Pristine Seas
Scientific Research
We publish our research results in reports to governments and peer-reviewed scientific journals in order to help make the case for marine reserves.
- Co-operation between large-scale MPAs: successful experiences from the Pacific Ocean
- Global patterns and predictors of tropical reef fish species richness
- Effects of gear restriction on the abundance of juvenile fishes along sandy beaches in Hawaii
- L’atoll de Clipperton (Le de la Passion): Biodiversit, menaces, et recommandations pour sa conservation
- First Records of Striped Boarfish Evistias acutirostris and Ornate Butterflyfish Chaetodon ornatissimus from Easter Island
- Marine reserves lag behind wilderness in the conservation of key functional roles
- The structure of Mediterranean rocky reef ecosystems across environmental and human gradients, and conservation implications
- So long and thanks for all the fish: overexploitation of the regionally endemic Galapagos Grouper Mycteroperca olfax (Jenyns, 1840)
- Energetic and ecological constraints on population density of reef fishes
- Determining the influence of seascape structure on coral reef fishes in Hawaii using a geospatial approach
- Franz Josef Land: extreme northern outpost for Arctic fishes
- Climate change, coral reef ecosystems, and management options for marine protected areas
- US Coral Reefs in the Line and Phoenix Islands, Central Pacific Ocean. 1: History, Geology, Oceanography, and Biology
- Metagenomic and satellite analyses of red snow in the Russian Arctic
- Ocean calamities: Hyped litany or legitimate concern?
- Humans and seasonal climate variability threaten large-bodied coral reef fish with small ranges
- Scaling metabolism from individuals to reef-fish communities at broad spatial scales
- The Real Bounty: Marine Biodiversity in the Pitcairn Islands
- Coexistence of Low Coral Cover and High Fish Biomass at Farquhar Atoll, Seychelles
- Winners and losers in a world where the high seas is closed to fishing
- Remote reefs and seamounts are the last refuges for marine predators across the Indo-Pacific
- Global assessment of the status of coral reef herbivorous fishes: evidence for fishing effects
- Functional over-redundancy and high functional vulnerability in global fish faunas of tropical reefs
- Small islands, valuable insights: systems of customary resource management and resilience in the Pacific
- Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health of the Aldabra Group, Southern Seychelles
- Exploring the Marine Ecosystems of Niue Island and Beveridge Reef
- How far has our baseline shifted? Archaeological evidence that pristine reefs are good proxy targets for modern fish populations
- Assemblage structure and spatial diversity patterns of kelp forest-associated fishes in Southern Patagonia
- Global Biogeography of Reef Fishes: A Hierarchical Quantitative Delineation of Regions
- Customary Marine Resource Knowledge and Use in Contemporary Hawaii
- One size does not fit all: The emerging frontier in large-scale marine conservation
- Assessing the relative importance of fishing impacts on Hawaiian coral reef fish assemblages along regional-scale human population gradients
- Distribution, size frequency, and sex ratios of blacktip reef sharks, Carcharhinus melanopterus, at Palmyra Atoll: a predator-dominated ecosystem
- Biodiversity and ecosystem functioning: an ecosystem-level approach
- Wave energy as a predictor of coral reef benthic communities in the absence of local human impacts
- Deepwater fish assemblages at Isla del Coco National Park and Las Gemelas Seamount, Costa Rica
- Assessing real progress towards effective ocean protection
- The economics of fishing the high seas
- Cabo de Hornos y Diego Ramírez: Biodiversidad y propuesta de conservación
- Integration of remote sensing and in situ ecology for the design and evaluation of marine protected areas: examples from tropical and temperate ecosystems
- Predator-induced demographic shifts in coral reef fish assemblages
- Black reefs: iron-induced phase shifts on coral reefs
- Quantifying seascape structure: extending terrestrial spatial pattern metrics to the marine realm
- Global human footprint on the linkage between biodiversity and ecosystem functioning in reef fishes
- Networks The assessment of marine reserve networks: Guidelines for ecological evaluation
- No-take marine reserves are the most effective protected areas in the ocean
- An Introduction to the MPA Guide
- Natural History of the Lagoon at Caroline/Millennium Atoll, Republic of Kiribati
- Long-term monitoring of habitats and reef fish found inside and outside the US Virgin Islands Coral Reef
- Longterm movement patterns and trophic ecology of blacktip reef sharks (Carcharhinus melanopterus) at Palmyra Atoll
- Marine Biodiversity and Protected Areas in Palau: Scientific report to the government of the Republic of Palau
- Marine Biodiversity and Ecosystem Health of Ilhas Selvagens, Portugal
- Marine Biodiversity in Inhambane Province Mozambique
- Influences of wind-wave exposure on the distribution and density of recruit reef fishes at Kure and Pearl & Hermes atolls, Northwestern Hawaiian Islands
- Scale dependent effects of habitat on movements and foraging strategies of blacktip reef sharks, Carcharhinus melanopterus, at Palmyra atoll: a predator dominated ecosystem
- Recent region-wide declines in Caribbean reef fish abundance
- Differences in fish-assemblage structure between fished and unfished atolls in the northern Line Islands, central Pacific
- Microbial ecology of four coral atolls in the Northern Line Islands
- US Coral Reefs in the Line and Phoenix Islands, Central Pacific Ocean: Status, Threats and Significance
- First quantification of subtidal community structure at Tristan da Cunha Islands in the remote South Atlantic: From kelp forests to the deep sea
- Marine biodiversity at the end of the world: Cape Horn and Diego Ramirez Islands
- Size, age, and habitat determine effectiveness of Palaus marine protected areas
- Coral reef grazer-benthos dynamics complicated by invasive algae in a small marine reserve
- A general business model for marine reserves
- An Ecological Correction to Marine Reserve Boundaries in the US Virgin Islands
- Participatory fishery monitoring is successful for understanding the reproductive biology needed for local fisheries management
- The codevelopment of coastal fisheriesmonitoring methods to support local management
- Empirical relationships among resilience indicators on Micronesian reefs
- Movement patterns of reef predators in a small isolated Marine Protected Area with implications for resource management
- Archipiélago de Juan Fernández: Biodiversidad marina y necesidades de conservación
- Largest global shark biomass found in the northern Galpagos Islands of Darwin and Wolf
- Reproductive life history of the introduced peacock grouper Cephalopholis argus in Hawaii
- The structure and diversity of freshwater diatom assemblages from Franz Josef Land Archipelago: a northern outpost for freshwater diatoms
- Marine Biodiversity in Juan Fernndez and Desventuradas Islands, Chile: Global Endemism Hotspots
- Drivers of fishing at the household scale in Fiji
- Improved estimates of age, growth and reproduction for the regionally endemic Galapagos sailfin grouper Mycteroperca olfax (Jenyns, 1840)
- From Reef to Table: Social and Ecological Factors Affecting Coral Reef Fisheries, Artisanal Seafood Supply Chains, and Seafood Security
- Marine Biodiversity and Protected Areas in Palau: Scientific report to the government of the Republic of Palau
- Arctic warming: nonlinear impacts of seaice and glacier melt on seabird foraging
- Understanding the scale of marine protection in Hawaii: from community-based management to the remote northwestern Hawaiian Islands Marine National Monument
- A linked land-sea modeling framework to inform ridge-to-reef management in high oceanic islands
- Marine Communities on Oil Platforms in Gabon, West Africa: High Biodiversity Oases in a Low Biodiversity Environment
- Summary of South American records of the smalltooth sand tiger shark Odontaspis ferox (Chondrichthyes: Odontaspidae), with the first record from Chilean waters
- Fish with Chips: Tracking Reef Fish Movements to Evaluate Size and Connectivity of Caribbean Marine Protected Areas
- The origins of ambient biological sound from coral reef ecosystems in the Line Islands archipelago
- Tracking the global footprint of fisheries
- From principles to practice: a spatial approach to systematic conservation planning in the deep sea
- Effects of isolation and fishing on the marine ecosystems of Easter and Salas y G_mez islands, Chile
- The shallow-water fish assemblage of Isla del Coco National Park, Costa Rica: structure and patterns in an isolated, predator-dominated ecosystem
- A seascape approach to investigating fish spillover across a marine protected area boundary in Hawaii
- Predator biomass, prey density, and species composition effects on group size in recruit coral reef fishes
- Spatial and temporal characteristics of grouper aggregations in marine protected areas in Palau, western Micronesia
- The spatial expansion and ecological footprint of fisheries (1950 to present)
- Spatial patterns of the structure of reef fish assemblages at a pristine atoll in the central Pacific
- Using bathymetric LIDAR data to measure benthic habitat complexity associated with coral reef fishes
- Unexpected high vulnerability of functions in wilderness areas: evidence from coral reef fishes
- Baselines and degradation of coral reefs in the northern Line Islands
- Fish banks: An economic model to scale marine conservation
- Near-island biological hotspots in barren ocean basins
- Re-evaluating the health of coral reef communities: baselines and evidence for human impacts across the central Pacific
- Recovery potential of the worlds coral reef fishes
- Marine protected area networks: assessing whether the whole is greater than the sum of its parts.
- Global mismatch between species richness and vulnerability of reef fish assemblages
- The coupling of St. John, US Virgin Islands marine protected areas based on reef fish habitat affinities and movements across management boundaries
- Pristine Mer de Corail: Les recifs eliognes de nouvelle-caledonie
- Effects of herbivores, wave exposure and depth on benthic coral communities of the Easter Island ecoregion
- Addressing Criticisms of Large-Scale Marine Protected Areas
- Advancing the integration of spatial data to map human and natural drivers on coral reefs
- Juvenile fish assemblages in temperate rocky reefs are shaped by the presence of macro-algae canopy and its three-dimensional structure
- Recent shallow water foraminifera from the Selvagens Islands (Northeast Atlantic) – Assemblage composition and biogeographic significance
- Re-shifting the ecological baseline for the overexploited Mediterranean red coral
- Ecological effects of full and partial protection in the crowded Mediterranean Sea: a regional meta-analysis
- L’atoll de Clipperton (Île de la Passion): Biodiversité, menaces, et recommandations pour sa conservation
- Islas Desventuradas: Biodiversidad marina y propuesta de conservación
- Ecosystem Assessment of the Tristan da Cunha Islands
- Expedición a Isla de Pascua y Sala y Gómez: Informe Científico
- Economic Valuation of Marine and Shark-Based Tourism in the Galápagos Islands
- Bright spots among the worlds coral reefs
- Social–environmental drivers inform strategic management of coral reefs in the Anthropocene
- Protecting the global ocean for biodiversity, food and climate
- Nearshore marine biodiversity of Osa Peninsula, Costa Rica: Where the ocean meets the rainforest
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