Current and future sustainability of island coral reef fisheries
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Widespread unsustainability of island coral reef fisheries is reported, implying that management methods to reduce social and economic dependence on reef fisheries are essential to prevent the collapse of coral reef ecosystems while sustaining the well-being of burgeoning coastal populations.About:
This article is published in Current Biology.The article was published on 2007-04-03 and is currently open access. It has received 374 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Coral reef organizations & Coral reef protection.read more
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Coral Reefs Under Rapid Climate Change and Ocean Acidification
Ove Hoegh-Guldberg,Peter J. Mumby,Anthony J. Hooten,Robert S. Steneck,Paul F. Greenfield,Edgardo D. Gomez,C. D. Harvell,Peter F. Sale,Alasdair J. Edwards,Ken Caldeira,Nancy Knowlton,C. M. Eakin,Roberto Iglesias-Prieto,Nyawira A. Muthiga,Roger Bradbury,Alfonse M. Dubi,Marea E. Hatziolos +16 more
TL;DR: As the International Year of the Reef 2008 begins, scaled-up management intervention and decisive action on global emissions are required if the loss of coral-dominated ecosystems is to be avoided.
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Extinction risk and conservation of the world's sharks and rays
Nicholas K. Dulvy,Sarah L. Fowler,John A. Musick,Rachel D. Cavanagh,Peter M. Kyne,Lucy R. Harrison,John K. Carlson,Lindsay Davidson,Sonja V. Fordham,Malcolm P. Francis,Caroline M. Pollock,Colin A. Simpfendorfer,George H. Burgess,Kent E. Carpenter,Leonard J. V. Compagno,David A. Ebert,Claudine Gibson,Michelle R. Heupel,Suzanne R. Livingstone,Jonnell C. Sanciangco,John D. Stevens,Sarah Valenti,William T. White +22 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present the first systematic analysis of threat for a globally distributed lineage of 1,041 chondrichthyan fishes (sharks, rays, and chimaeras).
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Vulnerability of national economies to the impacts of climate change on fisheries
Edward H. Allison,Edward H. Allison,Allison L. Perry,Allison L. Perry,Marie-Caroline Badjeck,Marie-Caroline Badjeck,W. Neil Adger,Katrina Brown,Ashley S. Halls,Graham M. Pilling,John D. Reynolds,Neil L. Andrew,Nicholas K. Dulvy,Nicholas K. Dulvy +13 more
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compared the vulnerability of 132 national economies to potential climate change impacts on their capture fisheries using an indicator-based approach and found that countries in Central and Western Africa (e.g. Malawi, Guinea, Senegal, and Uganda), Peru and Colombia in north-western South America, and four tropical Asian countries (Bangladesh, Cambodia, Pakistan, and Yemen) were identified as most vulnerable.
Reefs at Risk Revisited
TL;DR: The Reefs at Risk Revisited project as mentioned in this paper is a project of the World Resources Institute (WRI), developed and implemented in close collaboration with The Nature Conservancy (TNC), the WorldFish Center, the International Coral Reef Action Network (ICRAN), the United Nations Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), and the Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN).
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Coral reef management and conservation in light of rapidly evolving ecological paradigms
Peter J. Mumby,Robert S. Steneck +1 more
TL;DR: It is concluded that both science and management are currently failing to address the management of extractive activities and ecological processes that drive ecosystems (e.g. productivity and herbivory).
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