Marine protected areas : tools for sustaining ocean ecosystems /
Although the ocean-and the resources within-seem limitless, there is clear evidence that human impacts such as overfishing, habitat destruction, and pollution disrupt marine ecosystems and threaten the long-term productivity of the seas. Declining yields in many fisheries and decay of treasured mari...
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Washington, D.C. :
National Academy Press,
©2001.
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Table des matières:
- Conservation goals
- Conventional management of marine fisheries
- Societal values of marine reserves and protected areas
- Empirical and modeling studies of marine reserves
- Design
- Monitoring, research, and modeling
- Historical background and evaluation of marine protected areas in the United States
- Conclusions and recommendations.