Thirty new posts have recently been uploaded to MedPAN’s web site to highlight interesting MPA-related research papers that have been published over the last few months.
Each post presents an overview of the content of the paper in lay terms as well as a link to the paper itself. Topics addressed include: EU protection, area-based management, climate change, pinna nobilis, exotic species, pollution, fisheries…..
Here are the papers selected; take a look:
- Marine environment: EU protection is wide but not deep
- Exploring the development of scientific research on Marine Protected Areas: from conservation to global ocean sustainability
- Benefits and gaps in area-based management tools for the ocean sustainable development goal
- Evolving the narrative for protecting a rapidly changing ocean, post-COVID-19
- Assessing the capacity of European regional seas to supply ecosystem services using marine status assessments
- Assessing worth of marine protected areas for the protection of threatened biodiversity using IUCN Red List and Red List Index. A pilot study in six Mediterranean areas
- Marine protected areas do not prevent marine heatwave-induced fish community structure changes in a temperate transition zone
- Pinna nobilis in suboptimal environments are more tolerant to disease but more vulnerable to sever weather phenomena
- Sponges in a changing climate: survival of Agelas oroides in a warming Mediterranean Sea
- Analysis of fish population size distributions confirms cessation of fishing in marine protected areas
- Twelve recommendations for advancing marine conservation in European and contiguous seas
- A review of the combined effects of climate change and other local human stressors on the marine environment
- Baseline data for marine protected areas planning and fisheries monitoring: potential conflicts between recreational IUU and commercial fisheries in the proposed “Taza” MPA (Algeria, SW Mediterranean)
- Differential effects of pollution on adult and recruits of a canopy-forming alga: implications for population viability under low pollutant levels
- Impacts of the non-indigenous seaweed Rugulopteryx okamurae on a Mediterranean coralligenous community (Strait of Gibraltar): the role of long-term monitoring
- Seafloor litter sorting in different domains of Cap de Creus continental shelf and submarine canyon (NW Mediterranean Sea)
- Coralligenous assemblages along their geographical distribution: testing of concepts and implications for management
- Pinna nobilis in the Mar Menor coastal lagoon: a story of colonization and uncertainty
- Multiple non-species-specific pathogens possibly triggered the mass mortality in Pinna nobilis
- How far have we come? A review of MPA network performance indicators in reaching qualitative elements of Aichi Target 11
- Recruitment disruption and the role of unaffected populations for potential recovery after the Pinna nobilis mass mortality event
- Drivers for future alien species impacts: An expert-based assessment
- Recreational fisheries can be of the same magnitude as commercial fisheries: The case of Cyprus
- Ocean acidification causes variable trait-shifts in a coral species
- A connectivity portfolio effect stabilizes marine reserve performance
- Epidemiology of noble pen shell (Pinna nobilis L. 1758) mass mortality events in Adriatic Sea is characterized with rapid spreading and acute disease progression
- Ecologocial traits, genetic diversity and regional distribution of the macroalga Treptacantha elegans along the Catalan coast (NW Mediterranean Sea)
- The role of marine protected areas in sustaining fisheries: The case of the National Park of Banc d’Arguin, Mauritania
- Reteporella spp. success in the re-colonization of bare coralligenous reefs impacted by Costa Concordia shipwreck: The pioneer species you did not expect