Assessing the management effectiveness of China's marine protected areas: Challenges and recommendations

China’s little-known efforts to protect its marine ecosystems safeguard some habitats but omit others

(2021) John J. Bohorquez et al.   Science Advances

Meeting fisheries, ecosystem function, and biodiversity goals in a human-dominated world

(2020) Joshua E. Cinner et al.   SCIENCE

Sustainability Evaluation of Marine Protected Areas Index (SEMPAI): A multi-criteria decision-making method to determine the effectiveness of the El Nido-Taytay Managed Resource Protected Area

(2019) John Erick Avelino et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Marine protected areas in southern China: Upgrading conservation effectiveness in the ‘eco‐civilization’ era

(2019) Laurence J. McCook et al.   AQUATIC CONSERVATION-MARINE AND FRESHWATER ECOSYSTEMS

A user-friendly tool to evaluate the effectiveness of no-take marine reserves

(2018) Juan Carlos Villaseñor-Derbez et al.   PLoS One

Social and ecological effectiveness of large marine protected areas

(2017) Natalie C. Ban et al.   GLOBAL ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE-HUMAN AND POLICY DIMENSIONS

Capacity shortfalls hinder the performance of marine protected areas globally

(2017) David A. Gill et al.   NATURE

Development of an environmental performance indicator framework to evaluate management effectiveness for Jiaozhou Bay Coastal Wetland Special Marine Protected Area, Qingdao, China

(2017) Wen Wu et al.   OCEAN & COASTAL MANAGEMENT

Are we missing the boat? Current uses of long-term biological monitoring data in the evaluation and management of marine protected areas

(2015) P.F.E. Addison et al.   JOURNAL OF ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Making marine protected areas work

(2014) Benjamin S. Halpern   NATURE

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

(2014) Graham J. Edgar et al.   NATURE

Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) Special Feature: Editorial

(2011) Andy Thorpe et al.   ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT

Reexamining the science of marine protected areas: linking knowledge to action

(2011) Helen E. Fox et al.   Conservation Letters

Impacts of Marine Protected Areas on Fishing Communities

(2010) MICHAEL B. MASCIA et al.   CONSERVATION BIOLOGY

Marine reserves: Fish life history and ecological traits matter

(2010) J. Claudet et al.   ECOLOGICAL APPLICATIONS

Designing marine reserve networks for both conservation and fisheries management

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

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

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

The Ecological Performance of Protected Areas

(2008) Kevin J. Gaston et al.   Annual Review of Ecology Evolution and Systematics