2021
DOI: 10.3389/fmars.2021.702071
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Through the Boundaries: Environmental Factors Affecting Reef Benthic Cover in Marine Protected Areas in the Philippines

Abstract: Philippine coral reefs have been on the decline since the 1970s, and this degradation has posed a risk to biodiversity, food security, and livelihood in the country. In an effort to arrest this degradation, marine protected areas (MPAs) were established across the country. MPAs are known to improve fish biomass, but their effect on live coral cover and other benthos is not yet well documented and understood. In this study, 28 MPAs across the Philippines were surveyed comparing benthic cover and indices between… Show more

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“…Second, Espectato, Napata & Baylon (2017) report no control values and studied MPAs that were over 93% smaller than the DIMRS SMAs. Third, Panga et al (2021) acknowledge that there were a variety of site‐specific confounders, such as storms and sedimentation. Similarly, the unprotected reefs used as controls by Russ et al (2021) experience very different regional stressors to the protected reefs and can therefore hardly be considered controls.…”
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confidence: 99%
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“…Second, Espectato, Napata & Baylon (2017) report no control values and studied MPAs that were over 93% smaller than the DIMRS SMAs. Third, Panga et al (2021) acknowledge that there were a variety of site‐specific confounders, such as storms and sedimentation. Similarly, the unprotected reefs used as controls by Russ et al (2021) experience very different regional stressors to the protected reefs and can therefore hardly be considered controls.…”
Section: Discussionmentioning
confidence: 99%
“…Strain et al, 2019). However, global and regional stressors such as climate change and storms (Panga et al, 2021; Russ et al, 2021) seem to impair a potentially regenerative effect, causing reef stasis or decline within marine reserves (Figure 2b, c), and therefore limit these benefits. Nonetheless, if full protection had not been enforced, DIMRS may well have more degraded coral reefs, as can be seen in the case of Tabon Reef (Figures 2b, c and 3b).…”
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confidence: 99%
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