Reinventing residual reserves in the sea: Are we favouring ease of establishment over need for protection?

Aquatic Conservation: Marine and Freshwater Ecosystems

Volumn 25, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 480-504

  Devillers, Rodolphe ^a,b   Pressey, Robert L ^a   Grech, Alana ^a   Kittinger, John N ^c   Edgar, Graham J ^d   Ward, Trevor ^e   Watson, Reg ^d  

^a JAMES COOK UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b MEMORIAL UNIVERSITY OF NEWFOUNDLAND   (Canada)

^c Stanford University   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Biodiversity; Conservation priority; Extractive activities; Fisheries; Marine protected area (MPA); Systematic conservation planning

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; COMMERCIAL SPECIES; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; CONSERVATION PLANNING; COST ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; GROWTH RATE; MARINE PARK; NATURAL RESOURCE; POLICY MAKING; PROTECTED AREA; RISK FACTOR; TRAWLING;

AUSTRALIA; CORAL SEA; GREAT BARRIER REEF; QUEENSLAND;

EID: 84923347390     PISSN: 10527613     EISSN: 10990755     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/aqc.2445     Document Type: Article

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