Quantifying biases in marine protected area placement relative to abatable threats
conservation targets
conservation planning
The published paper is available on-line.
We quantified marine protected area establishment relative to abatable threats (i.e., threats that MPAs can stop, like fishing). We found that most of the global MPA network avoids abatable threats and discuss the conservation implications.
This work was recognised as a highly cited article in the journal Conservation Biology in 2020.
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