Callum M. Roberts

TL;DR: The biodiversity of eukaryote species and their extinction rates, distributions, and protection is reviewed, and what the future rates of species extinction will be, how well protected areas will slow extinction Rates, and how the remaining gaps in knowledge might be filled are reviewed.

TL;DR: Coral reefs are the most biologically diverse of shallow water marine ecosystems but are being degraded worldwide by human activities and climate warming, and conservation efforts targeted toward them could help avert the loss of tropical reef biodiversity.

TL;DR: It is shown that marine reserves in Florida (United States) and St. Lucia have enhanced adjacent fisheries, confirming theoretical predictions that marine reserve can play a key role in supporting fisheries.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors argue that, by integrating large-scale networks of marine reserves into fishery management, they could reverse global fishery declines and provide urgently needed protection for ecosystems.

TL;DR: Surface current patterns were used to map dispersal routes of pelagic larvae from 18 coral reef sites in the Caribbean, finding sites supplied copiously from "upstream" reef areas will be more resilient to recruitment overfishing, less susceptible to species loss, and less reliant on local management than places with little upstream reef.