Effective Dispersal of Caribbean Reef Fish is Smaller than Current Spacing Among Marine Protected Areas.

doi:10.1038/s41598-017-04849-5

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Effective Dispersal of Caribbean Reef Fish is Smaller than Current Spacing Among Marine Protected Areas.

Scientific reports - 5 Jul 2017

Beltrán Diana M, Schizas Nikolaos V, Appeldoorn Richard S, Prada Carlos

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The oceans are deteriorating at a fast pace. Conservation measures, such as Marine Protected Areas, are being implemented to relieve areas from local stressors and allow populations to restore to natural levels. Successful networks of MPAs operate if the space among MPAs is smaller than the dispersal capacity of the species under protection. We studied connectivity patterns across populations in a series of MPAs...

Topics

Animals
Caribbean Region
Conservation of Natural Resources
Ecosystem
Fishes
Gene Flow
Polymorphism, Single Nucleotide
Population Dynamics

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PMID: 28680075
DOI: 10.1038/s41598-017-04849-5
PMCID: PMC5498645

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