Global marine protected areas do not secure the evolutionary history of tropical corals and fishes
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| Date | 2016-01 | ||||||||||||||||
| Language | English | ||||||||||||||||
| Author(s) | Mouillot D.1, 2, Parravicini V.3, Bellwood D. R.2, Leprieur F.1, Huang D.4, 5, Cowman P. F.6, Albouy Camille 7, Hughes T. P.2, Thuiller W.8, 9, Guilhaumon F.1 |
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| Affiliation(s) | 1 : Univ Montpellier, IRD CNRS IFREMER UM, UMR MARBEC 9190, F-34095 Montpellier, France. 2 : James Cook Univ, Australian Res Council Ctr Excellence Coral Reef, Townsville, Qld 4811, Australia. 3 : Univ Perpignan, CRIOBE, USR CNRS EPHE UPVD 3278, Labex Corail, F-66860 Perpignan, France. 4 : Natl Univ Singapore, Dept Biol Sci, Singapore 117543, Singapore. 5 : Natl Univ Singapore, Trop Marine Sci Inst, Singapore 117543, Singapore. 6 : Yale Univ, Dept Ecol & Evolutionary Biol, 21 Sachem St, New Haven, CT 06511 USA. 7 : Univ Quebec, Dept Biol Chim & Geog, 300 Allee Ursulines, Rimouski, PQ G5L 3A1, Canada. 8 : Univ Grenoble Alpes, Lab Ecol Alpine LECA, F-38000 Grenoble, France. 9 : CNRS, Lab Ecol Alpine LECA, F-38000 Grenoble, France. |
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| Source | Nature Communications (2041-1723) (Nature Publishing Group), 2016-01 , Vol. 7 , N. 10359 , P. 1-8 | ||||||||||||||||
| DOI | 10.1038/ncomms10359 | ||||||||||||||||
| WOS© Times Cited | 49 | ||||||||||||||||
| Abstract | Although coral reefs support the largest concentrations of marine biodiversity worldwide, the extent to which the global system of marine-protected areas (MPAs) represents individual species and the breadth of evolutionary history across the Tree of Life has never been quantified. Here we show that only 5.7% of scleractinian coral species and 21.7% of labrid fish species reach the minimum protection target of 10% of their geographic ranges within MPAs. We also estimate that the current global MPA system secures only 1.7% of the Tree of Life for corals, and 17.6% for fishes. Regionally, the Atlantic and Eastern Pacific show the greatest deficit of protection for corals while for fishes this deficit is located primarily in the Western Indian Ocean and in the Central Pacific. Our results call for a global coordinated expansion of current conservation efforts to fully secure the Tree of Life on coral reefs. |
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