The DOI matches its Crossref record; 5 of the 5 references it cites were found in a registry or an index.
Marine reserves: size and age do matter
Abstract
Marine reserves are widely used throughout the world to prevent overfishing and conserve biodiversity, but uncertainties remain about their optimal design. The effects of marine reserves are heterogeneous. Despite theoretical findings, empirical studies have previously found no effect of size on the effectiveness of marine reserves in protecting commercial fish stocks. Using 58 datasets from 19 European marine reserves, we show that reserve size and age do matter: Increasing the size of the no‐take zone increases the density of commercial fishes within the reserve compared with outside; whereas the size of the buffer zone has the opposite effect. Moreover, positive effects of marine reserve on commercial fish species and species richness are linked to the time elapsed since the establishment of the protection scheme. The reserve size‐dependency of the response to protection has strong implications for the spatial management of coastal areas because marine reserves are used for spatial zoning.
Overview
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Integrity signals
Registry
Cites
Statistics
Verification
Claims the paper makes
The claims and statistics of this paper haven’t been checked yet.
Run the check — free, no account needed. It reads the open-access text and checks the sources it cites.
Self-check
Percentages, sums and reported differences re-computed from the paper’s own numbers.
The self-check needs the paper’s full text.
Citations
Cites
The meta-analysis of response ratios in experimental ecology
Hedges, L. V., Gurevitch, J., & Curtis, P. S. (1999) · Ecology · doi:10.1890/0012-9658(1999)080[1150:tmaorr]2.0.co;2 · Cited by 4,704
Towards sustainability in world fisheries.
Pauly, D., Christensen, V., Guénette, S., Pitcher, T. J., Sumaila, U. R., Walters, C. J., Watson, R., & Zeller, D. (2002) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature01017 · Cited by 3,019
Effectiveness of the global protected area network in representing species diversity
Rodrigues, A. S. L., Andelman, S. J., Bakarr, M. I., Boitani, L., Brooks, T. M., Cowling, R. M., Fishpool, L. D. C., da Fonseca, G. A. B., Gaston, K. J., Hoffmann, M., et al. (2004) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature02422 · Cited by 1,525
Model uncertainty, data mining and statistical inference
Chatfield, C. (1995) · Journal of the Royal Statistical Society. Series A (Statistics in Society) · doi:10.2307/2983440 · Cited by 1,103
The power of statistical tests for moderators in meta-analysis
Hedges, L. V., & Pigott, T. D. (2004) · Psychological Methods · doi:10.1037/1082-989x.9.4.426 · Cited by 672
Cited by
Global conservation outcomes depend on marine protected areas with five key features
Edgar, G. J., Stuart-Smith, R. D., Willis, T. J., Kininmonth, S., Baker, S. C., Banks, S., Barrett, N. S., Becerro, M. A., Bernard, A. T. F., Berkhout, J., et al. (2014) · Nature · doi:10.1038/nature13022 · Cited by 1,922
Biological effects within no-take marine reserves: a global synthesis
Lester, S., Halpern, B., Grorud-Colvert, K., Lubchenco, J., Ruttenberg, B., Gaines, S., Airamé, S., & Warner, R. (2009) · Marine Ecology Progress Series · doi:10.3354/meps08029 · Cited by 1,447
Designing marine reserve networks for both conservation and fisheries management
Gaines, S. D., White, C., Carr, M. H., & Palumbi, S. R. (2010) · Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences · doi:10.1073/pnas.0906473107 · Cited by 888
The MPA Guide: A framework to achieve global goals for the ocean
Grorud-Colvert, K., Sullivan-Stack, J., Roberts, C., Constant, V., Horta e Costa, B., Pike, E. P., Kingston, N., Laffoley, D., Sala, E., Claudet, J., et al. (2021) · Science · doi:10.1126/science.abf0861 · Cited by 561
Self-citationMarine renewable energy: potential benefits to biodiversity? An urgent call for research
Inger, R., Attrill, M. J., Bearhop, S., Broderick, A. C., James Grecian, W., Hodgson, D. J., Mills, C., Sheehan, E., Votier, S. C., Witt, M. J., et al. (2009) · Journal of Applied Ecology · doi:10.1111/j.1365-2664.2009.01697.x · Cited by 431
Metadata
- Authors
- Claudet, J., Osenberg, C. W., Benedetti‐Cecchi, L., Domenici, P., García‐Charton, J., Pérez‐Ruzafa, Á., Badalamenti, F., Bayle‐Sempere, J., Brito, A., Bulleri, F., Culioli, J., Dimech, M., Falcón, J. M., Guala, I., Milazzo, M., Sánchez‐Meca, J., Somerfield, P. J., Stobart, B., Vandeperre, F., Valle, C., & Planes, S.
- Venue
- Ecology Letters
- Publisher
- Wiley
- Published
- 2008-02-24
- Volume
- 11
- Issue
- 5
- Pages
- 481-489
- ISSN
- 1461-023X (ISSN-L)
- 1461-0248
- OpenAlex
- W2169828319
- Cited by
- 654
- References
- 5
- FWCI
- 32.61
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
About these checks
Registry, retraction, Cites and statistics results are computed, not judged, with one exception: a printed reference that no index lists is read once by a model before it counts as a citation error. Claims are extracted by a model and kept only when their quote appears verbatim in the text; each cited source is then checked, with a model’s help, for whether it says what the claim relies on. Those verdicts can be wrong — read the claim’s quote and the cited source before relying on one.
Statistics and arithmetic are recomputed, not judged.
Confidence bands are shown only for fields calibrated on our annotated test set. None is calibrated yet, so no band is shown.
What counts as a claim ›How we measure confidence ›How we check this ›
Are you an author, or do you see a problem with this page? Request a review
How to cite
Cite CoChat for the checks on this page, and the paper for its own findings.
- This page
- CoChat. (2026). Citation check: Marine reserves: size and age do matter. https://app.cochat.ai/papers/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01166.x
- The paper
- Claudet, J., Osenberg, C. W., Benedetti‐Cecchi, L., Domenici, P., García‐Charton, J., Pérez‐Ruzafa, Á., Badalamenti, F., Bayle‐Sempere, J., Brito, A., Bulleri, F., Culioli, J., Dimech, M., Falcón, J. M., Guala, I., Milazzo, M., Sánchez‐Meca, J., Somerfield, P. J., Stobart, B., Vandeperre, F., . . . Planes, S. (2008). Marine reserves: size and age do matter. Ecology Letters. https://doi.org/10.1111/j.1461-0248.2008.01166.x
Data sources
Bibliographic data: Semantic Scholar, OpenAlex, Crossref.
Contains information from the Semantic Scholar Academic Graph Datasets, made available under the ODC Attribution License (ODC-BY 1.0).
Semantic Scholar’s data is described in: Kinney, R., et al. (2023). The Semantic Scholar Open Data Platform. arXiv:2301.10140.
