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SUBMITTER: McClanahan TR
PROVIDER: S-EPMC3193203 | biostudies-literature | 2011 Oct
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
McClanahan Tim R TR Graham Nicholas A J NA MacNeil M Aaron MA Muthiga Nyawira A NA Cinner Joshua E JE Bruggemann J Henrich JH Wilson Shaun K SK
Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America 20110926 41
Sustainably managing ecosystems is challenging, especially for complex systems such as coral reefs. This study develops critical reference points for sustainable management by using a large empirical dataset on the coral reefs of the western Indian Ocean to investigate associations between levels of target fish biomass (as an indicator of fishing intensity) and eight metrics of ecosystem state. These eight ecological metrics each exhibited specific thresholds along a continuum of fishable biomas ...[more]