Conservation planning for turtles, larvae, climate change and more!
Multinational conservation initiatives that prioritize investment across a region invariably navigate trade-offs among multiple objectives.
It seems logical to focus where several objectives can be achieved efficiently, but such multi-objective hotspots may be ecologically inappropriate, or politically inequitable. Here we devise a framework to facilitate a regionally cohesive set of marine-protected areas driven by national preferences and supported by quantitative conservation prioritization analyses, and illustrate it using the Coral Triangle Initiative….