Crossing the divide: The challenges of designing an ecologically coherent and representative network of MPAs for the UK

P.J.S. Jones and A. Carpenter

Marine Policy, 2009, vol. 33, issue 5, 737-743

Abstract: Against a background of international commitments to establish ecologically coherent and representative MPA networks, and the UK Marine Bill which aims to implement these commitments, the larval dispersal potential of 31 rare/scare benthic invertebrates is investigated and it is found that over half have a low dispersal potential (

Keywords: Ecologically; coherent; Representative; Marine; protected; area; Network; design; Larval; dispersal; OSPAR (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2009
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