584793     PISSN: 00063207     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.biocon.2010.09.012     Document Type: Article

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