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Science 23 June 2006:
Vol. 312. no. 5781, pp. 1750 - 1751
DOI: 10.1126/science.1125295

Policy Forum

ECOLOGY:
Enhanced: Coral Reefs and the Global Network of Marine Protected Areas

Camilo Mora,1,2,* Serge Andrèfouët,3 Mark J. Costello,1 Christine Kranenburg,4 Audrey Rollo,1 John Veron,5 Kevin J. Gaston,6 Ransom A. Myers2

Existing marine reserves are largely ineffective and as a whole remain insufficient for the protection of coral reef diversity.


1Leigh Marine Laboratory, University of Auckland, Post Office Box 349, Warkworth, New Zealand. 2Department of Biological Sciences, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, B3H 4J1. 3Institut de Recherche pour le Dèveloppement, Boite postale A5-98848, Noumea cedex, New Caledonia. 4Institute for Marine Remote Sensing, University of South Florida, St. Petersburg, FL 33701, USA. 5Australian Institute of Marine Sciences, Townsville 4810, Australia. 6Biodiversity and Macroecology Group, Department of Animal and Plant Sciences, University of Sheffield, Sheffield, S10 2TN, UK.

*Author for correspondence. E-mail: moracamilo{at}hotmail.com

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