A review of a decade of lessons from one of the world’s largest MPAs: conservation gains and key challenges

Teleconnections reveal that drivers of inter-annual growth can vary from local to ocean basin scales in tropical snappers

(2020) Brett M. Taylor et al.   CORAL REEFS

Individual and Population Benefits of Marine Reserves for Reef Sharks

(2020) Ross G. Dwyer et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Estimates of marine turtle nesting populations in the south-west Indian Ocean indicate the importance of the Chagos Archipelago

(2020) Jeanne A. Mortimer et al.   ORYX

Nitrogen pollution interacts with heat stress to increase coral bleaching across the seascape

(2020) Mary K. Donovan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Ocean sentinel albatrosses locate illegal vessels and provide the first estimate of the extent of nondeclared fishing

(2020) Henri Weimerskirch et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Shark movement strategies influence poaching risk and can guide enforcement decisions in a large, remote Marine Protected Area

(2020) David M.P. Jacoby et al.   JOURNAL OF APPLIED ECOLOGY

Individual variation in residency and regional movements of reef manta rays Mobula alfredi in a large marine protected area

(2020) S Andrzejaczek et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Coral mass mortalities in the Chagos Archipelago over 40 years: Regional species and assemblage extinctions and indications of positive feedbacks

(2020) Charles Sheppard et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Rebuilding marine life

(2020) Carlos M. Duarte et al.   NATURE

Options for managing human threats to high seas biodiversity

(2020) Bethan C. O'Leary et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

A quick, easy and non‐invasive method to quantify coral growth rates using photogrammetry and 3D model comparisons

(2020) Ines D. Lange et al.   Methods in Ecology and Evolution

Biodiversity increases ecosystem functions despite multiple stressors on coral reefs

(2020) Cassandra E. Benkwitt et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Status and phenology of breeding seabirds and a review of Important Bird and Biodiversity Areas in the British Indian Ocean Territory

(2020) PETER CARR et al.   BIRD CONSERVATION INTERNATIONAL

Open Ocean Reorientation and Challenges of Island Finding by Sea Turtles during Long-Distance Migration

(2020) Graeme C. Hays et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Illuminating dark fishing fleets in North Korea

(2020) Jaeyoon Park et al.   Science Advances

Interactions Between a Large Marine Protected Area, Pelagic Tuna and Associated Fisheries

(2020) David J. Curnick et al.   Frontiers in Marine Science

Climate Change, Coral Loss, and the Curious Case of the Parrotfish Paradigm: Why Don't Marine Protected Areas Improve Reef Resilience?

(2019) John F. Bruno et al.   Annual Review of Marine Science

Translating Marine Animal Tracking Data into Conservation Policy and Management

(2019) Graeme C. Hays et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Internal lee waves and baroclinic bores over a tropical seamount shark ‘hot-spot’

(2019) P.J. Hosegood et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

Evidence for dynamic resource partitioning between two sympatric reef shark species within the British Indian Ocean Territory

(2019) D. J. Curnick et al.   JOURNAL OF FISH BIOLOGY

Bleaching impacts on carbonate production in the Chagos Archipelago: influence of functional coral groups on carbonate budget trajectories

(2019) Ines D. Lange et al.   CORAL REEFS

Complex transboundary movements of marine megafauna in the Western Indian Ocean

(2019) A. N. Barkley et al.   ANIMAL CONSERVATION

Water quality mediates resilience on the Great Barrier Reef

(2019) M. Aaron MacNeil et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Atmospheric Nitrogen Deposition Increases the Possibility of Macroalgal Dominance on Remote Coral Reefs

(2019) Xiaoyan Chen et al.   Journal of Geophysical Research-Biogeosciences

Coral bleaching impacts from back-to-back 2015–2016 thermal anomalies in the remote central Indian Ocean

(2019) Catherine E. I. Head et al.   CORAL REEFS

Seabird nutrient subsidies alter patterns of algal abundance and fish biomass on coral reefs following a bleaching event

(2019) Cassandra E. Benkwitt et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

Nitrogen enrichment, altered stoichiometry, and coral reef decline at Looe Key, Florida Keys, USA: a 3-decade study

(2019) Brian E. Lapointe et al.   MARINE BIOLOGY

Global spatial risk assessment of sharks under the footprint of fisheries

(2019) Nuno Queiroz et al.   NATURE

Using historical fisheries data to predict tuna distribution within the British Indian Ocean Territory Marine Protected Area, and implications for its management

(2019) Nicholas Dunn et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Climate resilience in marine protected areas and the ‘Protection Paradox’

(2019) Amanda E. Bates et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Nitrogen Identity Drives Differential Impacts of Nutrients on Coral Bleaching and Mortality

(2019) Deron E. Burkepile et al.   ECOSYSTEMS

Demographic plasticity facilitates ecological and economic resilience in a commercially important reef fish

(2019) Brett M. Taylor et al.   JOURNAL OF ANIMAL ECOLOGY

A rising tide: California's ongoing commitment to monitoring, managing and enforcing its marine protected areas

(2019) Samantha Murray et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

A bold successor to Aichi Target 11—Response

(2019) Piero Visconti et al.   SCIENCE

Remote reefs and seamounts are the last refuges for marine predators across the Indo-Pacific

(2019) Tom B. Letessier et al.   PLOS BIOLOGY

Drones for research on sea turtles and other marine vertebrates – A review

(2019) Gail Schofield et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Ecological redundancy between coral reef sharks and predatory teleosts

(2019) Shanta C. Barley et al.   REVIEWS IN FISH BIOLOGY AND FISHERIES

Synchronous biological feedbacks in parrotfishes associated with pantropical coral bleaching

(2019) Brett M. Taylor et al.   GLOBAL CHANGE BIOLOGY

The paradox of sustainable tuna fisheries in the Western Indian Ocean: between visions of blue economy and realities of accumulation

(2019) Mialy Andriamahefazafy et al.   Sustainability Science

Residency and reproductive status of yellowfin tuna in a proposed large-scale pelagic marine protected area

(2018) Andrew J. Richardson et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

First record of coralline fungal disease (CFD) in the Indian Ocean

(2018) G. J. Williams et al.   CORAL REEFS

On the prevalence and dynamics of inverted trophic pyramids and otherwise top-heavy communities

(2018) Douglas J. McCauley et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

The discovery of deep-water seagrass meadows in a pristine Indian Ocean wilderness revealed by tracking green turtles

(2018) N. Esteban et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Gravity of human impacts mediates coral reef conservation gains

(2018) Joshua E. Cinner et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Mobile marine predators: an understudied source of nutrients to coral reefs in an unfished atoll

(2018) Jessica J. Williams et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Tracking the global footprint of fisheries

(2018) David A. Kroodsma et al.   SCIENCE

A unifying theory for top-heavy ecosystem structure in the ocean

(2018) C. Brock Woodson et al.   Nature Communications

Shark baselines and the conservation role of remote coral reef ecosystems

(2018) Francesco Ferretti et al.   Science Advances

Exceptional biodiversity of the cryptofaunal decapods in the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean

(2018) Catherine E.I. Head et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Loss of coral reef growth capacity to track future increases in sea level

(2018) Chris T. Perry et al.   NATURE

Seabirds enhance coral reef productivity and functioning in the absence of invasive rats

(2018) Nicholas A. J. Graham et al.   NATURE

Ruler of the atoll: the world's largest land invertebrate

(2017) Mark E Laidre   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

Deep thinking: a systematic review of mesophotic coral ecosystems

(2017) Joseph A. Turner et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Species diversity, abundance, biomass, size and trophic structure of fish on coral reefs in relation to shark abundance

(2017) SC Barley et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Interactions of tuna fisheries with the Galápagos marine reserve

(2017) K Boerder et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Drivers of abundance and spatial distribution of reef-associated sharks in an isolated atoll reef system

(2017) David M. Tickler et al.   PLoS One

Marine reserves can mitigate and promote adaptation to climate change

(2017) Callum M. Roberts et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Species diversity, abundance, biomass, size and trophic structure of fish on coral reefs in relation to shark abundance

(2017) SC Barley et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Interactions of tuna fisheries with the Galápagos marine reserve

(2017) K Boerder et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Marine protected areas increase resilience among coral reef communities

(2016) Camille Mellin et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

Enhanced pelagic biomass around coral atolls

(2016) TB Letessier et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Bright spots among the world’s coral reefs

(2016) Joshua E. Cinner et al.   NATURE

Modeling Reef Fish Biomass, Recovery Potential, and Management Priorities in the Western Indian Ocean

(2016) Timothy R. McClanahan et al.   PLoS One

Unexpected high vulnerability of functions in wilderness areas: evidence from coral reef fishes

(2016) Stéphanie D'agata et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Emerging Network-Based Tools in Movement Ecology

(2016) David M.P. Jacoby et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Effective Coverage Targets for Ocean Protection

(2016) Bethan C. O'Leary et al.   Conservation Letters

Male hatchling production in sea turtles from one of the world’s largest marine protected areas, the Chagos Archipelago

(2016) Nicole Esteban et al.   Scientific Reports

Enhanced pelagic biomass around coral atolls

(2016) TB Letessier et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Limited phosphorus availability is the Achilles heel of tropical reef corals in a warming ocean

(2016) Leïla Ezzat et al.   Scientific Reports

Local-scale projections of coral reef futures and implications of the Paris Agreement

(2016) Ruben van Hooidonk et al.   Scientific Reports

Local fishing influences coral reef fish behavior inside protected areas of the Indo-Pacific

(2015) Fraser A. Januchowski-Hartley et al.   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

High prevalence of obligate coral-dwelling decapods on dead corals in the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean

(2015) Catherine E. I. Head et al.   CORAL REEFS

Through bleaching and tsunami: Coral reef recovery in the Maldives

(2015) Carla Morri et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Recovery potential of the world's coral reef fishes

(2015) M. Aaron MacNeil et al.   NATURE

Predicting climate-driven regime shifts versus rebound potential in coral reefs

(2015) Nicholas A. J. Graham et al.   NATURE

Marine reserve recovery rates towards a baseline are slower for reef fish community life histories than biomass

(2015) T. R. McClanahan et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Making waves: The science and politics of ocean protection

(2015) J. Lubchenco et al.   SCIENCE

Marine defaunation: Animal loss in the global ocean

(2015) D. J. McCauley et al.   SCIENCE

Toward a Social Science Research Agenda for Large Marine Protected Areas

(2015) Rebecca L. Gruby et al.   Conservation Letters

Winners and losers in a world where the high seas is closed to fishing

(2015) U. Rashid Sumaila et al.   Scientific Reports

Remote coral reefs can sustain high growth potential and may match future sea-level trends

(2015) Chris T. Perry et al.   Scientific Reports

Scleractinian coral communities of the inner Seychelles 10 years after the 1998 mortality event

(2014) Alasdair Harris et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Reinventing residual reserves in the sea: are we favouring ease of establishment over need for protection?

(2014) Rodolphe Devillers et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Fifty years on: Lessons from marine reserves in New Zealand and principles for a worldwide network

(2014) Bill Ballantine   BIOLOGICAL CONSERVATION

Larval dispersal and movement patterns of coral reef fishes, and implications for marine reserve network design

(2014) Alison L. Green et al.   BIOLOGICAL REVIEWS

Biomass-based targets and the management of multispecies coral reef fisheries

(2014) T. R. McClanahan et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Bottlenecks to coral recovery in the Seychelles

(2014) K. M. Chong-Seng et al.   CORAL REEFS

Do no-take reserves benefit Florida’s corals? 14 years of change and stasis in the Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary

(2014) L. T. Toth et al.   CORAL REEFS

Context-dependent effects of nutrient loading on the coral–algal mutualism

(2014) Andrew A. Shantz et al.   ECOLOGY

Biomass consumption by breeding seabirds in the western Indian Ocean: indirect interactions with fisheries and implications for management

(2014) D. K. Danckwerts et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features

(2014) Graham J. Edgar et al.   NATURE

Impacts of nutrient enrichment on coral reefs: new perspectives and implications for coastal management and reef survival

(2014) Cecilia D’Angelo et al.   Current Opinion in Environmental Sustainability

The Last Call for Marine Wilderness?

(2013) Nicholas A. J. Graham et al.   BIOSCIENCE

Global patterns for upper ceilings on migration distance in sea turtles and comparisons with fish, birds and mammals

(2013) Graeme C. Hays et al.   FUNCTIONAL ECOLOGY

Sizing up the ecological role of sharks as predators

(2013) MR Heupel et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Space Partitioning Without Territoriality in Gannets

(2013) E. D. Wakefield et al.   SCIENCE

Reefs and islands of the Chagos Archipelago, Indian Ocean: why it is the world's largest no-take marine protected area

(2012) C. R. C. Sheppard et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Larval Export from Marine Reserves and the Recruitment Benefit for Fish and Fisheries

(2012) Hugo B. Harrison et al.   CURRENT BIOLOGY

Assessing the effects of large mobile predators on ecosystem connectivity

(2012) Douglas J. McCauley et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Nutrient enrichment can increase the susceptibility of reef corals to bleaching

(2012) Jörg Wiedenmann et al.   Nature Climate Change

Reef shark declines in remote atolls highlight the need for multi-faceted conservation action

(2010) Nicholas A. J. Graham et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

Potential benefits to fisheries and biodiversity of the Chagos Archipelago/British Indian Ocean Territory as a no-take marine reserve

(2010) Heather J. Koldewey et al.   MARINE POLLUTION BULLETIN

Multi-decadal oceanic ecological datasets and their application in marine policy and management

(2010) Martin Edwards et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Reef-associated crustacean fauna: biodiversity estimates using semi-quantitative sampling and DNA barcoding

(2009) L. Plaisance et al.   CORAL REEFS

Diurnal, land-based predation on shore crabs by moray eels in the Chagos Archipelago

(2009) N. A. J. Graham et al.   CORAL REEFS

Improved water quality can ameliorate effects of climate change on corals

(2009) Scott A. Wooldridge et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Biological effects within no-take marine reserves: a global synthesis

(2009) SE Lester et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Net contribution of spillover from a marine reserve to fishery catches

(2009) R Goñi et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES

Archipelago-wide coral recovery patterns since 1998 in the Chagos Archipelago, central Indian Ocean

(2008) CRC Sheppard et al.   MARINE ECOLOGY PROGRESS SERIES