What is it about?
The paper describes how long it may really take for fish to recover from years of fishing. It looks at life history characteristics and not just the biomass or abundance of fish and shows that biomass underestimates the time to recovery.
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Why is it important?
It shows the importance of marine wilderness for protecting intact coral reef ecosystems and the slow responses of the species organization after fishing disturbances.
Perspectives
It took years of work, travel, and visiting most of the protected areas in the Indian Ocean to complete this work. Consequently, it is the completion of a life goal to evaluate the impacts of fishing on coral reefs and what can be done to protect them from unsustainable use.
Dr TIm Rice McClanahan
Wildlife Conservation Society
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This page is a summary of: Marine reserve recovery rates towards a baseline are slower for reef fish community life histories than biomass, Proceedings of the Royal Society B Biological Sciences, December 2015, Royal Society Publishing,
DOI: 10.1098/rspb.2015.1938.
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