ArticleNature communications2024
Marine protected areas promote stability of reef fish communities under climate warming.
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- The planktonic microbiome of the Great Barrier Reef.Nature · 2026Article
- Marine Heatwaves Overwhelm the Buffering Benefits of Marine Protected Areas: Two Decades of Collapse in a Mediterranean Gorgonian.Global change biology · 2026Article
- Biodiversity and habitat complexity buffer the destabilizing effects of anthropogenic activities on riverine fish communities.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Impacts of local anthropogenic stressors outpace those of climate on coral reef collapse in the northern South China Sea.Nature communications · 2026Article
- Counteracting Cascades Challenge the Heterogeneity-Stability Relationship.Ecology letters · 2025Article
- Habitat and local factors influence fish biomass recovery in marine protected areas.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Functional diversity shapes the stability of reef fish biomass under global change.Proceedings. Biological sciences · 2025Article
- Contrasting Population Trajectories of Temperate Reef Fishes and Invertebrates Following Seasonal and Multi-Decadal Temperature Change.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Global floating kelp forests have limited protection despite intensifying marine heatwave threats.Nature communications · 2025Article
- Multi-Species Telemetry Quantifies Current and Future Efficacy of a Remote Marine Protected Area.Global change biology · 2025Article
- Potential backfiring effects of Marine Protected Areas on kelp herbivory.Scientific reports · 2024Article
- Marine Protected Areas That Preserve Trophic Cascades Promote Resilience of Kelp Forests to Marine Heatwaves.Global change biology · 2024Article
- Marine protected areas promote stability of reef fish communities under climate warming.Nature communications · 2024Article
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Abstract
Protection from direct human impacts can safeguard marine life, yet ocean warming crosses marine protected area boundaries. Here, we test whether protection offers resilience to marine heatwaves from local to network scales. We examine 71,269 timeseries of population abundances for 2269 reef fish species surveyed in 357 protected versus 747 open sites worldwide. We quantify the stability of reef fish abundance from populations to metacommunities, considering responses of species and functional diversity including thermal affinity of different trophic groups. Overall, protection mitigates adverse effects of marine heatwaves on fish abundance, community stability, asynchronous fluctuations and functional richness. We find that local stability is positively related to distance from centers of high human density only in protected areas. We provide evidence that networks of protected areas have persistent reef fish communities in warming oceans by maintaining large populations and promoting stability at different levels of biological organization.
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