Marine protected areas
Assessing the contribution of marine protected areas to the trophic functioning of ecosystems: a model for the Banc d'Arguin and the Mauritanian shelf.
... Marine protected areas (MPA) are often viewed as an effective tool to protect aquatic resources from overexploitation and other anthropic sources of degradation ...on marine reserves worldwide ...
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Fish with chips: tracking reef fish movements to evaluate size and connectivity of Caribbean marine protected areas.
... and marine protected areas (MPAs) have been widely implemented to address this ...(i.e., marine reserves) for protecting and rebuilding fish populations is influenced by the movement of ...
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Climate warming, marine protected areas and the ocean-scale integrity of coral reef ecosystems.
... no-take marine protected areas still support high biomass of fish, however they had no positive affect on the ecosystem response to large-scale ...
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Empowerment of the fishing community of Sesimbra through a participatory process: MARGov – collaborative governance in marine protected areas
... a Marine Protected Area (MPA) aims to foster nature conservation and/or planning ...Saldanha Marine Park was implemented as a marine extension of Arrábida Natural Park, and in 2005 its ...
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Response of rocky reef top predators (Serranidae: Epinephelinae) in and around marine protected areas in the Western Mediterranean Sea.
... declines. Marine protected areas (MPAs) can protect populations inside their boundaries and provide individuals to adjacent fishing areas through the process of spillover and larval ...six ...
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A global assessment of the effectiveness of different protection levels in marine protected areas of tropical waters, following a new categorization
... Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) are a common tool for conserving and managing marine and coastal ...fully protected areas (FPAs) to partially protected areas (PPAs), ...
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Reef Fishes at All Trophic Levels Respond Positively to Effective Marine Protected Areas.
... Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) offer a unique opportunity to test the assumption that fish- ing pressure affects some trophic groups more than ...
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Review of the effects of protection in marine protected areas: current knowledge and gaps
... Coastal marine environments host key habitats for many endangered marine populations, yet their acces- sibility and proximity to heavily inhabited areas makes them vulnerable to over exploitation ...
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An assessmet of the potentiality of whale-watching in two marine protected areas and adjacent waters, in Portugal, as a tool for nature conservation
... in marine protected areas (MPA) compared to other areas, whale-watching tourism in those areas and in adjacent waters can have conservationist advantages as platform of opportunity for ...
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Marine Protected Areas (MPAs): Methodologies for assessment
... Marine Protected Areas are an effective way of protecting biodiversity, with potential socio-economic benefits including the enhancement of local fisheries and maintenance of ecosystem ...oppose ...
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Environmental education for tourism providers and volunteers in Marine Protected Areas: The case of the National Park Cozumel Reef
... The PNAC (2013) estimates that 1,500 visi- tors, among them divers and snorkelers, visit the local reef areas daily and the park uses the same value for carrying capacity of the Cozumel reef. The value is ...
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Scaling up management of social-ecological systems: a case study on community-based marine protected areas in the Philippines
... Social-ecological systems are challenging to manage not only because of their many interacting components, but also because they function at multiple interacting scales, many of which are often ignored. This study sought ...
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COASTAL-MARINE PROTECTED AREAS IN SANTA CATARINA UNDER THE LOCAL PEOPLE’S PERSPECTIVE: CONTRIBUTIONS OF THE LITERATURE
... for more profitable activities, also due to the lack of interest in teaching the traditional crafts and skills from older to younger generations. The reduction of the number of young fishermen is verified in Brazil at ...
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Pathways from marine protected area design and management to ecological success
... Using an international dataset compiled from 121 sites in 87 marine protected areas (MPAs) globally (Edgar et al., 2014), I assessed how various configurations of design and management conditions ...
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Novembro, 2016 Tese de Doutoramento em Geografia e Planeamento Territorial Evaluating Performance of Portuguese Marine Spatial Planning Maria Adelaide de Oliveira Ferreira
... existing Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) created by the regional governments being excluded from the new MSP plans, if the national government determines that there is a need to safeguard national ...
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Evaluation of the reserve effect in a marine protected area in Sagres (PNSACV)
... Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been increasingly designated worldwide as a tool to reverse the negative anthropogenic impacts on the ocean realm (Lubchenco et ...for marine and coastal ...
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Fishers' behaviour in response to the implementation of a Marine Protected Area.
... Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) have been widely proposed as a fisheries management tool in addition to their conservation ...for marine conservation and management of coastal ...
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Shellfish dredging pushes a flexible avian top predator out of a marine protected area.
... ‘‘marine protected areas’’ (MPAs), which should be safeguarded by national and international ...are protected under the Ramsar convention and the European Union’s Habitat and Birds ...dredged ...
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Combining natural history collections with fisher knowledge for community-based conservation in Fiji.
... regions. Marine protected areas (MPAs) that incorporate traditional beliefs about reef tenure are generally more successful in reaching conservation goals and ensuring the participation of local ...
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Original Article Artigo Original
... three Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) of the coast of São Paulo State was ...Santos Marine and Xixova-Japui State Parks (PEMLS and XJSP, respectively) and Central Coast Marine Pro- ...
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