Protection enhances community and habitat stability: evidence from a mediterranean marine protected area.

Rare evidences support that Marine Protected Areas (MPAs) enhance the stability of marine habitats and assemblages. Based on nine years of observation (2001-2009) inside and outside a well managed MPA, we assessed the potential of conservation and management actions to modify patterns of spatial and...

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Main Authors: Simonetta Fraschetti, Giuseppe Guarnieri, Stanislao Bevilacqua, Antonio Terlizzi, Ferdinando Boero
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Public Library of Science (PLoS) 2013-01-01
Series:PLoS ONE
Online Access:http://europepmc.org/articles/PMC3859515?pdf=render