Conservation planning for turtles, larvae, climate change and more! New paper out in Nat Comm http://tinyurl.com/pkge72t

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. OLYMPUS DIGITAL CAMERA

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….

Infographic_how to build MPAs in CT_J McGowan

 

 

 

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