Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate

Climate change mitigation and nature conservation both require higher protected area targets

(2020) Callum M. Roberts et al.   PHILOSOPHICAL TRANSACTIONS OF THE ROYAL SOCIETY B-BIOLOGICAL SCIENCES

Impact of two of the world's largest protected areas on longline fishery catch rates

(2020) John Lynham et al.   Nature Communications

Prioritizing debt conversion opportunities for marine conservation

(2020) Jennifer McGowan et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Species better track climate warming in the oceans than on land

(2020) Jonathan Lenoir et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

Integrating climate change in ocean planning

(2020) Catarina Frazão Santos et al.   Nature Sustainability

The future of food from the sea

(2020) Christopher Costello et al.   NATURE

Persistent organic matter in oxic subseafloor sediment

(2019) Emily R. Estes et al.   Nature Geoscience

The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2 from 1994 to 2007

(2019) Nicolas Gruber et al.   SCIENCE

Quantifying biases in marine‐protected‐area placement relative to abatable threats

(2019) Caitlin D. Kuempel et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Recent pace of change in human impact on the world’s ocean

(2019) Benjamin S. Halpern et al.   Scientific Reports

Integrating climate adaptation and biodiversity conservation in the global ocean

(2019) Derek P. Tittensor et al.   Science Advances

How to pay for saving biodiversity

(2018) Edward B. Barbier et al.   SCIENCE

Tracking the global footprint of fisheries

(2018) David A. Kroodsma et al.   SCIENCE

Global priorities for conserving the evolutionary history of sharks, rays and chimaeras

(2018) R. William Stein et al.   Nature Ecology & Evolution

An inverse latitudinal gradient in speciation rate for marine fishes

(2018) Daniel L. Rabosky et al.   NATURE

Assessing the risk of carbon dioxide emissions from blue carbon ecosystems

(2017) Catherine E Lovelock et al.   FRONTIERS IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT

No-take marine reserves are the most effective protected areas in the ocean

(2017) Enric Sala et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

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

Global analysis of depletion and recovery of seabed biota after bottom trawling disturbance

(2017) Jan Geert Hiddink et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Natural climate solutions

(2017) Bronson W. Griscom et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Functional Rarity: The Ecology of Outliers

(2017) Cyrille Violle et al.   TRENDS IN ECOLOGY & EVOLUTION

Fishery consequences of marine reserves: short-term pain for longer-term gain

(2016) Jess K. Hopf et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Effects of model assumptions and data quality on spatial cumulative human impact assessments

(2016) Andy Stock et al.   GLOBAL ECOLOGY AND BIOGEOGRAPHY

What a drag: Quantifying the global impact of chronic bottom trawling on continental shelf sediment

(2016) Ferdinand K.J. Oberle et al.   JOURNAL OF MARINE SYSTEMS

Global fishery prospects under contrasting management regimes

(2016) Christopher Costello et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Effective Coverage Targets for Ocean Protection

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

Estimating seabed pressure from demersal trawls, seines, and dredges based on gear design and dimensions

(2015) Ole R. Eigaard et al.   ICES JOURNAL OF MARINE SCIENCE

Integrating regional conservation priorities for multiple objectives into national policy

(2015) Maria Beger et al.   Nature Communications

Spatial and temporal changes in cumulative human impacts on the world’s ocean

(2015) Benjamin S. Halpern et al.   Nature Communications

Recovery trajectories of kelp forest animals are rapid yet spatially variable across a network of temperate marine protected areas

(2015) Jennifer E. Caselle et al.   Scientific Reports

Inclusion of costs in conservation planning depends on limited datasets and hopeful assumptions

(2014) Paul R. Armsworth   Annals of the New York Academy of Sciences

Sediment diagenesis models: Review of approaches, challenges and opportunities

(2014) Daniel W. Paraska et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

Global protected area expansion is compromised by projected land-use and parochialism

(2014) Federico Montesino Pouzols et al.   NATURE

Global Priorities for Marine Biodiversity Conservation

(2014) Elizabeth R. Selig et al.   PLoS One

Chronic and intensive bottom trawling impairs deep-sea biodiversity and ecosystem functioning

(2014) A. Pusceddu et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Quantifying the degradation of organic matter in marine sediments: A review and synthesis

(2013) Sandra Arndt et al.   EARTH-SCIENCE REVIEWS

Methods and workflow for spatial conservation prioritization using Zonation

(2013) Joona Lehtomäki et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLING & SOFTWARE

The global diversity of birds in space and time

(2012) W. Jetz et al.   NATURE

Pelagic provinces of the world: A biogeographic classification of the world’s surface pelagic waters

(2012) Mark D. Spalding et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

A proposed biogeography of the deep ocean floor

(2012) Les Watling et al.   PROGRESS IN OCEANOGRAPHY

RCP 8.5—A scenario of comparatively high greenhouse gas emissions

(2011) Keywan Riahi et al.   CLIMATIC CHANGE

Spatial prioritization of conservation management

(2011) Atte Moilanen et al.   Conservation Letters

Conservation Planning when Costs Are Uncertain

(2010) JOSIE CARWARDINE et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Spillover from marine reserves and the replenishment of fished stocks

(2010) BENJAMIN S. HALPERN et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL CONSERVATION

On the use of abiotic surrogates to describe marine benthic biodiversity

(2010) M.A. McArthur et al.   ESTUARINE COASTAL AND SHELF SCIENCE

Global patterns and predictors of marine biodiversity across taxa

(2010) Derek P. Tittensor et al.   NATURE

A global seamount classification to aid the scientific design of marine protected area networks

(2010) Malcolm R. Clark et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Evolving science of marine reserves: New developments and emerging research frontiers

(2010) S. D. Gaines et al.   PROCEEDINGS OF THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA

Geographical variation in predictors of mammalian extinction risk: big is bad, but only in the tropics

(2009) Susanne A. Fritz et al.   ECOLOGY LETTERS

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

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

Impact of natural (waves and currents) and anthropogenic (trawl) resuspension on the export of particulate matter to the open ocean

(2008) B. Ferré et al.   CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH