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Response to O'Leary et al.: Misuse of Models Leads to Misguided Conservation Recommendations

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CONSERVATION LETTERS
Volume 10, Issue 2, Pages 269-270

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WILEY
DOI: 10.1111/conl.12344

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Global conservation targets; marine protected areas; meta-analysis; models; model parameterization

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O'Leary et al. sought to evaluate the scientific basis for global targets for marine protected area (MPA) coverage (e.g., 10% of marine habitats) using a meta-analysis of published MPA modeling studies. Unfortunately, their approach was flawed in both methodology and philosophy, as we explain in this letter.

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