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Implications of macroalgal isolation by distance for networks of marine protected areas.
Conservation biology : the journal of the Society for Conservation Biology - 1 Apr 2014
Durrant Halley M S, Burridge Christopher P, Kelaher Brendan P, Barrett Neville S, Edgar Graham J, Coleman Melinda A
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The global extent of macroalgal forests is declining, greatly affecting marine biodiversity at broad scales through the effects macroalgae have on ecosystem processes, habitat provision, and food web support. Networks of marine protected areas comprise one potential tool that may safeguard gene flow among macroalgal populations in the face of increasing population fragmentation caused by pollution, habitat...
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