Marine protected areas promote stability of reef fish communities under climate warming

Marine protected areas promote stability of reef fish communities under climate warming

Abstract Protection from direct human impacts can safeguard marine life, yet ocean warming crosses marine protected area boundaries. Here, we test whether protection offers resilience to marine heatwaves from local to network scales. We examine 71,269 timeseries of population abundances for 2269 ree...

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Main Authors: Lisandro Benedetti-Cecchi, Amanda E. Bates, Giovanni Strona, Fabio Bulleri, Barbara Horta e Costa, Graham J. Edgar, Bernat Hereu, Dan C. Reed, Rick D. Stuart-Smith, Neville S. Barrett, David J. Kushner, Michael J. Emslie, Jose Antonio García-Charton, Emanuel J. Gonçalves, Eneko Aspillaga
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2024-02-01
Series:Nature Communications
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44976-y

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https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-024-44976-y

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