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PT J
TI Perception of natural habitat changes of West African marine protected areas
BT 
AF FAILLER, Pierre
   TOURON-GARDIC, Gregoire
   SADIO, Oumar
   TRAORE, Marie-Suzanne
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C1 Univ Portsmouth, Fac Econ & Law, Ctr Blue Governance, Portsmouth P01 3DE, Hants, England.
   Res Inst Dev IRD, UMR LEMAR 195 Marine Sci Lab MARin, Dakar 1386, Senegal.
   Marine Protected Areas Network West Africa RAMPAO, Sacred Heart 3, Dakar, Senegal.
C2 UNIV PORTSMOUTH, UK
   IRD, FRANCE
   MPAS, SENEGAL
UM LEMAR
IN WOS Cotutelle UMR
   copubli-europe
   copubli-int-hors-europe
   copubli-sud
IF 3.284
TC 5
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00657/76866/78194.pdf
LA English
DT Article
DE ;Environmental change;Marine Protected Areas (MPAs);Manager perception;Satellite images;Habitats changes
AB The evolution of marine protected areas (MPAs) in West Africa is reviewed through a survey of managers' perception carried on between 2017 and 2018 for the establishment of the baseline of MPAs of the Network of Marine Protected Areas of West Africa (RAMPAO). Managers report that all natural habitats are subject to surface area losses. The most affected habitats were beaches, mudflats and estuarine channels, caused by erosion and rainfall deficit. Seagrasses, rocky bottoms and coral reefs also seem to be affected, but as they are not monitored and as the managers' knowledge is poor toward these habitats, changes are not properly recorded. Despite some damages, coastal forests seem to be the only natural habitat that see positive changes, mainly due to regular reforestation activities. Comparing managers' perception to scientific papers using satellite imagery shows that their judgement is similar for some habitats (beaches and forests), although there are some differences between their perception and scientific analyses about mangroves changes and even between scientific analyses themselves. However, managers' understanding of impacts coming from human activity and climate change is not strong enough. Consequently, these threats 
PY 2020
PD APR
SO Ocean & Coastal Management
SN 0964-5691
PU Elsevier Sci Ltd
VL 187
UT 000519661400006
DI 10.1016/j.ocecoaman.2020.105120
ID 76866
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