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COVID-19 lockdown reveals fish density may be much higher in marine reserves

2022-05-19

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Marine reserves generally allow ecotourism to offer an alternative income to fishing. However, we need to assess its impact on wildlife to make this activity sustainable. The COVID-19 lockdown provided a unique opportunity to evaluate wildlife diversity in the absence of human activity. In a Mexican reserve, we monitored fish assemblages before, during, and just after the lockdown. We show that ecotourism activiti...

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Literature Corpus work: 789e0054-d419-5463-b1c7-46537c2dd13e
DOI: 10.1101/2022.05.17.492376

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