Coral Reefs and the Global Network of Marine Protected Areas

Camilo Mora; Serge Andrèfouët; Mark J. Costello; Christine Kranenburg; Audrey Rollo; John Veron; Kevin J. Gaston; Ransom A. Myers

doi:10.1126/science.1125295

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Coral Reefs and the Global Network of Marine Protected Areas

Camilo Mora¹,²,*,
Serge Andrèfouët³,
Mark J. Costello¹,
Christine Kranenburg⁴,
Audrey Rollo¹,
John Veron⁵,
Kevin J. Gaston⁶,
Ransom A. Myers²

¹Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, Post Office Box 349, Warkworth, New Zealand.
²Department of Biological Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H 4J1.
³Institut de Recherche pour le Dèveloppement, Boite postale A5-98848, Noumea cedex, New Caledonia.
⁴Institute for Marine Remote Sensing, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA.
⁵Australian Institute of Marine Sciences, Townsville 4810, Australia.
⁶Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.

↵*Author for correspondence. E-mail: moracamilo{at}hotmail.com

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Science 23 Jun 2006:
Vol. 312, Issue 5781, pp. 1750-1751
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125295

Camilo Mora

1Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, Post Office Box 349, Warkworth, New Zealand.

2Department of Biological Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H 4J1.

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For correspondence: moracamilo@hotmail.com

Serge Andrèfouët

3Institut de Recherche pour le Dèveloppement, Boite postale A5-98848, Noumea cedex, New Caledonia.

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Mark J. Costello

1Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, Post Office Box 349, Warkworth, New Zealand.

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Christine Kranenburg

4Institute for Marine Remote Sensing, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA.

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Audrey Rollo

1Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, Post Office Box 349, Warkworth, New Zealand.

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John Veron

5Australian Institute of Marine Sciences, Townsville 4810, Australia.

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Kevin J. Gaston

6Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.

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Ransom A. Myers

2Department of Biological Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H 4J1.

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Existing marine reserves are largely ineffective and as a whole remain insufficient for the protection of coral reef diversity.

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