Accurate assessment of marine protected area success depends on metric and spatiotemporal scale of monitoring

Marine Ecology Progress Series

Volumn 489, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-28

  Moffitt, Elizabeth A ^a,b   White, J Wilson ^a,c   Botsford, Louis W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA WILMINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Ecosystem based management; Fisheries; Larval dispersal; Marine reserve; Monitoring; Movement; Population dynamics; Transient dynamics

Indexed keywords

ABUNDANCE; ECOSYSTEM APPROACH; FISHING EFFORT; ICHTHYOFAUNA; LARVAL TRANSPORT; MARINE PARK; MONITORING SYSTEM; MOVEMENT; PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RESERVE DESIGN; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EID: 84883416793     PISSN: 01718630     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3354/meps10425     Document Type: Article

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