Coral Reef, Asia Pacific © Nancy Sefton

Welcome to the Resilient MPA Resources Workspace.  The space is designed to help facilitate the dissemination of MPA resources, primarily dealing with coral reefs and spawning aggregations.  Designed by employees from the Nature Conservancy’s Global Marine Initiative, this workspace provides resources useful to MPA practitioners and helps to facilitate discussions regarding these resources.  If you have documents and/or links you would like to contribute, please submit them.

MPA Resources

Websites

• Reef Resilience: Building resilience into coral reef conservation  http://www.reefsilience.org/
  ReefResilience is the place to find information about building resilience into your coral reef management strategies.  The R² Toolkit, first published in 2004, was designed primarily for use by Marine Protected Area (MPA) managers, trainers, and policymakers.
• NOAA: Coral Reef Conservation Program      http://www.coralreef.noaa.gov/

  Learn about funding opportunities, education and outreach material, and coral reef news.  You can also gain access to numerous publications and data via NOAA’s Coral Reef Information System (CoRIS) web site (http://www.coris.noaa.gov/).

• MPA Management Effectiveness Initiative     http://effectivempa.noaa.gov/

  Provides tools for MPA practitioners and facilitates a network for communication.  Project information and progress, MPA documents, and details of upcoming events are posted here.

• Marine Protected Areas of the United States     http://www.mpa.gov/
  What are MPAs   Become familiar with MPA terminology and international, US federal and state MPAs. Visit the virtual library or connect to various educational resources and presentations.
• MPA News: International news and analysis on Marine Protected Areas     http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/
  Keep up to date on MPA News! You can either download (http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/issues.html) or subscribe to the newsletters. You can also connect to a highly comprehensive list of professional science and conservation conferences (http://depts.washington.edu/mpanews/conflist.html).

 

Relevant Publications

• Monitoring Coral Reef Marine Protected Areas
  A practical guide on how monitoring can support effective management of MPAs (http://www.aims.gov.au/pages/reflib/mcrmpa/mcrmpa-000.html)
• Alternative approaches to marine management prove successful in reef conservation
  A discussion of McClanahan et al. "A Comparison of Marine Protected Areas and Alternative Approaches to Coral-Reef Management." Published in Current Biology 16, 1408–1413, July 25, 2006.
• Coral Reef Resilience and Resistance to Bleaching
  Gabriel D. Grimsditch and Rodney V. Salm 2005
  /docs/2005/11/coral_reef_resilience_gg-rs.pdf
• Long-term effects of the 1998 coral bleaching event on reef fish assemblages
  Garpe et al. 2006, Marine Ecology Progress Series (Vol. 315: 237-247; abstract available at www.reefbase.org)
• Assessing the effects of marine protected area (MPA) on reef fish assemblage in a northwest Mediterranean marine reserve: Identifying community-based indicators 
  Claudet et al. 2006, Biological Conservation (Vol. 130: 349-369)
• Coral decline threatens fish biodiversity in marine reserves
  Jones et al. 2004, PNAS (Vol. 101:8251-8253)
• New paradigms for supporting the resilience of marine ecosystems
  Hughes et al. 2005, Trends in Ecology and Evolution (Vol. 20: 380-386)
• Coral Reefs and the Global Network of Marine Protected Areas
  Mora et al. 2006, Science (Vol. 312: 1750-1751)
• Principles for the Design of Marine Reserves
  Botsford et al. 2003, Ecological Applications (Vol. 13: S25-S31)
• Matching marine reserve design to reserve objectives
  Halpern and Warner 2003, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London (Vol. 270: 1871-1878)
• Marine Reserve Design: Optimal Size, Habitats, Species Affinities, Diversity, and Ocean Microclimate 
  Parnell et al. 2003, Ecological Applications (Vol. 16: 945-962)

Upcoming Events

• Ecological Society of America/Society for Ecological Restoration International Joint Annual Meeting, August 5-10, 2007 , San Jose , California , USA  
• European Symposium on Marine Protected Areas, September 25-28, 2007, Murcia, Spain
• International Coral Reef Symposium, July 7-11, 2008 , Fort Lauderdale , Florida , USA
  

 

New Additions: See our Socio-Economic Resources Folder!

 

Discussion Forum

Find any of the MPA resources useful?  Share your comments, case stories, or ask questions regarding MPAs.  Feel free to post your comments and/or questions on this website.  We are looking forward to dynamic discourses and about reef resilience and MPA management.  You are welcome to submit resources for posting to the website (e.g. conference announcements, website links, publications).

Link to our Discussion Forum