Larval dispersal connects fish populations in a network of marine protected areas

Planes, Serge; P. Jones, Geoffrey; R. Thorrold, Simon

doi:10.1073/pnas.0808007106

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Larval dispersal connects fish populations in a network of marine protected areas

Published in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences • Mar 23, 2009

Authors:

Serge Planes

Geoffrey P. Jones

Simon R. Thorrold

Abstract

Networks of no-take marine protected areas (MPAs) have been widely advocated for the conservation of marine biodiversity. But for MPA networks to be successful in protecting marine populations, individual MPAs must be self-sustaining or adequately connected to other MPAs via dispersal. For marine sp...

Subject

Marine reserve

Biological dispersal

Marine protected area

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