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Sarah E. Lester

• Communicating marine reserve science to diverse audiences

  As human impacts cause ecosystem-wide changes in the oceans, the need to protect and restore marine resources has led to increasing calls for and establishment of marine reserves. Scientific information about marine reserves has multiplied over the last decade, providing useful knowledge about this tool for resource users, managers, policy makers, and the general public.

  • 26/10/2010

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • • Marine Ecosystems
    • Marine Research
    • Protected Area Conservation
    • California
    • Information
    • Biodiversity

• Placing marine protected areas onto the ecosystem-based management seascape

  The rapid increase in the science and implementation of marine protected areas (MPAs) around the world in the past 15 years is now being followed by similar increases in the science and application of marine ecosystem-based management (EBM).

  • 22/02/2010

  • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
  • • Environment
    • Ecosystem Services
    • Marine Fisheries
    • Protected Area Conservation
    • Benjamin S. Halpern
    • Global
    • Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences
    • Sarah E. Lester
    • Karen L. McLeod
    • Marine Ecosystems