Environmental representativity in marine protected area networks over large and partly unexplored seascapes

• Published in: Global Ecology and Conservation
• Main Authors: Stratoudakis, Yorgos, Hilário, Ana, Ribeiro, Cláudia, Abecasis, David, Gonçalves, Emanuel J., Andrade, Francisco, Carreira, Gilberto P., Gonçalves, Jorge Manuel Santos, Freitas, Luis, Pinheiro, Luis Menezes, Batista, Marisa I., Henriques, Miguel, Oliveira, Paulo B., Oliveira, Paulo, Afonso, Pedro, Arriegas, Pedro Ivo, Henriques, Sofia
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Elsevier 2019
• Subjects: Habitat diversity; Conservation value; Planning framework; Temperate North-east Atlantic and Macaronesia; Portugal; Iberian margin and shelf; Bia; North East Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10400.1/12660; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2019.e00545

Converting assemblages of marine protected areas (MPAs) into functional MPA networks requires political will, multidisciplinary information, coordinated action and time. We developed a new framework to assist planning environmental representativity in a network across the marine space of Portugal, r...