Stuart Kininmonth

TL;DR: The results show that global conservation targets based on area alone will not optimize protection of marine biodiversity, and more emphasis is needed on better MPA design, durable management and compliance to ensure that MPAs achieve their desired conservation value.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors examined a wide range of satellite-derived SST variables to determine which one best correlated with the observed bleaching patterns, and found that the maximum SST occurring over any 3-day period (max3d) during the bleaching season predicted bleaching better than anomaly-based variables and that short averaging periods (3-6 days) predicted the presence/absence of bleaching with an accuracy of 732%

TL;DR: This study shows that the Coral Triangle, an area extending from the Philippines to the Solomon Islands, has 605 zooxanthellate corals including 15 re- gional endemics, which amounts to 76% of the world's total species complement, giving this province theWorld's highest conservation priority.

TL;DR: The findings suggest that the contribution of species diversity to a range of ecosystem functions varies over large scales, and imply that in tropical regions, which have higher numbers of species, each species contributes proportionally less to community-level ecological processes on average than species in temperate regions.

TL;DR: It is found that most shallow water marine species occupy broad thermal distributions that are aggregated in either temperate or tropical realms, which result in ocean-scale spatial thermal biases, where communities are dominated by species with warmer or cooler affinity than local environmental temperatures.