[Coral-List] New paper on conservation planning accounting for warming disturbances

Rafael Magris rafael.magris at my.jcu.edu.au
Thu Nov 5 06:00:14 EST 2015


Dear all,

I would like to draw your attention to a paper just published in PLoS ONE
dealing with conservation planning and warming disturbances for coral
reefs.

The paper is fully available on PLoS ONE website:

http://journals.plos.org/plosone/article?id=10.1371/journal.pone.0140828


or through my research gate profile:

https://www.researchgate.net/profile/Rafael_Almeida_Magris



Key advances for the study included:

1) setting explicit conservation objectives for reefs in different
temperature regimes that require a range of management options (marine
reserve types);

2) combining retrospective with prospective time-series information on
sea-surface temperature to delineate thermal-stress regimes; and

3) demonstrating a spatial prioritization that is framed by long-term
conservation objectives for situations in which temporally-static reserves
are more feasible than dynamic ones due to ease of implementation.



Apologies for any cross-posting.

Best,

-- 

Rafael Magris

PhD Candidate
ARC Centre of Excellence for Coral Reef Studies
James Cook University
Townsville, QLD 4811, Australia
Phone: +61 07 4781 6063
Fax: +61 07 4781 6722
*http://www.coralcoe.org.au/programs-initiatives/program-6-conservation-planning
<http://www.coralcoe.org.au/programs-initiatives/program-6-conservation-planning>*



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