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SUBMITTER: Beger M
PROVIDER: S-EPMC4579602 | biostudies-literature | 2015 Sep
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Beger Maria M McGowan Jennifer J Treml Eric A EA Green Alison L AL White Alan T AT Wolff Nicholas H NH Klein Carissa J CJ Mumby Peter J PJ Possingham Hugh P HP
Nature communications 20150914
Multinational conservation initiatives that prioritize investment across a region invariably navigate trade-offs among multiple objectives. It seems logical to focus where several objectives can be achieved efficiently, but such multi-objective hotspots may be ecologically inappropriate, or politically inequitable. Here we devise a framework to facilitate a regionally cohesive set of marine-protected areas driven by national preferences and supported by quantitative conservation prioritization a ...[more]