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Echinoderms piggybacking on sea cucumbers: Benign effects on sediment turnover and movement of hosts
Type: Journal Article
Sea cucumbers (Holothuroidea) are known to host ectocommensal animals but echinoderm epibionts have never been reported nor their effects on hosts appraised quantitatively. At one location in New Caledonia, we found a high ...
Recognising land rights for conservation? tenure reforms in the Northern Sierra Madre, The Philippines
Type: Journal Article
The legalisation of the customary land rights of rural communities is currently actively promoted as a strategy for conserving biodiversity. There is, however, little empirical information on the conservation outcomes of ...
Marine Protected Areas in the Coral Triangle: Progress, Issues, and Option
Type: Journal Article
The six Coral Triangle countries-Indonesia, Malaysia, Papua New Guinea, Philippines, Solomon Islands, and Timor-Leste-each have evolving systems of marine protected areas (MPAs) at the national and local levels. More than ...
Understanding leadership in the environmental sciences
Type: Journal Article
Leadership is often assumed, intuitively, to be an important driver of sustainable development. To understand how leadership is conceptualized and analyzed in the environmental sciences and to discover what this research ...
Do non-users value coral reefs?: Economic valuation of conserving Tubbataha Reefs, Philippines
Type: Journal Article
The main purpose of the study is to determine whether non-use values exist among residents of Quezon City, hundreds of kilometers away from Tubbataha Reefs. The dichotomous choice contingent valuation method (CVM) was ...
Fish, trade and food security: Moving beyond 'availability' discourse in marine conservation
Type: Journal Article
The goal of food security increasingly serves as an objective and justification for marine conservation in the global south. In the marine conservation literature this potential link is seldom based upon detailed analysis ...
Spatial Data Quality Control for the Coral Triangle Atlas
Type: Journal Article
The Coral Triangle is a global priority for conservation and since the creation of the Coral Triangle Initiative in 2007 it has been a major focus for a multi-lateral conservation partnership uniting the regions six ...
Linking regional planning and local action: Towards using social network analysis in systematic conservation planning
Type: Journal Article
Social networks play an important role in facilitating effective and sustained connections between people responsible for regional conservation plans and those responsible for local conservation actions. Yet, few studies ...
Reduction in effort and favorable environment helped to increase shrimp catch in Kuwait
Type: Journal Article
The 1988-1989 shrimp catch from kuwait waters was 5125 t, representing a 62% increase above the previous record of 3158 t in 1966-1967. Ninety-eight per cent of the record landing was comprised of Penaeus semisulcatus ...
The Coral Triangle Atlas: An integrated online spatial database system for improving coral reef management
Type: Journal Article
In this paper we describe the construction of an online GIS database system, hosted by WorldFish, which stores bio-physical, ecological and socio-economic data for the 'Coral Triangle Area' in South-east Asia and the ...