by Mark_Costello | Aug 3, 2019 | Climate change, Marine Reserves, News, Publication
Hundreds of papers talk about the importance of connectivity in marine conservation planning. Almost all of these papers treat MPA as islands in a sea of nothingness. Some express disappointment that it is not more explicitly considered in planning Marine Protected...
by Mark_Costello | Jul 30, 2019 | News, Publication
Conservationists do not need to exaggerate the crisis facing the world’s biodiversity (Costello 2019). Almost 30,000, out of 100,000 species assessed, are threatened with extinction (IUCN Red List 2019). This is far too many and a crisis. Helpfully, we know what...
by Mark_Costello | Jun 7, 2019 | Climate change, Marine Reserves, Publication
The purpose of marine reserves is to have some places where nature can flourish without human impacts. The recovery of life with release from fishing pressure is not surprising and has been repeatedly demonstrated. The benefits to people vary with the local situation,...
by Mark_Costello | Aug 27, 2018 | Publication, Useful Stuff
It is increasingly important for scientists careers and their institutons reputations that their papers are highly cited. So what factors increase citation rates? We recently analysed citation rates of about 6,000 papers published in the journal Biological...
by Mark_Costello | Aug 16, 2018 | News, Publication
This paper provides a global context for how much environmental variables vary geographically, including with depth in the ocean. Depth profiles of temperature, oxygen, nutrients, current velocity, and seabed slope, are provided. Geographic patterns for these...
by Mark_Costello | Aug 13, 2018 | News, Publication
Dinusha Jayathilake has published a new world map of the seagrass biome. It fills significant gaps in previous maps, and thus doubles the estimated area of seagrass globally to be 1,650,000 km². However, whether seagrass still occurs at all the map locations, or has...
