Cindy Huchery

TL;DR: This paper identified 15 bright spots and 35 dark spots among more than 2,500 reefs worldwide and developed a Bayesian hierarchical model to generate expectations of how standing stocks of reef fish biomass are related to 18 socioeconomic drivers and environmental conditions.

TL;DR: Overall, fished sites were marginally more vulnerable than community-based and government marine reserves, and key components of social adaptive capacity varied considerably between the communities.

TL;DR: Critical ecological trade-offs in meeting key conservation objectives are illustrated: reserves placed where there are moderate-to-high human impacts can provide substantial conservation gains for fish biomass, yet they are unlikely to support key ecosystem functions like higher-order predation, which is more prevalent in reserve locations with low human impacts.

TL;DR: The results suggest the need for an increased science and policy focus on markets as both a key driver of the condition of reef fisheries and a potential source of solutions.

TL;DR: Using empirical data spanning >250 coral reefs, it is shown how trophic pyramid shape varies given human-mediated gradients along two orders of magnitude in reef fish biomass, suggesting that fisheries for upper troPHic level species will only be supported under lightly fished scenarios.